Extrachromosomal Amplification of Human Papillomavirus Episomes as a Mechanism of Cervical Carcinogenesis
Rossi, N. M.; Dai, J.; Xie, Y.; Lou, H.; Boland, J. F.; Yeager, M.; Orozco, R.; Alvirez, E.; Mirabello, L.; Gharzouzi, E.; Dean, M.
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Integration of Human Papillomaviruses (HPV) is an important mechanism of carcinogenesis but is absent in a significant fraction of HPV16+ tumors. We applied long-read whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to cervical cancer cell lines and tumors. In two HPV16+ cell lines, we identified large tandem arrays of full-length and truncated viral genomes integrated into multiple locations indicating formation as extrachromosomal DNA (HPV superspreading). An HPV16+ cell line with episomal DNA has tandem arrays of full-length, truncated, and rearranged HPV16 genomes (multimer episomes). WGS of HPV16+ cervical tumors revealed that 11/20 with only episomal HPV (EP) have intact monomer episomes. The remaining nine EP tumors have multimer and rearranged HPV genomes. Most HPV rearrangements disrupt the E1 and E2 genes, and EP tumors overexpress the E6 and E7 viral oncogenes. Tumors with both episomal and integrated HPV16 display multimer episomes and concatemers of human and viral sequences. One tumor has a recurrent deletion of an inhibitory site regulating E6 and E7 expression, and another has a recurrent duplication consistent with HPV superspreading. Therefore, HPV16 can cause cancer without integration through aberrant episomal replication, forming rearranged and multimer episomes.
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