FIG. 1.
Schematic displaying the DNA sequence of the first 28 amino acids of HPV16 E5WT ORF (A) and the corresponding 28-amino-acid E5XCM− mutant (B). To construct the E5XCM− HPV16 mutant, a single nucleotide, adenine, was deleted in codon 10 of the E5 ORF, disrupting the XcmI restriction site (underlined) and leading to a frameshift with a stop codon (TAA) encountered at codon 28. Only the first 10 amino acids of E5XCM− are derived from the E5 ORF.