CD209 and cervical carcinoma: Transfection of cervical carcinoma epithelial (HeLa) cells with a plasmid encoding CD209, the gene encoding DC-SIGN, resulted in a marked increase in CD209 transcription levels detected by quantitative real-time PCR (Fig. 3D) and significantly increased binding of live S. Typhi detected in an adhesion assay (Fig. 3E).