PURIFICATION AND TRANSLATION OF MURINE MAMMARY-TUMOR VIRUS MESSENGER-RNAS
PURIFICATION AND TRANSLATION OF MURINE MAMMARY-TUMOR VIRUS MESSENGER-RNAS
复制标题
DOI:
10.1128/jvi.39.1.207-218.1981
复制
发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
VARMUS, HE
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
DUDLEY, JP;VARMUS, HE
The functions of the intracellular RNA of mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) were studied by purification and translation in vitro. Two major size classes of MMTV RNA, 35 and 24S RNA, were isolated from MMTV-infected rat [sarcoma] (XC) cells and cultured [mouse] mammary tumor cells by preparative hybridization of whole cell or polyadenylated RNA to cloned MMTV DNA covalently bound to chemically activated paper disks (diazobenzyloxymethyl paper). Genomic-length (35S) RNA was prepared free of 24S RNA by annealing to a 4-kilobase PstI fragment apparently deficient in sequences homologous to 24S RNA; the 24S species was separated from 35S RNA by rate zonal sedimentation in sucrose gradients. Experiments using [3H]uridine-labeled cellular RNA indicated that the preparative annealing method was highly specific and capable of effecting a 300-fold enrichment for viral RNA; the recovered RNA appeared to be intact under denaturing conditions and directed synthesis of full-length gag and env polypeptides in vitro. The products of in vitro translation were identified by gel mobility, immunoprecipitation tests with rabbit antisera against gag and env products and partial digestion with Staphylococcus V8 protease. The 35S RNA species directed synthesis of several gag-related polypeptides, including 3 previously reported in extracts of infected cells; 24S RNA directed synthesis of 2 polypeptides closely related to env proteins from infected cells. Thus 35S RNA includes mRNA for gag and gag-pol; 24S RNA is the mRNA for env. These results help establish the position of env on the physical map of the MMTV genome and bear upon the coding potential of the genome.