Study of papillomavirus DNA encapsidation and formation of infectious virions

乳头瘤病毒（PV）是一种性传播病毒，是宫颈癌的主要病因。我们的研究将确定PV如何能够在感染细胞内形成新的病毒颗粒。这是病毒生命周期的关键部分，更好地了解这一过程可能会使抗病毒治疗成为悲剧。此外，我们将开发一种方法来制造无害的病毒颗粒，我们将用它来研究人类对病毒的免疫反应。

Papillomavirus (PV) is a sexually-transmitted virus that is a major cause of cervical cancer. Our study will determine how PV is able to form new virus particles inside infected cells. This is a critical part of the virus life-cycle, and a better understanding of this process may allow it to be trageted by anti-viral treatments. In addition, we will develop a method to create non-harmful virus particles which we will use to study human immune responses to the virus.