THE STUDY OF THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ONCOGENIC VIRUSES

The problem of origin and the fight against cancer today is one of the most important. Since the discovery of oncogenic viruses, the world scientific community has long been working on studying the mechanisms of their action. In 1948, the Soviet virologist L.A. Zilber formulated the virus-genetic theory of cancer. The main provision of this theory was the assumption that tumor modification of cells occurs as a result of association its genetic material with new genetic information of oncogenic viruses. In the 70-ies of XX century, Italian scientist Renato Dulbecco in the works for the study of polyoma virus and monkey virus SV40 has proved all of the theories formulated by L. A. Zilber. Ключевые слова: вирус, клеточная трансформация