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M Favre

Publications and source records attributed to M Favre.

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PubMed1977

Chromatin-like structures obtained after alkaline disruption of bovine and human papillomaviruses.

Four low-molecular-weight polypeptides migrating like H2a, H2b, H3, and H4 calf liver histones were detected by sodium dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gel electrophoresis of highly purified preparations of bovine papillomavirus (BPV) and human papillomavirus (HPV). Complexes of these polypeptides and viral DNA were isolated by agarose-gel filtration of the alkaline disruption products of both viruses. When observed under the electron microscope, these complexes appeared as circular structures composed of nucleosomes with a diameter of about 8.0 nm interconnected by a naked DNA filament. The maximal frequency of nucleosomes per molecule was 30 for both viruses, corresponding to a condensation ratio of the viral DNA of 2.5.

Bovine papillomavirus 1↗
PubMed1977

Human papillomavirus DNA: physical mapping of the cleavage sites of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BamI) and Haemophilus parainfluenzae (HpaII) endonucleases and evidence for partial heterogeneity.

The DNA of human papillomavirus (HPV) obtained from a pool of plantar warts is cleaved by bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BamI) and Haemophilus parainfluenzae (HpaII) restriction endonucleases at one and four specific sites, respectively. These sites were localized on the previously established cleavage map of HPV DNA, using the Hind, HindIII, HpaI, and EcoRI endonuclease restriction sites as reference. The four HpaII sites were mapped, clockwise, at 1.4, 41.1, 44.3, and 52.8% of the genome length from the unique BamI cleavage site taken as point zero. The HpaII site mapped at 1.4% of the genome length was absent in 40 to 50% of the molecules, thus showing a genetic heterogeneity of HPV DNA.

Bacillus↗
PubMed1977

Characterization of a new type of human papillomavirus that causes skin warts.

A human papillomavirus (HPV) was isolated from the lesions of a patient (ML) bearing numerous hand common warts. This virus was compared with the well-characterized HPV found in typical plantar warts (plantar HPV). ML and plantar HPV DNAs have similar molecular weights (5.26 x 10(6) and 5.23 x 10(6), respectively) but were shown to be different by restriction enzyme analysis. When the cleavage products of both DNAs by endonuclease EcoRI, BamI, HpaI, or Hind were analyzed by electron microscopy, one, two, one, and four fragments were detected for ML HPV DNA instead of the two, one, two, and six fragments, respectively, detected for plantar HPV DNA. In contrast to plantar HPV DNA, a high proportion of ML HPV DNA molecules were resistant to these restriction enzymes. Most, if not all, of the molecules were either resistant to BamI and sensitive to EcoRI or sensitive to BamI and resistant to EcoRI. After denaturation and renaturation of the cleavage products of ML HPV DNA by a mixture of the two enzymes, the circular "heteroduplexes" formed showed one to three heterology loops corresponding to about 4 to 8% of the genome length. No sequence homology was detected between ML and plantar HPV DNAs by cRNA-DNA filter hybridization, by measuring the reassociation kinetics of an iodinated plantar HPV DNA in the presence of a 25-fold excess of ML HPV DNA, or by the heteroduplex technique. The two viruses had distinct electrophoretic polypeptide patterns and showed no antigenic cross-reaction by immunodiffusion or immunofluorescence techniques. Preliminary cRNA-DNA hybridization experiments, using viral DNAs from single or pooled plantar or hand warts, suggest that hand common warts are associated with viruses similar or related to ML HPV. The existence of at least two distinct types of HPVs that cause skin warts was demonstrated; they were provisionally called HPV type 1 and HPV type 2, with plantar HPV and ML HPV as prototypical viruses, respectively.

Antigens, Viral↗
PubMed1977

A human immunoglobulin in myeloma protein with anti-gastric parietal cell autoantigen activity.

A previously characterised IgA Kappa myeloma protein was isolated and purified. The (Fab) alpha fragments of this immunoglobulin were obtained. The IgA and Fab fragments reacted in vitro with gastric parietal cells (GPC) using animal gastric sections and with smooth cytoplasmic membranes obtained from rabbit fundus (gastric) mucosa. This was seen macroscopically and by light and electron microscopy. Evidence is thus provided which supports the concept that this homogeneous immunoglobulin is a typical monoclonal autoantibody.

Autoantibodies↗
PubMed1976

[Hepatic schistosomiasis and sarcoidosis with voluminous subdiaphragmatic adenopathies].

The authors report a case of a West-Indian with sarcoidosis and peripheral, mediastinal and, above all, sub-diaphragmatic lymph nodes. The latter were very large and palpable through the abdomen, confirmed by lymphography and found to be due to S. Mansomi schistosomiasis. Liver biopsy carried out under peritoneoscopy, showed schistosomal granulomatosis with sarcoidosic granulomatosis. The authors consider that the rareness of this association is only apparent and does not correspond to the frequency of bilharziasis nor that of sarcoidosis in these subjects. They emphasize the mistakes which may result in interpretation of liver biopsy. They recall a few special characteristics of sarcoidosis in West-Indians, in particular, the possibility of failure of corticosteroid therapy as in their case, due to the onset of miliary lung disease under treatment, and show the lymphographic appearances of sarcoidosis.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

[Practical and theoretical viewpoints in computer-analysis of data from colposcopy,, cytology and histopathology (author's transl)].

In collaboration with the IBM (Basel) a computer program was developed for the analysis of data from cytology, colposcopy and histopathology. Due to the general way of formulation the program-system is applicabel for every kind of problem in natural sciences as well as economics. It is written in FORTRAN. Until now 15 parametric and non-parametric statistical tests are available for the analysis of descriptive or analytical statistical questions. The amount of data to be analyzed is nearly unlimited. Several plot-routines incorporated in the program serve for graphical presentation of distributions of different variables, of scatter-diagrams and computed functions. The internal control of the statistical monitor including the report card-system and the syntax of the input orders (with generation of error messages) are shortly explained. In a sample of 251 random selected patients showing pathological signes of the portio uteri from the department of gynecology of the university Basel the way of working of some subroutines is demonstrated and some general principles of data-acquisition and data-management in medicine are outlined.

Cervix Uteri↗
PubMed1975

[Induction of cutaneous or subcutaneous fibroblastic tumors in the Afghan pika (Ochotona rufescens rufescens) by injection or bovine papilloma virus].

Newborn Afghan pikas have been inoculated with bovine papilloma virus via the subcutaneous route. Cutaneous or subcutaneous fibromas and fibrosarcomas were observed after a mean incubation period of nine months. The transmission of these tumors by homograft has been obtained. Bovine papilloma virus antibodies have been demonstrated in most of the animals inoculated at birth. They have not been detected in animals bearing transplanted tumors.

Animals↗
PubMed1975

Human papillomavirus DNA: physical map.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA form I (supercoiled) was prepared from plantar warts. HPV DNA was cleaved with restriction enzymes obtained from the following sources: escherichia coli (EcoRI), Hemophilus influenzae strain Rd (both unfractionated Hind and aeparated HindII and HindIII enzymes) and Hemophilus parainfluenzae (HpaI). The cleavage products were analyzed by polyacrylamide gradient slab gel electrophoresis and electron microscopy. HPV DNA was cleaved into two fragments by EcoRI (87% and 13% of the genome) and into six fragments, ranging in size from 33.5 to 1.2% of the genome, by Hind endonucleases. The six Hind fragments result from the cleavage of three sequences recognized by HindII, two of which are also cleaved by HpaI, and of three sequence recognized by HindIII. The order of these fragments was determined by comparing their size with that of the fragments obtained with HindII, HindIII, HpaI, and the mixture of HindIII + Hpal. The two EcoRI cleavage sites were located on two adjacent Hind fragments and one of these sites has been taken for the zero point to construct a physical map. The treatment of superhelical HPV DNA with bacteriophage T4 gene 32 protein yields circular structures with a denaturation loop. The cleavage of these complexes with EcoRI and HindIII has shown two easily denatured regions which were located on the cleavage map.

Binding Sites↗
PubMed1975

Structural polypeptides of rabbit, bovine, and human papillomaviruses.

The number and apparent molecular weight of the structural polypeptides of Shope rabbit papilloma virus (RPV), bovine papilloma virus (BPV), and human papilloma virus (HPV) were estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Up to 10 polypeptides were detected in highly purified BPV and HPV full particles; a close homology was found between the polypeptide composition of both viruses. Purified RPV virions gave a similar polypeptide pattern. The main components of the three papillomaviruses are the major polypeptide (VP1) with a mol wt of approximately 54,000 and the three smaller polypeptides (VP8, 9, 10) with mol wt of about 16,500, 15,500 and 12,500, respectively. VP8, VP9, and VP10 are never detected in empty capsids. When BPV virions were disrupted with alkaline buffer, the six lower-molecular-weight polypeptides (VP5 to 10) remained associated with viral DNA. This suggests that they are internal components of the virions and that the four higher-molecular-weight polypeptides (VP1 to 4) may represent external components. The polypeptide compositions of BPV and polyoma virus, another papovavirus, have been compared. The number of BPV and polyoma virus components (10 and 6, respectively) and the molecular weight of their major polypeptide (54,000 and 44,500, respectively) are different; however, the three main DNA-associated polypeptides of BPV (VP8, 9, 10) and the three histone-like components of polyoma virus (VP4, 5, 6) were shown to have identical apparent molecular weights. The possibility that some of the minor components of papillomaviruses may be proteolytic degradation products or cell protein contaiminants is discussed.

Animals↗