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Voisin V, Rassart E. Complete genome sequences of the two viral variants of the Graffi MuLV: Phylogenetic relationship with other murine leukemia retroviruses. Virology 2007; 361:335-47. [PMID: 17208267 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.10.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2006] [Revised: 10/03/2006] [Accepted: 10/28/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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A detailed phylogenetic analysis of two variants of the Graffi murine retrovirus, GV-1.2 and GV-1.4, showed that they are closely related to SRS 19-6 and Moloney MuLVs. Two stretches of sequence testify to the divergence between Graffi and SRS 19-6 MuLVs, one corresponding to a recombination event of Graffi MuLV with a xenotropic virus. Moloney MuLV was found more distant, particularly in the GAG region. Our study encompasses every class of MuLVs (ecotropic, amphotropic, xenotropic, polytropic) with some focus on exogenous ecotropic viruses and further adds to previous phylogenetic studies. Graffi, SRS 19-6, Moloney, Friend and Rauscher MuLVs form a cluster that appears to share a common ancestor with the Casitas-amphotropic and -ecotropic MuLVs but are more distant to the Akv-type and xenotropic MuLVs. The analysis also revealed that the ENV region of HEMV, the prototype of the MuLV ancestor, was closely related to the corresponding region of Cas-Br-E.
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Affiliation(s)
- Véronique Voisin
- Laboratoire de biologie moléculaire, Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case Postale 8888 Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada H3C-3P8
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Zavorotinskaya T, Albritton LM. A hydrophobic patch in ecotropic murine leukemia virus envelope protein is the putative binding site for a critical tyrosine residue on the cellular receptor. J Virol 1999; 73:10164-72. [PMID: 10559332 PMCID: PMC113069 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.12.10164-10172.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the receptor for ecotropic murine leukemia viruses, tyrosine 235 contributes a critical hydrophobic side chain to the virus-receptor interaction (14). Here we report that tryptophan 142 in ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus envelope protein is essential to virus binding and infection. Replacement of tryptophan 142 by alanine or serine resulted in misfolding. However, replacement by methionine (W142M) allowed correct folding of the majority of glycoprotein molecules. W142M virus showed a marked reduction in virus binding and was almost noninfectious, suggesting that tryptophan 142 is involved in receptor binding. In contrast, W142Y virus containing a replacement of tryptophan 142 with an aromatic residue (tyrosine) was as efficient as wild-type virus in infection and binding of cells expressing the wild-type receptor. However, W142Y virus was 100-fold less efficient than wild-type virus in infection of cells expressing a mutant receptor containing tryptophan instead of the critical tyrosine. These results strongly support tryptophan 142 being an essential residue on the virus envelope protein that interacts directly with the critical hydrophobic residue at position 235 of the ecotropic receptor. Tryptophan 142 forms one side of a shallow hydrophobic pocket on the surface of the envelope protein, suggesting that it might comprise the complete putative binding site for tyrosine 235. We discuss the implications of our findings with respect to two models of the envelope protein trimer. Interestingly, both models place tryptophan 142 at the interface between adjacent subunits of the trimer.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3 Cells
- Alanine/genetics
- Alanine/physiology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Friend murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Friend murine leukemia virus/metabolism
- Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Glycoproteins/genetics
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Glycoproteins/physiology
- Humans
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Methionine/genetics
- Mice
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/metabolism
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Phenylalanine/genetics
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Receptors, Virus/genetics
- Receptors, Virus/metabolism
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/biosynthesis
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/genetics
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/metabolism
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/physiology
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tryptophan/genetics
- Tryptophan/metabolism
- Tryptophan/physiology
- Tyrosine/genetics
- Tyrosine/metabolism
- Viral Envelope Proteins/biosynthesis
- Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
- Viral Envelope Proteins/metabolism
- Viral Envelope Proteins/physiology
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Affiliation(s)
- T Zavorotinskaya
- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA
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Laassri M, Gul'ko L, Vinokurova S, Kisseljova N, Veiko V, Kisseljov F. Cloning of E6 and E7 genes of human papilloma virus type 18 and transformation potential of E7 gene and its mutants. Virus Genes 1999; 18:139-49. [PMID: 10403700 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008020719309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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E6 and E7 genes of human papilloma virus type 18 have been subcloned from plasmid pC7, carrying an insert of DNA from squamous cell carcinoma of cervix. Both genes in comparison to prototype variant contain one mutation that changes asparagine to leucine. In the case of E6 gene this mutation is mapped in codon 129, in the case of E7 the same change AAC to AAA mapped in codon 92. In addition both genes contain few point mutations that do not change the aminoacid sequences of the protein. Two mutants of E7 gene have been constructed by site directed mutagenesis based on PCR technology-one in codon 10 (change Asp to Asn) and one in codon 24 (change Asp to Gly). The first type of mutation did not influence the transformation potential of the E7 gene in comparison to the parental one with mutation in codon 92. The mutation in codon 24 (region responsible for the interaction with Rb protein) eliminate the transformation potential of the gene. The cells transformed with E7 mutants in codons 10 and 92 were tumorigenic for syngenic rats.
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- M Laassri
- Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow State Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Microorganisms
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The complete nucleotide sequence of the genome of Solid-type Reticulum cell Sarcoma 19-6 murine leukemia virus (SRS 19-6 MuLV) was determined. This virus was isolated in mainland China from laboratory mice that had been separated from western mice since the 1930s. The genome is 8,256 nucleotides in length and exhibits a genetic organization characteristic of replication competent MuLVs. Phylogenies constructed from reverse transcriptase (RT) domains showed that SRS 19-6 MuLV is closely related to other MuLV-related retroviruses; however, it has clearly diverged from previously isolated MuLVs. Comparative sequence analysis of the env sequences indicated that SRS 19-6 MuLV encodes a surface (SU) glycoprotein that is related to other ecotropic MuLVs in the VR-A and VR-B variable regions. However, SRS 19-6 MuLV env glycoprotein was distinct from all other MuLVs (ecotropic and non-ecotropic) in the proline-rich hypervariable region. No evidence for recombination with endogenous MuLV env sequences in generation of SRS 19-6 MuLV was observed. Comparisons of long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences revealed that the GV 1.4 molecular clone of Graffi MuLV contained 96% sequence identity to SRS 19-6 MuLV's LTR with 99% identity when comparisons were restricted to the U3 regions of the two viruses. The consensus enhancer binding motifs contained in the U3 regions of the two viruses were nearly identical. Nevertheless the two viruses have previously been shown to induce distinct patterns of disease. Comparisons between 196 and Graffi GV1.4 MuLVs may provide insights into the mechanisms of disease specificity induced by MuLVs.
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- L M Bundy
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine 92697, USA
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Kayman SC, Park H, Saxon M, Pinter A. The hypervariable domain of the murine leukemia virus surface protein tolerates large insertions and deletions, enabling development of a retroviral particle display system. J Virol 1999; 73:1802-8. [PMID: 9971757 PMCID: PMC104419 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.1802-1808.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/1998] [Accepted: 12/04/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The surface proteins (SU) of murine type-C retroviruses have a central hypervariable domain devoid of cysteine and rich in proline. This 41-amino-acid region of Friend ecotropic murine leukemia virus SU was shown to be highly tolerant of insertions and deletions. Viruses in which either the N-terminal 30 amino acids or the C-terminal 22 amino acids of this region were replaced by the 7-amino-acid sequence ASAVAGA were fully infectious. Insertions of this 7-amino-acid sequence at the N terminus, center, and the C terminus of the hypervariable domain had little effect on envelope protein (Env) function, while this insertion at a position 10 amino acids following the N terminus partially destabilized the association between the SU and transmembrane subunits of Env. Large, complex domains (either a 252-amino-acid single-chain antibody binding domain [scFv] or a 96-amino-acid V1/V2 domain of HIV-1 SU containing eight N-linked glycosylation sites and two disulfides) did not interfere with Env function when inserted in the center or C-terminal portions of the hypervariable domain. The scFv domain inserted into the C-terminal region of the hypervariable domain was shown to mediate binding of antigen to viral particles, demonstrating that it folded into the active conformation and was displayed on the surface of the virion. Both positive and negative enrichment of virions expressing the V1/V2 sequence were achieved by using a monoclonal antibody specific for a conformational epitope presented by the inserted sequence. These results indicated that the hypervariable domain of Friend ecotropic SU does not contain any specific sequence or structure that is essential for Env function and demonstrated that insertions into this domain can be used to extend particle display methodologies to complex protein domains that require expression in eukaryotic cells for glycosylation and proper folding.
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- S C Kayman
- Laboratory of Retroviral Biology, Public Health Research Institute, New York, New York 10016, USA.
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Khimani AH, Lim M, Graf TG, Smith TF, Ruprecht RM. Phylogenetic relationship of the complete Rauscher murine leukemia virus genome with other murine leukemia virus genomes. Virology 1997; 238:64-7. [PMID: 9375009 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We report the complete nucleotide sequence of the genome of Rauscher murine leukemia virus (R-MuLV), the replication-competent helper virus present in the Rauscher virus complex, and its phylogenetic relationship with other murine leukemia virus genomes. An overall sequence identity of 97.6% was found between R-MuLV and the Friend helper virus (F-MuLV), and the two viruses were closely related on the phylogenetic trees constructed from either gag, pol, or env sequences. Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MuLV) was the next closest relative to R-MuLV and F-MuLV on all trees, followed by Akv and radiation leukemia virus (RadLV). The most distantly related helper virus was Hortulanus murine leukemia virus (Ho-MuLV). Interestingly, Cas-Br-E branched with Mo-MuLV on the gag and pol trees, whereas on the env tree, it revealed the highest degree of relatedness to Ho-MuLV, possibly due to an ancient recombination with an Ho-MuLV ancestor. In summary, a phylogenetic analysis involving various MuLVs has been performed, in which the postulated close relationship between R-MuLV and F-MuLV has been confirmed, consistent with the pathobiology of the two viruses.
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- A H Khimani
- Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Yefenof E, Kotler M. Radiation leukemia virus-induced leukemogenesis: a paradigm of preleukemia and its control by preventive therapy. Adv Cancer Res 1995; 66:293-312. [PMID: 7793318 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60258-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- E Yefenof
- Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Sen-Majumdar A, Weissman IL, Hansteen G, Marian J, Waller EK, Lieberman M. Radiation leukemia virus-induced thymic lymphomas express a restricted repertoire of T-cell receptor V beta gene products. J Virol 1994; 68:1165-72. [PMID: 8289345 PMCID: PMC236555 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.2.1165-1172.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We have investigated the phenotypic changes that take place during the process of neoplastic transformation in the thymocytes of C57BL/Ka mice infected by the radiation leukemia virus (RadLV). By the combined use of antibodies against the envelope glycoprotein gp70 of RadLV, the transformation-associated cell surface marker 1C11, and the CD3-T-cell receptor (TCR) complex, we found that in the RadLV-infected thymus, the earliest expression of viral gp70 is in 1C11hi cells; a small but significant percentage of these cells also express CD3. A first wave of viral replication, manifested by the expression of high levels of gp70 in thymocytes (over 70% positive), reaches a peak at 2 weeks; during this period, no significant changes are observed in the expression of 1C11 or CD3. The population of gp70+ cells is drastically reduced at 3 to 4 weeks after infection. However, a second cohort of gp70+ cells appears after 4 weeks, and these cells express high levels of 1C11 and TCR determinants as well. RadLV-induced lymphomas differ from normal thymocytes in their CD4 CD8 phenotype, with domination by one or more subsets. Characterization of TCR gene rearrangements in RadLV-induced lymphomas shows that most of these tumors are clonal or oligoclonal with respect to the J beta 2 TCR gene, while the J beta 1 TCR gene is rearranged in a minority (4 of 11) of lymphomas. TCR V beta repertoire analysis of 12 tumors reveals that 6 (50%) express exclusively the V beta 6 gene product, 2 (17%) are V beta 5+, and 1 (8%) each are V beta 8+ and V beta 9+. In normal C57BL/Ka mice, V beta 6 is expressed on 12%, V beta 5 is expressed on 9%, V beta 8 is expressed on 22%, and V beta 9 is expressed on 4% of TCRhi thymocytes. Thus, it appears that RadLV-induced thymic lymphomas are not randomly selected with respect to expressed TCR V beta type.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/analysis
- CD3 Complex/analysis
- CD4 Antigens/analysis
- CD8 Antigens/analysis
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Leukemia, Experimental/immunology
- Leukemia, Experimental/microbiology
- Lymphoma/immunology
- Lymphoma/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Radiation Leukemia Virus/growth & development
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Retroviridae Infections/immunology
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/analysis
- Selection, Genetic
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Neoplasms/immunology
- Thymus Neoplasms/microbiology
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
- Viral Envelope Proteins/analysis
- Virus Replication
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- A Sen-Majumdar
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5468
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Gaskins HR, Prochazka M, Hamaguchi K, Serreze DV, Leiter EH. Beta cell expression of endogenous xenotropic retrovirus distinguishes diabetes-susceptible NOD/Lt from resistant NON/Lt mice. J Clin Invest 1993; 90:2220-7. [PMID: 1361492 PMCID: PMC443372 DOI: 10.1172/jci116107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Endogeneous retroviral expression in beta cells is a feature of prediabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. The purpose of this study was to characterize the class-specific pattern of retroviral gene expression in NOD/Lt beta cells versus a related, but diabetes-resistant strain, NON/Lt. Electron microscopic comparison of beta cells from both strains indicated low constitutive expression of the intracisternal type A (IAP) retroviral class. However, NOD beta cells, in contrast to NON beta cells, expressed an additional intracisternal retroviral form resembling a type C particle. Antibodies against both IAP and type C were detected in NOD, with the humoral response to type C, but not IAP, preceding decline in beta cell function. RNA was extracted from freshly isolated islets from NOD and NON males. Comparative Northern blot analysis of total type C retroviral gene expression using a gag-pol DNA probe corroborated expression of endogenous type C proviruses in both NOD and NON islet cells and thymus. Use of class-specific retroviral probes identified the class of expressed endogenous retrovirus distinguishing the two inbred strains. The single ecotropic provirus present in both the NOD and NON genome (Emv-30) was not expressed in islets or thymus of either strain. Comparison of endogenous xenotropic provirus content by Southern blot analysis revealed two unique xenotropic loci (Xmv-65, -66) in NOD; 8.4 and 3.0 kb xenotropic envelope (env) RNA transcripts were detected in NOD, but not NON islets and thymus. NON contained three xenotropic loci common to other inbred strains (Xmv-21, -25, and -28). Both strains were partially characterized for content of recombinant (polytropic and modified polytropic) proviruses. IAP RNA expression was common to both NOD and NON islets and hence could not be specifically associated with the unique intracisternal type C particle found in NOD, but not NON beta cells. In conclusion, this study shows that expression of xenotropic type C but not IAP distinguishes retroviral activity in NOD/Lt versus NON/Lt beta cells. The potential pathogenic role of retroviral gene expression in NOD beta cells is discussed.
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Chattopadhyay SK, Sengupta DN, Fredrickson TN, Morse HC, Hartley JW. Characteristics and contributions of defective, ecotropic, and mink cell focus-inducing viruses involved in a retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency syndrome of mice. J Virol 1991; 65:4232-41. [PMID: 1649328 PMCID: PMC248860 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.8.4232-4241.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
LP-BM5 murine leukemia virus, a derivative of Duplan-Laterjet virus, contains a mixture of replication-competent B-tropic ecotropic and mink cell focus-inducing (MCF) viruses and a defective genome that is the proximal cause of a syndrome, murine AIDS (MAIDS), characterized by lymphoproliferation and immunodeficiency. The defective (BM5d) and ecotropic components of this mixture were molecularly cloned, and complete (BM5d) or partial (ecotropic) nucleotide sequences were determined. BM5d closely resembled the Du5H genome cloned from the Duplan virus, featuring a highly divergent p12 sequence in the gag open reading frame. In MAIDS-sensitive C57BL/6 mice, BM5d was detected in tissues within 2 weeks of infection but was absent from tissues of the MAIDS-resistant strain, A/J, 12 weeks after infection. B-cell-lineage tumors from mice with MAIDS contained and expressed BM5d, and clonal integrations of this genome were variably associated with clonal expansions of B cells in infected mice. Finally, mRNA crosshybridizing with a probe for BM5d was present in spleen but not kidney cells of uninfected B6 mice.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Viral/chemistry
- Defective Viruses/genetics
- Genes, Viral
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mink Cell Focus-Inducing Viruses/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Murine Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/microbiology
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- S K Chattopadhyay
- Laboratory of Immunopathology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Affiliation(s)
- M F Flajnik
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami, FL 33101
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Baylac-Kalabokias H, Astier-Gin T, Moynet D, Hernould M, Mamoun R, Legrand E, Guillemain B. A new leukemogenic retrovirus isolated from tumor cells derived from a radio-induced lymphoma of C57BL/6 mice: analysis of the env and LTR sequences. Virus Res 1991; 18:117-34. [PMID: 2042396 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1702(91)90013-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We report the cloning and characterization of a new ecotropic provirus encountered in a radio-induced thymic lymphoma of the C57BL/6 mouse. The provirus with an abnormally long LTR was inserted in the chromosomal DNA within the Pvt-1/MLVi-1/Mis-1 region which is a common integration site for MCF virus in mice and for Mo-MuLV in rats. This new ecotropic provirus was molecularly cloned and found to be infectious and competent for replication after transfection of murine cells. The recovered virus termed T3651/B was B-ecotropic, T-lymphotropic (in vivo) and highly leukemogenic for newborn C57BL/6 mice and for adult mice provided they were submitted to a subleukemogenic dose of irradiation. As compared to the AKV prototype N-ecotropic endogenous retrovirus, the T3651/B env proteins are only affected by few scattered point mutations. In contrast, the LTR has five repeats of enhancer sequences containing consensus motifs specific of the nuclear factors NF1-like, LVa, LVb and SEF1. Since a virus with such properties was encountered only once in 31 radio-induced tumors and isolated at a fourth tumor passage, a direct role of T3651/B virus in tumor genesis after irradiation is uncertain. Nevertheless, it is clear that T3651/B virus is a new leukemogenic retrovirus with a particular LTR structure which fits well with the model proposed by Rassart et al. (J. Virol. 58, 96-106, 1986) for the emergence of a thymotropic highly leukemogenic RadLV.
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Yano Y, Kobayashi S, Yasumizu R, Tamaki J, Kubo M, Sasaki A, Hasan S, Okuyama H, Inaba M, Ikehara S. Provirus integration at the 3' region of N-myc in cell lines established from thymic lymphomas spontaneously formed in AKR mice and a [(BALB/c x B6)F1----AKR] bone marrow chimera. Jpn J Cancer Res 1991; 82:176-83. [PMID: 1900822 PMCID: PMC5918370 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1991.tb01826.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Among 18 thymic leukemia cell lines which have been established from spontaneous thymic lymphomas in AKR mice as well as in bone marrow chimeras which were constructed by transplanting allogeneic bone marrow cells into irradiated AKR mice, three proviral integration sites were identified; near c-myc, N-myc and pim-1 loci. No integration site specific for chimeric leukemia cell lines was found. In three thymic leukemia cell lines which contained rearranged N-myc genes, insertions of long terminal repeats (LTRs) of murine leukemia viruses were detected at 18 or 20 bp downstream of the translational termination codon. These results demonstrate that the 3' region of the N-myc gene is one of the integration targets for murine leukemia viruses in spontaneous thymic lymphomas. In these three cell lines, N-myc mRNA was stably transcribed and transcription of c-myc mRNA was down-regulated. The integrated murine leukemia viruses in AKR thymic leukemia were most likely AKV, though the DNA sequence of the LTR inserted in the genome of a leukemic cell line from [(BALB/c x B6)F1----AKR], CAK20, was different from LTRs of murine leukemia viruses so far reported.
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- Y Yano
- Section of Bacterial Infection, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
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O'Neill HC. Preferential usage of the V beta 8 gene family by CD4-CD8-T cell lines derived from spleen. Cell Immunol 1990; 129:256-64. [PMID: 2163771 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(90)90202-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Receptors encoded by the V beta 8 gene family and identified by the F23.1 antibody are commonly expressed amongst the CD4-CD8-T cell lines isolated from spleen cells infected in vitro with the RadLV retrovirus. All but one out of 12 cell lines showed between 50 and 85% F23.1+ cells in the uncloned cell population which is noticably higher than the approximately 13% level amongst the Ig- normal spleen cell population. There was a high frequency (approximately 50%) of F23.1+ clones from five of these cell lines. The frequency of F23.1 binding cells in the Ig-, CD4/CD8-depleted spleen population is only 0.2%, which gives a precursor frequency in spleen of less than 0.002%. This reflects selective isolation of CD4-CD8- alpha beta+ cells which express V beta 8 gene products by this culture scheme. The requirement for RadLV in induction of these cell lines has been established, suggesting that this retrovirus may selectively stimulate CD4-CD8-F23.1+ T cells. These cells may represent an autoimmune subset present in peripheral lymphoid tissue.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Growth Substances/physiology
- Leukemia Virus, Murine
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Multigene Family
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- H C O'Neill
- Developmental Haematology Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT
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Janowski M, Cox R, Strauss PG. The molecular biology of radiation-induced carcinogenesis: thymic lymphoma, myeloid leukaemia and osteosarcoma. Int J Radiat Biol 1990; 57:677-91. [PMID: 1969900 DOI: 10.1080/09553009014550851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In mice, external X- or gamma-irradiation may induce thymic lymphomas or myeloid leukaemias, while bone-seeking alpha-emitters may induce osteosarcomas and, to a lesser extent, acute myeloid leukaemia. The present paper aims to review briefly some of the experimental data with respect to the molecular mechanisms underlying these radiation-induced carcinogenic processes. Thymic lymphomagenesis proceeds through an indirect mechanism. Recombinant proviruses often occur in the tumour cell DNA, favouring the idea that they might be involved. However, there are indications that they might mediate tumour growth rather than induction. It is plausible that activation of ras oncogenes by somatic point mutations might play a role in the carcinogenic process, although at a yet undetermined stage. Myeloid leukaemogenesis is characterized by a very early, putative initiating event, consisting of non-random rearrangements and/or deletions of chromosome 2. These may be related to deletions in the developmentally important homeobox gene clusters and to rearrangements of the sequences flanking the IL-1 beta gene. Either a gene of the homeobox family or IL-1 beta might be considered as potentially involved in the induction process. Osteosarcomagenesis in mice is often associated with the expression of proviruses, and the tumours often contain somatically acquired proviruses. These viruses may contribute to tumour development by affecting various growth-suppressor genes. Viruses isolated from bone tumours, although non-sarcomagenic, induce osteopetrosis, osteomas and lymphomas upon infection of newborn mice. Osteogenic tumours frequently display amplification of a region on mouse chromosome 15, which encompasses c-myc and Mlvi-1 sequences. Enhanced transcription of various oncogenes is found in individual tumours, but no specificity for osteosarcomas has been identified. In vitro systems of skeletoblast differentiation are being developed to study tumour induction in vitro.
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- M Janowski
- SCK/CEN, Department of Radioprotection, Mol, Belgium
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Prats AC, Roy C, Wang PA, Erard M, Housset V, Gabus C, Paoletti C, Darlix JL. cis elements and trans-acting factors involved in dimer formation of murine leukemia virus RNA. J Virol 1990; 64:774-83. [PMID: 2153242 PMCID: PMC249172 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.2.774-783.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The genetic material of all retroviruses examined so far consists of two identical RNA molecules joined at their 5' ends by the dimer linkage structure (DLS). Since the precise location of the DLS as well as the mechanism and role(s) of RNA dimerization remain unclear, we analyzed the dimerization process of Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) genomic RNA. For this purpose we derived an in vitro model for RNA dimerization. By using this model, murine leukemia virus RNA was shown to form dimeric molecules. Deletion mutagenesis in the 620-nucleotide leader of MoMuLV RNA showed that the dimer promoting sequences are located within the encapsidation element Psi between positions 215 and 420. Furthermore, hybridization assays in which DNA oligomers were used to probe monomer and dimer forms of MoMuLV RNA indicated that the DLS probably maps between positions 280 and 330 from the RNA 5' end. Also, retroviral nucleocapsid protein was shown to catalyze dimerization of MoMuLV RNA and to be tightly bound to genomic dimer RNA in virions. These results suggest that MoMuLV RNA dimerization and encapsidation are probably controlled by the same cis element, Psi, and trans-acting factor, nucleocapsid protein, and thus might be linked during virion formation.
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- A C Prats
- Labo-Retro, Centre de Recherche de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires du C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France
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Abello J, Damien C, De Neef P, Tastenoy M, Hooghe R, Robberecht P, Christophe J. Properties of vasoactive-intestinal-peptide receptors and beta-adrenoceptors in the murine radiation leukemia-virus-induced lymphoma cell line BL/VL3. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 183:263-7. [PMID: 2547606 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb14922.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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1. Based on radioligand binding and adenylate cyclase activation, functional receptors to vasoactive intestinal peptide(VIP)/helodermin, were shown to coexist with beta 2-adrenoceptors and prostaglandin receptors in membranes from a cultured cloned BL/VL3 cell line of murine T-cell lymphoma induced by a radiation leukemia virus. 2. The relative potency of VIP-related peptides to stimulate adenylate cyclase activity was: helodermin greater than VIP greater than peptide histidine isoleucinamide. Five VIP analogs inhibited 125I-iodo-VIP binding and stimulated adenylate cyclase activity, their decreasing order of potency being: VIP greater than [D-Asp3]VIP greater than [D-Ser2]VIP greater than [D-Ala4]VIP = [D-His1]VIP = [D-Phe2]VIP. [D-Phe2]VIP acted as a partial agonist (with an intrinsic activity of 0.1 as compared to that of VIP = 1.0) and competitively inhibited helodermin- and VIP-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity with a similar Ki (0.07-0.10 microM). These data suggest the existence, in this murine T-cell lymphoma, of VIP receptors of the 'helodermin-preferring' subtype that are coupled to adenylate cyclase.
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- J Abello
- Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Medical School, Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Aziz DC, Hanna Z, Jolicoeur P. Severe immunodeficiency disease induced by a defective murine leukaemia virus. Nature 1989; 338:505-8. [PMID: 2538760 DOI: 10.1038/338505a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Different classes of retroviruses have been shown to induce immunodeficiency diseases in various animal species. These animal models may provide an insight into our understanding of AIDS but, with the exception of one strain of feline leukaemia virus, the determinants of pathogenicity have not yet been mapped to these viral genomes. The immunodeficiency-inducing feline leukaemia virus is replication-defective, harbouring the determinant of pathogenicity within its env sequences. We have studied the Duplan strain of murine leukaemia virus which induces, in C57BL/6 mice, a severe immunodeficiency disease with striking similarities to human AIDS. We have identified the aetiological agent of this murine immunodeficiency disease as another defective retrovirus, with a genome of 4.8 kilobases. Molecular cloning and sequencing of this DNA showed that the pol and env genes have been deleted, but that the complete gag region has been conserved and has a novel sequence encoding the p12 protein. As with the feline leukaemia virus, these results provide evidence for the role of defective retroviruses in inducing immunodeficiency and facilitate the study of the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency syndromes, including AIDS.
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- D C Aziz
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Repaske R, Hartley JW, Kavlick MF, O'Neill RR, Austin JB. Inhibition of RNase H activity and viral replication by single mutations in the 3' region of Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase. J Virol 1989; 63:1460-4. [PMID: 2464706 PMCID: PMC247852 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.3.1460-1464.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Selected conserved amino acids in the putative RNase H domain of reverse transcriptase (RT) were modified in a molecularly cloned infectious provirus and in a Moloney murine leukemia virus RT expression vector by site-directed mutagenesis. Substitution of either of two conserved aspartic acid residues in proviral DNA prevented production of infectious particles in transfected NIH 3T3 cells, and the same modifications depressed RT-associated RNase H activity by more than 25-fold with little or no effect on polymerase activity.
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- R Repaske
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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