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Buchhagen DL, Stutman O, Fleissner E. Chromatographic Separation and Antigenic Analysis of Proteins of the Oncornaviruses IV. Biochemical Typing of Murine Viral Proteins. J Virol 2010; 15:1148-57. [PMID: 16789150 PMCID: PMC354569 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.15.5.1148-1157.1975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tryptic peptide maps were prepared for four purified structural proteins derived from several murine leukemia viruses (MuLV's). Analyses of these peptide maps reveal that the p30 proteins of Rauscher, Moloney, and Gross MuLV's are very similar to each other, as are the p10's obtained from these three viruses. In contrast, the peptide maps of the individual p15's and p12's from the same viruses establish that each of these polypeptides is highly strain specific. For all four polypeptides studied, unique peptides appear in the Rauscher MuLV and Moloney MuLV tryptic profiles that are not present in the corresponding Gross MuLV profile. By this method of analysis it was possible to distinguish the p30's of N-tropic and B-tropic MuLV's derived from the same BALB/c mouse.
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- D L Buchhagen
- Laboratories of Viral Oncology and Cellular Immunobiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021
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Muenchau DD, Ruscetti S, Anderson WF. Sequences present in a small region of the AKV virus envelope gene determine the efficiency with which pseudotyped spleen focus-forming virus infects erythroid target cells. Virology 1992; 186:161-6. [PMID: 1309273 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90070-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Induction of erythroleukemia in mice by the replication-defective spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) relies on the presence of a helper virus to deliver the SFFV genome to erythroid target cells. Pseudotyping studies with different ecotropic murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) have shown that SFFV pseudotyped with Akv, the endogenous ecotropic virus of AKR mice, inefficiently gives rise to virus-induced erythroid bursts (vBFU-E) in vitro and fails to cause erythroleukemia in mice when compared to SFFV pseudotyped with Friend or Moloney MuLV. In order to locate the region(s) of the Akv genome responsible for its inability to act as a helper for SFFV, six different Moloney MuLV chimeras containing Akv envelope sequence substitutions were constructed. Virions with the chimeric envelopes were used to pseudotype SFFV and the complexes were analyzed for their ability to induce vBFU-E in vitro and erythroleukemia in mice. SFFV preparations pseudotyped with three of the constructs containing chimeric envelope genes efficiently gave rise to vBFU-E as did SFFV pseudotyped with Moloney MuLV. SFFV pseudotypes generated from the other three constructs, which all share a common 304-bp region located near the center of the Akv gp70 coding region, and Akv gave rise to very few vBFU-E. However, all SFFV preparations, with the exception of SFFV pseudotyped with Akv, induced erythroleukemia in mice. The results suggest that specific sequences present in the envelope gene of Akv are responsible for the inefficiency of the virus to infect erythroid target cells for SFFV, but additional Akv sequences outside those used in this study affect the ability of the Akv/SFFV virus complex to cause erythroleukemia in mice.
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- D D Muenchau
- Molecular Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Simon MC, Neckameyer WS, Hayward WS, Smith RE. Genetic determinants of neoplastic diseases induced by a subgroup F avian leukosis virus. J Virol 1987; 61:1203-12. [PMID: 3029416 PMCID: PMC254082 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.61.4.1203-1212.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Two subgroup F avian leukosis viruses, ring-necked pheasant virus (RPV) and RAV-61, were previously shown to induce a high incidence of a fatal proliferative disorder in the lungs of infected chickens. These lung lesions, termed angiosarcomas, appear rapidly (4 to 5 weeks after infection), show no evidence of proto-oncogene activation by proviral integration, and are not induced by avian leukosis viruses belonging to other subgroups. To identify the viral sequences responsible for induction of these tumors, we constructed recombinant viruses by exchanging genomic segments of molecularly cloned RPV with those of a subgroup A leukosis virus, UR2AV. The ability to induce rapid lung tumors segregated only with the env sequences of RPV; the long terminal repeat of RPV was not required. However, recombinants carrying both env and long terminal repeat sequences of RPV induced lung tumors with a shorter latency. In several cases, recombinant viruses exhibited pathogenic properties differing from those of either parental virus. Recombinants carrying the gag-pol region of RPV and the env gene of UR2AV induced a high incidence of a muscle lesion termed infiltrative intramuscular fibromatosis. One recombinant, EU-8, which carries the gag-pol and LTR sequences of RPV, and the env gene of UR2AV, induced lymphoid leukosis after an unusually short latent period. The median time of death from lymphoid leukosis was 6 to 7 weeks after infection with EU-8 compared with approximately 5 months for UR2AV.
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Murine leukemia viruses (MuLVs) are retroviruses which induce a broad spectrum of hematopoietic malignancies. In contrast to the acutely transforming retroviruses, MuLVs do not contain transduced cellular genes, or oncogenes. Nonetheless, MuLVs can cause leukemias quickly (4 to 6 weeks) and efficiently (up to 100% incidence) in susceptible strains of mice. The molecular basis of MuLV-induced leukemia is not clear. However, the contribution of individual viral genes to leukemogenesis can be assayed by creating novel viruses in vitro using recombinant DNA techniques. These genetically engineered viruses are tested in vivo for their ability to cause leukemia. Leukemogenic MuLVs possess genetic sequences which are not found in nonleukemogenic viruses. These sequences control the histologic type, incidence, and latency of disease induced by individual MuL Vs.
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Erythroleukaemia, until now defined by morphological criteria, has been observed in mice infected with several distinct virological entities, including the polycythaemia-inducing strains of Friend virus complex (FV-P), the anaemia-inducing strains of Friend and Rauscher virus complex (FV-A and RV-A, respectively) and various helper-independent virus isolates derived from the FV-A or RV-A complexes. Whereas erythroleukaemia develops rapidly (within 2-3 weeks) in mice infected with any strain of FV or RV, the helper-independent virus alone is pathogenic in mice only if they are infected neonatally. We now describe how two biological markers can be used to distinguish among the otherwise confusing array of virus-induced erythroleukaemias in mice. The evidence suggests that there are three different classes of this disease: (1) those (S+E+) from which both defective spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) and erythropoietin-independent, erythroid colony-forming units (CFU-EI) can be recovered, (2) those (S+E-) from which only SFFV (but not CFU-EI) can be recovered, and (3) those (S-E-) from which neither SFFV nor CFU-EI can be recovered. There is a consistent association between the type of virus used to induce the erythroleukaemia and the class of the disease induced.
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Buchhagen DL, Pincus T, Stutman O, Fleissner E. Leukemogenic activity of murine type C viruses after long-term passage in vitro. Int J Cancer 1976; 18:835-42. [PMID: 186421 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910180616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cloned stocks of several murine leukemia viruses (MuLVs) were shown to be leukemogenic for susceptible mice after more than nine years of in vitro passaging in mouse embryo fibroblasts. Tissue culture-grown Rauscher (R-) MuLVs injected into newborn or young adult BALB/c mice induced lymphocytic leukemias in 100% of the animals beginning 80 days post-inoculation. No erythroblastic leukemia was observed even after passaging the tissue-culture-grown R-MuLVs twice through mice, indicating that the component responsible for that disease had been lost or attenuated during growth in fibroblasts. The tissue-culture-grown stock of Moloney (M-) MuLVs likewise induced lymphocytic leukemias in 94% of injected newborn BALB/c mice, and the tissue culture-grown Gross (G-) MuLVs induced lymphocytic leukemias in 42% of injected newborn C3Hf mice. The host range and neutralization characteristics of viruses recovered from animals that became leukemic after injection with the tissue-culture-maintained MuLVs were found to be identical with those of the injected viruses. These data implicate the injected MuLVs in the induction of the leukemias and suggest that the capacity to induce the disease is stably inherited as part of the viral genome even in the absence of expression.
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Eckner RJ. Continuous replication of Friend virus complex (spleen focus-forming virus-lymphatic leukemia-inducing virus) in mouse embryo fibroblasts. Retention of leukemogenicity and loss of immunosuppressive properties. J Exp Med 1975; 142:936-48. [PMID: 1176891 PMCID: PMC2189940 DOI: 10.1084/jem.142.4.936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Exposure of NIH Swiss mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEF) to infectious Friend virus (FV) complex [containing defective spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) and endogenous NB-tropic leukemia-inducing helper virus (LLV-F)] resulted in the productive infection of these cells by both SFFV and LLV-F. Stocks of SFFV derived after extensive growth in this Swiss MEF cell culture system are fully leukemogenic in adult mice for the induction of erythroleukemia and spleen foci. In addition, in vitro-derived LLV-F, when isolated free of SFFV, is fully leukemogenic for the induction of lymphatic leukemia when inoculated into susceptible newborn BALB/c mice. The host range of in vitro-derived FV complex (i.e., FV-TC) for focus formation in vivo is NB-tropic. Unlike in vivo-derived FV complex, FV-TC does not suppress the responsiveness of murine thymocytes to concanavalin A (Con A) in vitro. Rather, FV-TC acts as a mitogen to nonspecifically stimulate the proliferation of BALB/c thymocytes. The mitogenicity of in vitro-derived FV complex is directly associated with the presence of type-C virus particles, is a heat-labile and UV-sensitive property of the virus, and may be primarily due to LLV since equivalent amounts of LLV with or without SFFV present are equally mitogenic. One in vivo passage of FV-TC resulted in the total loss of this mitogenic property with the reappearance of full immunosuppressive properties. This result demonstrates a clear association between in vivo growth of FV and its ability to suppress mouse thymocytes, and suggests that FV complex (SFFV-LLV) is not inherently immunosuppressive for these cells. While the mechanism of this interconversion between immunostimulatory and fully suppressive virus is unknown, both virus markers appear to be dependent upon the presence of infectious FV.
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Brommer EJ, Bentvelzen P. The haematopoietic stem cell in Rauscher virus-induced erythroblastosis of BALB/c mice. Eur J Cancer 1974; 10:827-33. [PMID: 4218814 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2964(74)90141-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Donald KJ, van Griensen LJ, van't Hull E. Modes of cell death in Rauscher leukaemia virus infection. Pathology 1974; 6:315-22. [PMID: 4449670 DOI: 10.3109/00313027409077341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Bentvelzen P, Brinkhof J. Leukaemogenic effect of repeated inoculations with small doses of Tennant virus in BALB-c mice. Nature 1974; 251:155-6. [PMID: 4370633 DOI: 10.1038/251155a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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McGarry MP, Steeves RA, Eckner RJ, Mirand EA, Trudel PJ. Isolation of a myelogenous leukemia-inducing virus from mice infected with the Friend virus complex. Int J Cancer 1974; 13:867-78. [PMID: 4368851 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910130614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Friend murine leukemia virus
- Immune Sera
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/immunology
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/isolation & purification
- Leukemia, Myeloid/microbiology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/mortality
- Leukemia, Myeloid/pathology
- Mice/immunology
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Transplantation, Homologous
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Lilly F, Steeves RA. B-tropic Friend virus: a host-range pseudotype of spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV). Virology 1973; 55:363-70. [PMID: 4742777 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(73)90176-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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