Genetic structure of avian acute leukemia viruses.
Genetic structure of avian acute leukemia viruses.
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禽急性白血病病毒的遗传结构。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1980.044.01.086
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1980
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Duesberg,PH
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Bister,K;Duesberg,PH
Based on their oncogenic properties, avian RNA tumor viruses have been divided into several classes:(1) sarcoma viruses, which cause solid tumors of the connective tissue in the animal;(2) acute leukemia viruses, which cause rapid hematopoietic disorders and malignancies, as well as renal and hepatic tumors, including carcinomas; and (3) lymphatic leukemia viruses, which cause lymphatic leukemias usually only after long latent periods (Purchase and Burmester 1972; Hanafusa 1977; Duesberg, this volume). There are, however, broad overlaps among the oncogenic spectra of these classes of viruses, in vivo and in vitro. Both sarcoma and acute leukemia viruses can transform fibroblasts in tissue culture, some of the acute leukemia viruses cause sarcomas in the animal, and sarcoma viruses occasionally induce erythroblastic leukemia (Purchase and Burmester 1972). Transformation by RNA tumor viruses is thought to be the consequence of a unique class of genes, termed onc genes (Baltimore 1975). The onc gene of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) has been termed src (Wang et al. 1976a) to account for the predominant form of tumors induced by RSV. The definitiori and characterization of the src gene have been achieved using genetic as well as biochemical procedures. All of these approaches led to the unequivocal identification of a gene with a complexity of about 1500 nucleotides, which is located near the 3'end of viral RNA (Martin 1970; Wang et al. 1975; St6helin et al. 1976). src is not needed for viral replication and its deletion gives rise to transformation-defective (td) mutants (Vogt 1971; Martin and Duesberg 1972). In genetic crosses, src segregates with transforming function (Wang et al. 1976b). The src-gene product has a molecular weight (mw) of 60,000 and is thought to function as a phosphokinase (Brugge and Erikson 1977; Erikson et al.; Bishop et al.; both this volume). Since the avian acute leukemia viruses, including avian erythroblastosis virus (AEV), avian myelocytomatosis viruses MC29 and CMII, Mill Hill virus no. 2 (MH2), and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV), cause characteristic diseases very rapidly usually within days or weeks, it is reasonable to assume that they, like the sarcoma viruses, contain specific genetic information responsible for transformation, ie, onc genes, and that these specific sequences code for transformationspecific proteins. Because of the extensive defectiveness of the acute leukemia viruses in all three genes essential for replication of RNA tumor viruses, gag,/9ol, and env (Ishizaki and Shimizu 1970; Ishizaki et al. 1971; Bister et al. 1977; Bister and Vogt 1978), genetic and biochemical approaches using deletion and recombination analyses for the definition of onc genes cannot as yet be applied (Duesberg, this volume). However, biochemical analyses of the RNAs of several strains of aviafi acute leukemia viruses reveal a characteristic genetic structure. The RNA of a typical acute leukemia virus measures about 6 kilobases (kb) and contains two sets of nucleotide sequences: one represents about 40-60% of the RNA, which is specific for the defective virus; the other represents the remainder of the RNA, which is group-specific and related to nondefective members of the avian tumor virus group (Duesberg et al. 1977a; Mellon et al. 1978).Specific and group-specific sequences are distinguished basically by two methods. The first method utilizes hybridization of defective viral RNA with cDNA of nondefective viruses to measure groupspecific sequences, and with defective virus-specific cDNA to measure specific sequences; the second method compares RNase-Tl-resistant oligonucleotides of defective viral …