INCREASED H-2DD EXPRESSION FOLLOWING INFECTION BY A MOLECULARLY CLONED ECOTROPIC MULV

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BROWN, GD
EGAN, G
DOWLING, T
MERUELO, D
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[1] Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York, 10016, NY
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10.1007/BF00661219
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
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The biological consequences of radiation leukemia virus (RadLV) infection include the stimulation of H-2Dd antigen expression in resistant mouse strains and thymoma induction in susceptible strains. In an effort to understand the genetic basis of these phenomena, the integrated ecotropic RadLV genome has been examined in a number of primary RadLV-induced tumors, as well as thymomas adapted to in vitro passage; considerable heterogeneity was observed. Examination of these polymorphic viral sequences should help define the viral gene(s) involved in the biological effects of RadLV infection; toward this end, integrated RadLV genomes were molecularly cloned and examined. The genomes and their flanking sequence were characterized by restriction enzyme analysis. Three unique viral genomes were obtained which represent four integration sites. The three RadLV genomes are shown to carry polymorphisms of the original tumor. Following DNA transfection, one of the three genomes replicated in and reinfected both mouse thymocytes and fibroblasts, but not mink fibroblasts in vitro. Virus encoded by the other two DNA genomes could not be recovered following transfection into any of the three cell types. One of these two apparently defective retroviruses encodes a truncated p15E molecule, while the other has elongated long terminal repeats (LTRs). The non-defective ecotropic isolate was collected from in vitro tissue culture supernatants, concentrated, and used to infect mice. Thymocytes of infected, resistant mice were shown to express elevated levels of H-2Dd antigen as early as 12 days post infection, a hallmark of RadLV infection. © 1990 Springer-Verlag.
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