Transcriptional products and DNA structure of endogenous avian proviruses.
Transcriptional products and DNA structure of endogenous avian proviruses.
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内源禽原病毒的转录产物和 DNA 结构。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1980.044.01.120
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发表时间:
1980
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Astrin,SM
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作者:
Hayward,WS;Braverman,SB;Astrin,SM
DNA sequences closely related to Rous-associated virus-0 (RAV-0) are present in the chromosomal material of most uninfected chicken cells (Rosenthal et al. 1971; Baluda 1972; Varmus et al. 1972; Neiman 1973). Although the amount of endogenous viral DNA in cells from different embryos is fairly constant (usually about 2-6 copies/cell), the level of proviral gene expression varies by as much as 500-fold (Payne and Chubb 1968; Weiss and Payne 1971; Hanafusa et al. 1972; Hayward and Hanafusa 1973). The patterns of expression are genetically determined (for review, see Robinson 1978), but little is known about the mechanism that regulates this expression. Cells from different embryos can be classified into several distinct phenotypes based on their content of viral group-specific (gs) antigen and chick helper factor (chf)(Payne and Chubb 1968; Weiss and Payne 1971; Hanafusa et al. 1972; Hanafusa et al. 1974), products of the gag and env genes, respectively. The levels of virus-specific RNA accumulating in cells of each phenotype correlate with the levels of gs antigen and/or chf, suggesting that expression is controlled at the level of transcription, or, possibly, mRNA processing and turnover (Hayward and Hanafusa 1973, 1976). Qualitative differences in the RNA transcripts have also been observed (Wang et al. 1977). In gs+ chf+ cells, for example, the major species of viral RNA is deleted within a substantial portion of the pol gene and part of the gag gene. The gag-pol polyprotein in these cells is missing most of the polymerase tryptic peptides and all of the p15 peptides OEisenman et al. 1978).The identification of independently segregating endogenous proviruses (Astrin 1978; Astrin et al., this volume) has helped to clarify the genetic basis of the phenotypic differences described above. More than ten distinct proviruses, differing in their chromosomal site of residence, have been identified by restriction endonuclease analysis of DNA from white leghorn chickens. These proviruses have been designated endogenous viral (ev) loci, and each locus has been assigned an identifying number. The characteristic patterns of gs antigen and chf expression correlate with the presence of specific endogenous loci (see Table 1).