ESTABLISHMENT OF A CELL LINE INFECTED WITH SRS MOUSE LEUKEMIA VIRUS AND ITS BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

<正> NIH/3T3 cells were infected with a cell-free extract from the mouse SRS ascltic tumor and propagated at vitro. Experimental results showed that type A and type C virus particles were observed in the cytoplasm of infected NIH/ 3T3 cells by electron-microscopy, X-C assay and reverse transcriptase were both positive. Free proviral-DN A of the leukemia vims was found in the infected NIH/3T3 cell by Southern blot hybridization.Morphologically, the NIH/3T3 cells infected in vitro appeared spherical and formed monolayer cell colonies of various sizes after 24 - 48 hours. When the cultured cells were Inoculated into nude mice (BALB/ c, nu nu ) subcutaneously, flbrosarcoma was Induced, 100%. Inoculation of the cell-free extract of the same cultured cells into Inbred SW-1 newborn mice, resulted in the production of lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoma in 52. 3% within 191 days.