GENOMES OF MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUSES ISOLATED FROM WILD MICE
GENOMES OF MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUSES ISOLATED FROM WILD MICE
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DOI:
10.1128/jvi.39.3.777-791.1981
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
LOWY, DR
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作者:
CHATTOPADHYAY, SK;OLIFF, AI;LOWY, DR
The genomes of murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) isolated from wild mice were studied. Detailed restriction endonuclease maps of the 8.8-kilobase (kb) unintegrated linear viral DNA were derived for 5 ecotropic and 5 amphotropic MuLV from California [USA] field mice, for Friend MuLV and for 1 ecotropic and 1 xenotropic MuLV from Mus musculus castaneus. In general, the California MuLV were similar in their leftward 6 kb (corresponding to the leftward long terminal repeat [LTR], gag and pol) and rightward 1 kb (7.8-8.8 kb, corresponding to p15E and the rightward LTR). For the region spanning 6.0-7.7 kb (which includes the sequences that encode gp70) the amphotropic MuLV shared few enzyme sites with the ecotropic MuLV although the California ecotropic MuLV were highly related to each other in this region, as were the amphotropic MuLV. Cross-hybridization studies between amphotropic and California ecotropic MuLV DNA indicated that they were not homologous in the region 6.3-7.6 kb; the California ecotropic viral DNA cross-hybridized in this region to AKR ecotropic MuLV. When the California viral DNA were comapred with AKR ecotropic viral DNA, many differences in enzyme sites were noted throughout the genome. The U3 regions of the wild mouse LTR showed partial homology to this region in AKR MuLV. The LTR of Moloney MuLV was highly related to that of the California MuLV; the LTR of Friend MuLV appeared to be a recombinant between the 2 types of LTR. The M. musculus castaneus isolates were most closely related to ecotropic and xenotropic MuLV isolated from inbred mice. One amphotropic MuLV DNA was cloned from supercoiled viral DNA at its unique EcoRI site in pBR322. Viral DNA with 1 and 2 LTR were isolated. After digestion with EcoRI, DNA of both types were infectious. Ecotropic and amphotropic MuLV apparently differ primarily in the region which encodes gp70.