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Weerachatyanukul W, Pooljun C, Hirono I, Chotwiwatthanakun C, Jariyapong P. Infectivity and virulence of the infectious Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus produced from Drosophila melanogaster cell using Penaeus merguiensis as an infection model. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2023; 132:108474. [PMID: 36481289 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2022.108474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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It has been established that baculovirus-insect cell line is applicable for shrimp virus replication, propagation and secretion in the in vitro culture system. We thus aimed to produce Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) clone within S2 cell to improve viral production over the previous model using Sf9 cell. Upon the transfection of genomic RNA1 and RNA2 into S2 cells, the recognizable cellular changes including cytoplasmic swelling and clumping of cells were observed within 24 h. The culture media containing secreted MrNV particles were re-transfected into healthy S2 cells and similar cellular changes as with the first transfection were observed. Immunohistochemistry analysis of the re-infecting S2 cell revealed an intense immunoreactivity against MrNV capsid protein confirming that S2 cell was permissive cells for MrNV. In vivo infectivity test using P. merguiensis as a model animal exposed to the secreted MrNV revealed the presence of RNA2 fragment in shrimp tissue accompanied with the sign of whitish abdominal muscle at 24 h post-infection (p.i.). In addition, the number of shrimp hemocytes decreased at 6-24 h p.i. and returned to the normal level at 48 h p.i., whereas a significant up-regulation of immune-related genes including HSP70 and trypsin was noted. These data suggested that rescued MrNV produced in S2 is practically useful for MrNV infection test in which their natural virion inoculae are difficult to obtain. In addition, the molecular basis of viral pathogenesis can further be investigated which should be beneficial for any antiviral therapy developments in the future.
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- Wattana Weerachatyanukul
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
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- Akkhraratchakumari Veterinary College, Walailak University, Thasala District, Nakhonsrithammarat, 80160, Thailand; Center of Excellence for Aquaculture Technology and Innovation, Walailak University, Thasala District, Nakhonsrithammarat, 80161, Thailand
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- Laboratory of Genome Science, Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Konan 4-5-7, Minato, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan
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- Center of Excellence for Aquaculture Technology and Innovation, Walailak University, Thasala District, Nakhonsrithammarat, 80161, Thailand; Department of Medical Science, School of Medicine, Walailak University, Thasala District, Nakhonsrithammarat, 80160, Thailand.
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Construction of Infectious Clones of Begomoviruses: Strategies, Techniques and Applications. BIOLOGY 2021; 10:biology10070604. [PMID: 34209952 PMCID: PMC8301103 DOI: 10.3390/biology10070604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Simple Summary Begomovirus has a wide host range and threatens a significant amount of economic damage to many important crops such as tomatoes, beans, cassava, squash and cotton. There are many efforts directed at controlling this disease including the use of insecticides to control the insect vector as well as screening the resistant varieties. The use of synthetic virus or infectious clones approaches has allowed plant virologists to characterize and exploit the genome virus at the molecular and biological levels. By exploiting the DNA of the virus using the infectious clones strategy, the viral genome can be manipulated at specific regions to study functional genes for host–virus interactions. Thus, this review will provide an overview of the strategy to construct infectious clones of Begomovirus. The significance of established infectious clones in Begomovirus study will also be discussed. Abstract Begomovirus has become a potential threat to the agriculture sector. It causes significant losses to several economically important crops. Given this considerable loss, the development of tools to study viral genomes and function is needed. Infectious clones approaches and applications have allowed the direct exploitation of virus genomes. Infectious clones of DNA viruses are the critical instrument for functional characterization of the notable and newly discovered virus. Understanding of structure and composition of viruses has contributed to the evolution of molecular plant pathology. Therefore, this review provides extensive guidelines on the strategy to construct infectious clones of Begomovirus. Also, this technique’s impacts and benefits in controlling and understanding the Begomovirus infection will be discussed.
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Gangnonngiw W, Bunnontae M, Phiwsaiya K, Senapin S, Dhar AK. In experimental challenge with infectious clones of Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) and extra small virus (XSV), MrNV alone can cause mortality in freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii). Virology 2019; 540:30-37. [PMID: 31734381 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2019] [Revised: 10/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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To overcome the lack of immortal shrimp cell lines for shrimp viral research, we constructed and tested DNA infectious clones of Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) and extra small virus (XSV) often found together in freshwater prawn (M. rosenbergii) exhibiting white tail disease (WTD). Full-length cDNAs of MrNV and XSV genomic RNA were individually inserted into the baculovirus pFastBacDUAL shuttle vector. Individual Sf9 (insect cell line) transfection resulted in production of RNA (RT-PCR) and capsid proteins (immunofluorescence) for both viruses. Presence of respective virions was confirmed by density gradient purification followed by RT-PCR and transmission electron microscopy. Infectivity was by tested in immersion-challenge tests with M. rosenbergii post-larvae (PL) using both semi-purified viruses, individually or combined, and confirmed by histological analysis (morphology and immunofluorescence) and quantitative RT-PCR. Mortality accompanied by WTD lesions occurred with MrNV alone or in combination with XSV but not with XSV alone, despite its replication.
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- Warachin Gangnonngiw
- Center of Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Centex Shrimp), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand; National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pratum Thani, 12120, Thailand.
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- Center of Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Centex Shrimp), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
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- Center of Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Centex Shrimp), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand; National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pratum Thani, 12120, Thailand
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- Center of Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Centex Shrimp), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand; National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pratum Thani, 12120, Thailand
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- Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Building 90, 1117 E. Lowell St., Tucson, AZ, 85718, USA
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Boi S, Ferrell ME, Zhao M, Hasenkrug KJ, Evans LH. Mouse APOBEC3 expression in NIH 3T3 cells mediates hypermutation of AKV murine leukemia virus. Virology 2018; 518:377-384. [PMID: 29605684 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2018.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Revised: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mouse APOBEC3 (mA3) is a cytidine deaminase that can act on the single-stranded DNA reverse transcripts of retroviruses resulting in G→A hypermutation of proviral DNA. Many mA3 studies have used NIH 3T3 cells assuming that endogenous mA3 production was negligible. We developed a monoclonal antibody specific for mA3 that reveals detectable mA3 in NIH 3T3 cells and we demonstrate that AKV released from the cells undergoes G→A hypermutation. Inactivation of the mA3 gene abolished the deamination confirming that AKV hypermutation was mediated by mA3. The G→A mutations in AKV viral transcripts deviated from a normal distribution with all the mutations contained within only 20% of the transcripts. Single cell analyses revealed that the expression of mA3 in NIH 3T3 cells was limited to 20% of the cells, which likely accounted for the abnormal distribution of mutations. Endogenous NIH 3T3 mA3 was found to restrict AKV replication.
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- Stefano Boi
- Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
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- Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
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- Protein Chemistry Section, Research Technologies Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
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- Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
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Gaur A, Green WR. Analysis of the helper virus in murine retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency syndrome: evidence for immunoselection of the dominant and subdominant CTL epitopes of the BM5 ecotropic virus. Viral Immunol 2003; 16:203-12. [PMID: 12828871 DOI: 10.1089/088282403322017938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In genetically susceptible strains, such as C57BL/6 (B6) mice, LP-BM5 causes murine AIDS (MAIDS). LP-BM5 is a complex mixture of murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) that includes replication competent ecotropic (BM5eco) and mink cell focus inducing (MCF), and replication defective (BM5d) MuLV. At present, for the BM5eco virus, sequence information on only the gag region is available. In this paper, we describe for the first time the sequencing of the entire BM5eco viral genome as well as analysis of homology with two other previously sequenced and well-characterized MuLVs, Emv-11 and Emv-2, the latter constituting the parental virus for BM5eco. We propose that the detailed sequence comparisons herein provide cogent evidence that BM5eco utilizes variations in cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) epitopes as an immune escape mechanism. This CTL evasion mechanism may contribute substantially to the underlying prototypic susceptibility of B6 mice to LP-BM5-induced MAIDS.
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- Arti Gaur
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
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Burkhart MD, Kayman SC, He Y, Pinter A. Distinct mechanisms of neutralization by monoclonal antibodies specific for sites in the N-terminal or C-terminal domain of murine leukemia virus SU. J Virol 2003; 77:3993-4003. [PMID: 12634359 PMCID: PMC150638 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.7.3993-4003.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The epitope specificities and functional activities of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the murine leukemia virus (MuLV) SU envelope protein subunit were determined. Neutralizing antibodies were directed towards two distinct sites in MuLV SU: one overlapping the major receptor-binding pocket in the N-terminal domain and the other involving a region that includes the most C-terminal disulfide-bonded loop. Two other groups of MAbs, reactive with distinct sites in the N-terminal domain or in the proline-rich region (PRR), did not neutralize MuLV infectivity. Only the neutralizing MAbs specific for the receptor-binding pocket were able to block binding of purified SU and MuLV virions to cells expressing the ecotropic MuLV receptor, mCAT-1. Whereas the neutralizing MAbs specific for the C-terminal domain did not interfere with the SU-mCAT-1 interaction, they efficiently inhibited cell-to-cell fusion mediated by MuLV Env, indicating that they interfered with a postattachment event necessary for fusion. The C-terminal domain MAbs displayed the highest neutralization titers and binding activities. However, the nonneutralizing PRR-specific MAbs bound to intact virions with affinities similar to those of the neutralizing receptor-binding pocket-specific MAbs, indicating that epitope exposure, while necessary, is not sufficient for viral neutralization by MAbs. These results identify two separate neutralization domains in MuLV SU and suggest a role for the C-terminal domain in a postattachment step necessary for viral fusion.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antibodies, Viral
- Antigens, Viral/chemistry
- Antigens, Viral/genetics
- Binding Sites
- Cell Line
- Cricetinae
- Epitope Mapping
- Epitopes/chemistry
- Epitopes/genetics
- Friend murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Friend murine leukemia virus/immunology
- Humans
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neutralization Tests
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Rats
- Receptors, Virus/immunology
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/chemistry
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/genetics
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/immunology
- Viral Envelope Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
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- Michael Dominic Burkhart
- Laboratory of Retroviral Biology, Public Health Research Institute, Newark, New Jersey 07103-3535, USA
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Cook WJ, Green KA, Obar JJ, Green WR. Quantitative analysis of LP-BM5 murine leukemia retrovirus RNA using real-time RT-PCR. J Virol Methods 2003; 108:49-58. [PMID: 12565153 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-0934(02)00256-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Murine AIDS (MAIDS) develops in susceptible mouse strains after infection with the LP-BM5 murine leukemia virus (MuLV) complex that contains a mixture of defective (BM5def) and replication-competent viruses. While the BM5def virus is the causative agent in MAIDS, the replication-competent viruses in LP-BM5, including ecotropic MuLV (BM5eco), are required for BM5def propagation and thus function as helper viruses. We describe quantitative real-time RT-PCR assays for RNA encoded by the BM5def and BM5eco components of LP-BM5. The assays were used to standardize better the input doses of LP-BM5 viruses across viral preparations and to quantify BM5def and BM5eco gag RNA levels in spleen and blood cells from MAIDS-susceptible and -insusceptible infected mice. Spleens of MAIDS-susceptible infected mice harbored approximately similar levels of BM5def gag RNA as infected spleens of mice that are insusceptible to MAIDS due to lack of CD40. In contrast, the same infected spleens of CD40-deficient mice contained substantially higher (up to 10-fold) levels of BM5eco gag RNA compared with susceptible controls. Similar to that seen in spleen, infected blood of CD40-deficient mice contained similar levels of BM5def gag as susceptible strains, but increased levels (up to threefold) of BM5eco gag RNA. The assays described below can be used to characterize better the contributions of different functional viral components of the LP-BM5 mixture to the development of MAIDS.
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- W James Cook
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Borwell Building, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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Shahabuddin M, Khan AS. Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 by packageable, multigenic antisense RNA. ANTISENSE & NUCLEIC ACID DRUG DEVELOPMENT 2000; 10:141-51. [PMID: 10905551 DOI: 10.1089/oli.1.2000.10.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Viral-based vectors can provide an efficient delivery mechanism for stable expression of antisense RNA. To enhance and propagate the antiviral effect of antisense RNA, two novel human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-based vector DNAs, designated as pMAG7 and pMAG19, were constructed which contained HIV-1 cis-acting packaging elements and produced multigenic HIV-1 antisense RNA that could target the entire pol, env, vif, vpu, vpr, rev, and tat and portions of gag and nef. The two DNAs were identical except that pMAG19 had additional gag coding sequences. Cotransfection of pMAG DNA and infectious, cloned HIV-1 DNA in 293 cells inhibited virus production (81%-98% reduction in reverse transcriptase activity) of various T cell-tropic and macrophage-tropic clade B isolates, such as NL4-3, YU-2, and JR-CSF. In addition, virion-associated pMAG antisense RNA was detected in residual virus particles produced by pNL4-3 in the presence of pMAG7 DNA, and the antisense sequences were stably transferred by infection of 174 x CEM cells. The results suggest that pMAG DNA may confer broad protection against HIV-1 by reducing initial virus burden due to antisense RNA and subsequent virus spread by propagation of antisense sequences along with wild-type virus.
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- M Shahabuddin
- Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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We previously showed that B16 melanoma cells produce ecotropic melanoma-associated retrovirus (MelARV) which encodes a melanoma-associated antigen recognized by MM2-9B6 monoclonal antibody. The biological significance of MelARV in melanoma formation remains unknown. We found that infection of normal melanocytes with MelARV resulted in malignant transformation. It is likely that MelARV emerged from the defective Emv-2 provirus, a single copy of ecotropic provirus existing in the genome of C57BL/6 mice. In the present study, we cloned and sequenced the full-length MelARV genome and its insertion sites and we completed sequencing of the Emv-2 provirus. Our data show that MelARV has a typical full-length retroviral genome with high homology (98.54%) to Emv-2, indicating a close relationship between both viruses. MelARV probably emerged as a result of recombination between Emv-2 and an endogenous nonecotropic provirus. Some observed differences in the gag and pol regions of MelARV might account for the restoration of productivity and infectivity of a novel retrovirus that somatically emerged during melanoma formation. MelARV does not contain any oncogene and therefore might induce transformation by insertional mutagenesis. We sequenced two insertion sites of MelARV. The first insertion site represents the 3' coding region of the c-maf proto-oncogene at 67.0 centimorgans (cM) on chromosome 8. The c-maf proto-oncogene encodes a basic leucine zipper protein homologous to c-fos and c-jun. Insertion of MelARV in BL6 melanoma cells resulted in the up-regulation of c-maf. It is noteworthy that the Emv-2 provirus is also inserted into a noncoding region at 61.0 cM on the same chromosome 8. The second insertion site is the 3' noncoding region of the DNA polymerase gamma (PolG) gene on chromosome 7. The expression of PolG was not affected by the MelARV insertion. Further investigation of the biological significance of MelARV in melanoma formation is being undertaken.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Polymerase gamma
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/genetics
- Gammaretrovirus/genetics
- Gammaretrovirus/physiology
- Genome, Viral
- Melanoma, Experimental/virology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Plasmids/genetics
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-maf
- Proto-Oncogenes/genetics
- Proviruses/genetics
- Proviruses/physiology
- RNA, Viral/analysis
- RNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Virus Integration
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- M Li
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Department of Pathology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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Mouse retrovirus-induced lymphoma/leukemia and immunodeficiency are useful models for analogous human diseases. Both ecotropic (mouse tropic) and recombinant retroviruses, including the polytropic mink cytopathic focus-inducing type, have been studied for disease pathogenesis and as targets for humoral and cellular immunity, particularly cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses. For AKR/Gross murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) we have defined an immunodominant CTL epitope in the p 15E transmembrane anchor envelope protein and three minor/subdominant epitopes. Evidence is presented for retroviral escape from CTL by selection following genetic recombination and point mutation both within and outside CTL epitope sequences, and via endogenous retrovirus-infected cell downregulation of the generation of anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL. As demonstrated in vivo in naturally occurring non-responder strains by adoptive transfer, and in vitro by cell-mixing experiments, a central non-responsiveness mechanism appears to be peripheral inhibition mediated by infected cells expressing MHC-presented viral peptides. Such inhibition requires Fas expression by antiviral T cells; occurs upon TCR-mediated recognition of virus-infected, Fas ligand-expressing "veto" cells; and apparently leads to an antigen-specific form of activation-induced cell death of T cells. In the LP-BM5 MuLV isolate that causes murine AIDS (MAIDS) retroviral variation also leads to CTL escape--the BM5-helper virus has altered forms of the immunodominant and two minor/subdominant epitopes. In contrast, a novel immunodominant CTL epitope is recognized by MAIDS resistant, but not MAIDS-susceptible, strains. This epitope is uniquely encoded in an alternative translational reading frame of the viral gag gene. It also appears that the LP-BM5 MuLV have co-opted the cells of the immune system for retroviral pathogenesis--CD40/CD40L (CD154) interactions are required both for the initiation and progression of MAIDS.
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- W R Green
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA.
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Lovmand J, Sorensen AB, Schmidt J, Ostergaard M, Luz A, Pedersen FS. B-Cell lymphoma induction by akv murine leukemia viruses harboring one or both copies of the tandem repeat in the U3 enhancer. J Virol 1998; 72:5745-56. [PMID: 9621033 PMCID: PMC110375 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.7.5745-5756.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Akv is an endogenous, ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) of the AKR strain. It has served as a prototype nonpathogenic or weakly pathogenic reference virus for studies of closely related potent lymphomagenic viruses such as the T-lymphomagenic SL3-3. We here report that Akv and an Akv mutant (Akv1-99) with only one copy of the 99-bp transcriptional enhancer induce malignant lymphomas with nearly 100% incidence and mean latency periods of 12 months after injection into newborn NMRI mice. Molecular analysis of tumor DNA showed that the majority of the tumors were of the B-cell type. Sequence analysis of proviral transcriptional enhancers in DNA of B-cell lymphomas revealed conservation of the enhancer sequence, as well as a lack of sequence duplications of the Akv1-99 variant, while the repeat copy number in Akv was subject to fluctuations. In support of a B-cell specificity of the Akv enhancer, a murine plasmacytoma cell line was found to sustain three- to fivefold-higher transient transcriptional activity upon the Akv and Akv1-99 enhancers than upon the enhancer of the T-lymphomagenic SL3-3 MuLV. Thus, the overall picture is that Akv MuLV possesses a B- lymphomagenic potential and that the second copy of the 99-bp sequence seems to be of minor importance for this potential. However, in one animal the lymphomas induced by Akv1-99 were of the T-cell type. Among the 24 tumors analyzed only this one harbored a clonal proviral integration in the c-myc locus. This provirus had undergone a duplication of a 113-bp sequence of the enhancer region, partly overlapping with the 99-bp repeat of Akv, as well as a few single nucleotide alterations within and outside the repeats. Taken together with previous studies, our results suggest that T- versus B-lymphomagenic specificity of the enhancer is governed by more than one nucleotide difference and that alterations in binding sites for transcription factors of the AML1 and nuclear-factor-1 families may contribute to this specificity.
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- J Lovmand
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Li Z, Pinter A, Kayman SC. The critical N-linked glycan of murine leukemia virus envelope protein promotes both folding of the C-terminal domains of the precursor polyprotein and stability of the postcleavage envelope complex. J Virol 1997; 71:7012-9. [PMID: 9261431 PMCID: PMC191987 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.7012-7019.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The infectivity of Friend ecotropic murine leukemia virus was previously shown to be highly sensitive to modification in its envelope protein (Env) at only one of the eight signals for N-linked glycan attachment, the fourth from the N terminus (gs4). In the present study, a set of six single-amino-acid substitutions in or near gs4 was used to determine the function of this region of Env and the role played by the glycan itself. One mutant that lacked the gs4 glycan was fully infectious, while one that retained this glycan was completely noninfectious, indicating that the gs4 glycan per se is not required for Env function. Infectivity correlated with the level of mature Env complex incorporated into virus particles, which was determined by the severity of defects in transport of the envelope precursor protein (gPrEnv) from the endoplasmic reticulum into the Golgi apparatus, in cleavage of gPrEnv into the two envelope subunits (the surface protein [SU] and the transmembrane protein [TM]), and in the association of SU with cellular membranes. All of the mutants induced the wild-type level of superinfection interference, indicating that the gs4 region mutations did not interfere with proper folding of the N-terminal domain of SU. These results suggest that the gs4 region mediates folding of the C-terminal domains of gPrEnv and stability of the interaction between SU and TM. Although the gs4 glycan was not essential for infectivity, processing of all mutant Envs lacking this glycan was significantly impaired, suggesting that efficient folding of gPrEnv requires a glycan at this position. The conservation of a glycosylation site homologous to gs4 across a broad range of retroviruses suggests that this sequence may play a similar role in many retroviral Envs.
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- Z Li
- Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
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Ostergaard M, Pedersen L, Schmidt J, Luz A, Lovmand J, Erfle V, Pedersen FS, Strauss PG. Mapping of a major osteomagenic determinant of murine leukemia virus RFB-14 to non-long terminal repeat sequences. J Virol 1997; 71:645-9. [PMID: 8985395 PMCID: PMC191096 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.1.645-649.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Certain isolates of murine leukemia viruses (MuLVs) have, apart from a leukemogenic potential, the capability of inducing diseases of nonhematopoietic tissues in susceptible strains of mice. We have reported on the molecular cloning of a bone-tumorigenic virus, RFB-14 MuLV, which was found to induce benign bone tumors, osteomas, with 100% incidence in mice of the CBA/Ca strain (L. Pedersen, W. Behnisch, J. Schmidt, A. Luz, F. S. Pedersen, V. Erfle, and P. G. Strauss, J. Virol. 66:6186-6190, 1992). In order to analyze the bone tumor-inducing phenotype of RFB-14 MuLV, we have studied the pathogenic potential of recombinant viruses between RFB-14 and the nonosteomagenic, highly leukemogenic SL3-3 MuLV. The recombinants were constructed so as to reveal whether a major determinant of osteomagenicity maps to sequences within or outside the long terminal repeats (LTR). Our data show that a major determinant of the osteoma-inducing potential of RFB-14 MuLV maps to the non-LTR region of the genome. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a strong determinant of leukemogenicity is harbored by the non-LTR region of SL3-3 MuLV.
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- M Ostergaard
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Mikkelsen JG, Lund AH, Kristensen KD, Duch M, Sørensen MS, Jørgensen P, Pedersen FS. A preferred region for recombinational patch repair in the 5' untranslated region of primer binding site-impaired murine leukemia virus vectors. J Virol 1996; 70:1439-47. [PMID: 8627661 PMCID: PMC189964 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.3.1439-1447.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Transduction of primer binding site-impaired Akv murine leukemia virus-based retroviral vectors from the murine packaging cell lines psi-2 and omega E was studied. The efficiency of transduction of the neo marker of all mutated constructs was found to decrease by 5 to 6 orders of magnitude compared with that of the wild-type vector. Thirty-two of 60 transduced proviruses analyzed harbored a primer binding site sequence matching a glutamine tRNA primer. Sequence analysis of the regions flanking the glutamine tRNA primer binding site revealed a distinct pattern of nucleotide differences from the Akv-based vector, suggesting the involvement of a specific endogenous virus-like sequence in patch repair rescue of the primer binding site mutants. The putative recombination partner RNA was found in virions from psi-2 cells as detected by analysis of glutamine tRNA-initiated cDNA and by sequence analysis of regions at or around the glutamine tRNA primer binding site. We propose that the forced recombination of primer binding site mutants involves initial priming on endogenous viral sequences and requires template switching during minus-strand synthesis in the region between the neo gene and the mutated primer binding site to allow correct second-strand transfer in reverse transcription. The system thereby selects for a reverse transcriptase-mediated recombination event in the 5' untranslated region. A panel of sequence differences between the recombination partners in this region has allowed mapping of the site of recombination for each transduction event. Interestingly, the majority of the recombination events were clustered within a narrow, 33-nucleotide region though to be involved in genomic RNA dimerization.
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- J G Mikkelsen
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Coppola MA, Green WR, Rich RF. Impaired generation of anti-AKR/Gross murine leukemia virus cytotoxic T lymphocytes in mice experimentally infected with MuLV. Viral Immunol 1996; 9:107-19. [PMID: 8822627 DOI: 10.1089/vim.1996.9.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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C57BL/6 (B6) and C57BL/6.Fv-1n (B6.Fv-1n) mice mount AKR/Gross murine leukemia virus (MuLV)-specific cytolytic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses following primary and secondary stimulation with AKR/Gross MuLV-induced tumor cells. In contrast, mice exposed to infectious virus rather than virus-infected cells generate little, if any, antiviral CTL activity. In this report, we show that inoculation of B6 or B6.Fv-1n mice with MuLV prior to priming with H-2-matched AKR/Gross virus antigen-positive tumor cells resulted in a profound inhibition of the virus-specific CTL response. Antiallogeneic major and minor histocompatibility antigen-specific CTL responses were not significantly diminished in MuLV-infected mice. The AKR/Gross MuLV-specific CTL response in B6 mice was inhibited by NB-tropic (SL3-3NB, Friend and Moloney), but not N-tropic (AKR623) MuLV, suggesting that productive infection of host cells was required. We were unable to inhibit the in vitro generation of virus-specific CTL by adding modulator cells from virus-infected mice to mixed lymphocyte-tumor cell cultures (MLTC) of spleen cells from uninfected animals. We also failed to augment CTL generation in MLTC from virus-infected animals by adding exogenous IL-2 or CD4+ lymphocytes from uninfected, tumor-primed mice. Taken together, the data suggested that the inhibition resulted from either a direct or an indirect effect on the in vivo priming of virus-specific CD8+ cells. It is therefore interesting that MuLV such as Friend and Moloney, which do not encode the immunodominant epitope recognized by anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL, are nonetheless able to specifically inhibit this response. These results demonstrate a potentially important mechanism by which retroviruses may escape CTL-mediated immunity.
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- M A Coppola
- Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
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Anderson GW, Plagemann PG. Expression of ecotropic murine leukemia virus in the brains of C58/M, DBA2/J, and in utero-infected CE/J mice. J Virol 1995; 69:8089-95. [PMID: 7494328 PMCID: PMC189760 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.12.8089-8095.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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In C58 and AKR mice, endogenous N-tropic, ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) proviruses become activated in rare cells during embryogenesis. Resultant replication-competent progeny viruses then actively infect a large number of cells throughout the fetus, including cells in the developing central nervous system. By in situ hybridization analyses, we have assessed the presence of ecotropic MuLV RNA in the brains of C58 mice as a function of age. Only a few ecotropic MuLV-positive cells were observed in weanling mice, but the number of positive cells in the brain increased progressively with increasing age of the mice. Throughout the lives of the mice, the ecotropic MuLV RNA-positive cells were primarily located in well-defined white-matter tracts of the brain (commissura anterior, corpus callosum, fimbria hippocampi, optical tract, and striatum) and of the spinal cord. Cells of the subventricular zone also expressed ecotropic MuLV RNA, and in older mice a small number of positive cells were present in the grey matter. Infection of endogenous ecotropic MuLV provirus-less CE/J mice in utero with ecotropic MuLV clone AKR-623 resulted in the extensive infection of brain cells. The regional distribution of ecotropic MuLV RNA-containing cells was the same as observed in the brains of C58 mice, in which cells became infected by endogenously activated virus, but the number of positive cells was higher.
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- G W Anderson
- Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
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Anderson GW, Palmer GA, Rowland RR, Even C, Plagemann PG. Infection of central nervous system cells by ecotropic murine leukemia virus in C58 and AKR mice and in in utero-infected CE/J mice predisposes mice to paralytic infection by lactate dehydrogenase-elevating virus. J Virol 1995; 69:308-19. [PMID: 7983723 PMCID: PMC188577 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.1.308-319.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Certain mouse strains, such as AKR and C58, which possess N-tropic, ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) proviruses and are homozygous at the Fv-1n locus are specifically susceptible to paralytic infection (age-dependent poliomyelitis [ADPM]) by lactate dehydrogenase-elevating virus (LDV). Our results provide an explanation for this genetic linkage and directly prove that ecotropic MuLV infection of spinal cord cells is responsible for rendering anterior horn neurons susceptible to cytocidal LDV infection, which is the cause of the paralytic disease. Northern (RNA) blot hybridization of total tissue RNA and in situ hybridization of tissue sections demonstrated that only mice harboring central nervous system (CNS) cells that expressed ecotropic MuLV were susceptible to ADPM. Our evidence indicates that the ecotropic MuLV RNA is transcribed in CNS cells from ecotropic MuLV proviruses that have been acquired by infection with exogenous ecotropic MuLV, probably during embryogenesis, the time when germ line proviruses in AKR and C58 mice first become activated. In young mice, MuLV RNA-containing cells were found exclusively in white-matter tracts and therefore were glial cells. An increase in the ADPM susceptibility of the mice with advancing age correlated with the presence of an increased number of ecotropic MuLV RNA-containing cells in the spinal cords which, in turn, correlated with an increase in the number of unmethylated proviruses in the DNA extracted from spinal cords. Studies with AKXD recombinant inbred strains showed that possession of a single replication-competent ecotropic MuLV provirus (emv-11) by Fv-1n/n mice was sufficient to result in ecotropic MuLV infection of CNS cells and ADPM susceptibility. In contrast, no ecotropic MuLV RNA-positive cells were present in the CNSs of mice carrying defective ecotropic MuLV proviruses (emv-3 or emv-13) or in which ecotropic MuLV replication was blocked by the Fv-1n/b or Fv-1b/b phenotype. Such mice were resistant to paralytic LDV infection. In utero infection of CE/J mice, which are devoid of any endogenous ecotropic MuLVs, with the infectious clone of emv-11 (AKR-623) resulted in the infection of CNS cells, and the mice became ADPM susceptible, whereas littermates that had not become infected with ecotropic MuLV remained ADPM resistant.
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- G W Anderson
- Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0312
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Massey AC, Lawrenz-Smith SC, Innes DJ, Thomas CY. Origins of enhancer sequences of recombinant murine leukemia viruses from spontaneous B- and T-cell lymphomas of CWD mice. J Virol 1994; 68:3773-83. [PMID: 8189515 PMCID: PMC236882 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.6.3773-3783.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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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Recombinant murine leukemia viruses from the highly leukemic mouse strains AKR, HRS, and C58 usually acquire pathogenic U3 region sequences fro the endogenous xenotropic virus, Bxv-1. However, the majority of tumors from another highly leukemic strain, CWD, contained recombinant viruses that lacked Bxv-1-specific sequences. The nucleotide sequence of the U3 regions of two such CWD recombinants was nearly identical to that of the endogenous ecotropic virus parent Emv-1, but they shared three nucleotide substitutions immediately 3' of the enhancer core. These substitutions were found in recombinant proviruses from about one-third of spontaneous CWD lymphomas as determined by an oligonucleotide hybridization assay of proviral fragments that had been nucleotide substitutions in the CWD viruses were inherited from an endogenous polytropic provirus that is absent in the other highly leukemic strains. On the basis of the results of these and previous studies, we propose that CWD recombinants acquire pathogenic U3 region sequences through recombination with an endogenous polytropic virus or Bxv-1 and that the pathogenicity of these sequences may be related to a sequence motif that is known to bind members of the basic helix-loop-helix class of transcription factors.
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- A C Massey
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908
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White HD, Roeder DA, Green WR. An immunodominant Kb-restricted peptide from the p15E transmembrane protein of endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) AKR623 that restores susceptibility of a tumor line to anti-AKR/Gross MuLV cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Virol 1994; 68:897-904. [PMID: 8289392 PMCID: PMC236526 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.2.897-904.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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H-2b tumor cells expressing the endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus (EMV) induce an anti-AKR/Gross murine leukemia virus (MuLV) cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response in the C57BL/6 mouse strain. The EMV clone AKR623 has been used to infect SC.Kb fibroblast cells, resulting in SC.Kb/623 targets that are lysed by bulk anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL with a profile that is similar to that for the EMV+ AKR.H-2b SL1 tumor target. Anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL are restricted by the class I Kb antigen and do not cross-react with Friend-Moloney-Rauscher virus-positive targets. The AKR623 genome was searched by computer for coding sequences that fit the motif XXXX(FY)XX(VIML) for peptides that bind Kb. Of 30 octameric peptides identified, 12 that were unique to AKR623 and different from published Friend-Moloney-Rauscher sequences were synthesized and bound to EMV-negative SC.Kb cells, which were then assayed as targets against anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL. One peptide, peptide 12 (KSPWFTTL) from the p15E transmembrane protein, sensitized SC.Kb target cells to lysis by anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL with a profile similar to those seen for AKR.H-2b SL1 tumor targets and SC.Kb/623 fibroblast targets. Low concentrations of peptide were sufficient, the half-maximal lysis occurring at 10 to 100 pg/ml. SC.Kb/peptide 12 targets were recognized by the H-2b-restricted bulk CTL in a conventional class I Kb-restricted fashion. Unlabeled SC.Kb/peptide 12-pulsed targets were effective in competing with radiolabeled SC.Kb/623 targets for lysis by anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL. This finding is consistent with the notion that peptide 12 represents the dominant endogenously processed epitope recognized by these antiviral CTL. In addition, peptide 12 is immunogenic in that it could stimulate the in vitro generation of an anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL response from tumor-primed C57BL/6 responder spleen cells. Finally, the physiological relevance of peptide 12 was suggested by its ability to fully restore the recognition and lysis of AKR.H-2b SL1 clone 18-5 tumor cells, a naturally occurring variant tumor clone that is insusceptible to lysis by anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL. These data indicate that a virus-encoded antigen, represented by peptide 12, and not a nonviral tumor antigen, is the immunodominant epitope responsible for the recognition of EMV+ tumor cells by C57BL/6-derived anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL.
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- H D White
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756-0001
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Schmidt J, Heermeier K, Linzner U, Luz A, Silbermann M, Livne E, Erfle V. Osteosarcomagenic doses of radium (224Ra) and infectious endogenous retroviruses enhance proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of skeletal tissue differentiating in vitro. RADIATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOPHYSICS 1994; 33:69-79. [PMID: 8202594 DOI: 10.1007/bf01255275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Cartilage tissue from embryonic mice which undergoes osteogenic differentiation during in vitro cultivation was used to study the effect of osteosarcomagenic doses of alpha-irradiation and bone-tumor-inducing retroviruses on proliferation and phenotypic differentiation of skeletal cells in a defined tissue culture model. Irradiated mandibular condyles showed dose-dependent enhancement of cell proliferation at day 7 of the culture and increased osteogenic differentiation at day 14. Maximal effects were found with 7.4 Bq/ml of 224Ra-labeled medium. Doses of 740 and 7400 Bq/ml of 224Ra-labeled medium induced increasing cell death. Retrovirus infection enhanced osteogenic differentiation and extended the viability of irradiated cells. After transplantation none of the treated tissues developed tumors in syngeneic mice.
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- J Schmidt
- Institut für Molekulare Virologie, GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH, Obersohleissheim, Germany
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White HD, Roeder DA, Lam T, Green WR. Major and minor Kb-restricted epitopes encoded by the endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus AKR623 that are recognized by anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL. Viral Immunol 1994; 7:51-9. [PMID: 7848510 DOI: 10.1089/vim.1994.7.51] [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: 01/27/2023] Open
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C57BL/6 mice can generate a type-specific and class IH-2Kb-restricted CTL response against histocompatible AKR/Gross murine leukemia virus (MuLV) cell surface antigen positive (GCSA+) tumor cells. These anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL are also known to lyse SC.Kb/623 target cells expressing the molecular MuLV clone AKR623 (derived from the endogenous ecotropic MuLV provirus emv-11). To help identify AKR623 viral epitopes recognized by these CTL, four chimeric proviruses were constructed from two parental plasmids, pAKR623 and pAK7. It has been shown that SC.Kb/7 fibroblast targets expressing the emv-14-derived molecular clone AK7 are only poorly lysed by anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL. Data from experiments employing SC.Kb cells infected with the chimeras as targets against anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL supported the location of a previously identified immunodominant epitope located within the viral p15E transmembrane envelope protein, peptide TM134-141 (KSP-WFTTL). Furthermore, the use of Kb-motif-defined AKR623 encoded peptides together with data obtained using the chimeric viruses allowed the identification of three additional anti-AKR/Gross MuLV CTL epitopes. Peptides representing these epitopes, MA125-132 (RSALY-PAL), RT142-149 (SHRWYTVL), and RT456-463 (RMTHYQAM), are characterized herein with respect to their ability to confer lysis upon EMV- target cells and to stimulate tumor primed splenocytes in vitro. The identification and characterization of these additional epitopes allow for a better understanding of both the CTL response against GCSA+ tumor cells and the dysfunctional CTL response against EMV-14 and AK7.
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MESH Headings
- AKR murine leukemia virus/immunology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Antigens, Surface/immunology
- Antigens, Viral/chemistry
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Chimera/immunology
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- Female
- Immunodominant Epitopes/chemistry
- Immunodominant Epitopes/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred AKR
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Viral Envelope Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- H D White
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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Szabo C, Kim YK, Mark WH. The endogenous ecotropic murine retroviruses Emv-16 and Emv-17 are both capable of producing new proviral insertions in the mouse genome. J Virol 1993; 67:5704-8. [PMID: 8394469 PMCID: PMC237980 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.9.5704-5708.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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New germ line proviral insertions are acquired at a high frequency by the progeny of SWR/J-RF/J hybrid female mice that carry the endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia proviruses Emv-16 and Emv-17. The tight linkage of these RF/J strain proviral loci has prevented genetic segregation of the retroviral genomes. Hence, it is not known whether both of these proviruses are capable of giving rise to new proviral insertions. We have molecularly cloned Emv-16 and Emv-17 and have characterized them in vitro and in vivo. Restriction enzyme analysis of the recombinant clones revealed that the proviral genomes are very similar to each other and closely resemble the wild-type AKR virus. A comparison of the flanking cellular DNA suggests that the Emv-16 and Emv-17 loci did not arise by simple duplication of a viral insertion site within the RF/J genome but most likely are independent integration events. Both proviruses produce infectious virus when transfected into NIH 3T3 cells, indicating that they are nondefective retroviruses. Exogenous infection of SWR/J mice with either Emv-16 or Emv-17 leads to viremia in the host animals, and in both cases, progeny of viremic females acquire new proviral insertions. The ability of these retroviruses to generate novel retroviral integration sites in the mouse genome provides a simple method for inducing insertional mutations in mice.
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- C Szabo
- Section of Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2703
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White HD, Green WR, Giné NR. Molecular cloning of infectious ecotropic murine leukemia virus AK7 from an emv-14-positive AKXL-5 mouse and the resistance of AK7 to recognition by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Virol 1993; 67:5045-50. [PMID: 8101231 PMCID: PMC237895 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.8.5045-5050.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The AKXL-5 recombinant inbred mouse strain is positive for the endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus emv-14, the only emv present in its germ line. emv-14 is of particular interest because spleen cells expressing emv-14 virus escape recognition by anti-AKR/Gross virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. We report here the isolation and characterization of a replication-competent emv clone, pAK7, derived from an AKXL-5 mouse. This clone is novel in that it encodes a variant ecotropic murine leukemia virus that, when expressed in SC.Kb target cells, fails to be recognized efficiently by anti-AKR/Gross virus cytotoxic T lymphocytes. The pAK7 clone can therefore be used to further probe mechanisms of escape from cell-mediated immunity.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- DNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Fibroblasts
- Genes, Viral
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/isolation & purification
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains/microbiology
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/microbiology
- Virion/genetics
- Virion/physiology
- Virus Integration
- Virus Replication
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- H D White
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756
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Thomas CY, Coppola MA, Nuckols JD, Lawrenz-Smith SC, Massey AC. An increase in disease latency is associated with a host-dependent selection for recombinant murine leukemia viruses with substitutions in the p15E (TM) gene. J Virol 1993; 67:294-304. [PMID: 8380077 PMCID: PMC237363 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.1.294-304.1993] [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: 01/30/2023] Open
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The genomes of recombinant murine leukemia viruses recovered from HRS/J (type I env recombinants) and CWD (type II env recombinants) mice have distinct envelope gene structures. To better understand the biologic significance of these differences, we examined the differences in the responses of HRS/J and CWD mice to inoculation with an oncogenic type II env recombinant. The CWD recombinant accelerated the onset of lymphoma in both strains, but the disease latency in the HRS/J mice was about 2 months longer. Analysis of the recombinant viruses in the HRS/J tumors revealed that the injected type II env recombinant had recombined in vivo with the endogenous ecotropic viruses to generate secondary recombinants with type I envelope genes. In another set of experiments, comparison of complete or partial DNA sequences of the envelope genes from six recombinant proviruses confirmed that the origins of the sequences that encode an amino-terminal region of the TM envelope protein, p15E, distinguish type I envelope genes from type II. Taken together with the results of previous studies, these observations suggest that the differences in the responses of HRS/J and CWD mice to the oncogenic type II env recombinant resulted from an interaction between the viral TM protein and a host factor expressed in HRS/J mice.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Recombinant/genetics
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Genes, Viral/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia, Experimental/etiology
- Lymphoma/etiology
- Mice
- Mice, Hairless/microbiology
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Proviruses/genetics
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic/genetics
- Selection, Genetic
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
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- C Y Thomas
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908
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Rich RF, Mayes BE, Abate MI, Green WR. Induction, via immunization with a monoclonal antiidiotypic antibody, of viral envelope specific Ab3 antisera that neutralize retrovirus infectivity. Viral Immunol 1993; 6:193-206. [PMID: 7507328 DOI: 10.1089/vim.1993.6.193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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We have developed five mouse monoclonal antiidiotypic antibodies to the 35/56 (Ab1) rat monoclonal that neutralizes retroviral infectivity by binding to the gp70f epitope of murine leukemia retrovirus. The anti-Id nature of these five Ab2s was evidenced by their inability to react with a panel of six other rat IgG2a kappa monoclonals isotype-matched to the 35/56 anti-gp70f mAb1, including two to the distinct epitopes "g" and "h" of gp70, or to normal rat IgG2a. On the basis of several competition assays four mAb2 were clearly either directed to the paratope of anti-gp70f mAb1 (.1C7, .1B, and .E) or not (.A, representing a noninternal image Ab2 alpha anti-Id). The P3E8 mAb2 was difficult to classify. Based on relative efficiency in these assays, .1C7 was chosen for further study, and upon injection was able to induce Ab3 responses in C57BL/6, BALB/c, and CBA mice. The fact that the Ab3 activity was detected in a competitive ELISA in which the hyperimmune antisera blocked the binding of Ab1 to Ab2, plus the ability to raise Ab3 neutralizing antibodies in three different mouse strains were consistent with .1C7 as an internal image Ab2 beta anti-Id. These results thus indicate the potential for internal-image monoclonal antiidiotypic antibody-based vaccines for retroviral diseases.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic/biosynthesis
- Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/biosynthesis
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibody Specificity/immunology
- Binding, Competitive/immunology
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Epitopes/immunology
- Flow Cytometry
- Immunization
- Immunoglobulin G/immunology
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/immunology
- Leukemia, Experimental/immunology
- Leukemia, Experimental/prevention & control
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Neutralization Tests
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Retroviridae Infections/immunology
- Retroviridae Infections/prevention & control
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
- Tumor Virus Infections/prevention & control
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
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- R F Rich
- Department of Microbiology and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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To determine whether ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) envelope glycoproteins are sufficient to cause cell-to-cell fusion when expressed in the absence of virus production, we used an ecotropic MuLV, AKV, to construct env expression vectors that lack the gag and pol genes. The rat cell line XC, which undergoes cell-to-cell fusion upon infection with ecotropic MuLV, was transfected with wild-type env expression vectors, and high levels of syncytium formation resulted. Transfection of the murine cell line NIH 3T3 with expression vectors containing the wild-type or mutated env region did not result in syncytium formation. Immunoprecipitation analysis of the envelope glycoproteins expressed in NIH 3T3 and XC cells showed that the mature surface glycoprotein expressed in XC cells was of a much lower apparent molecular weight than that expressed in NIH 3T3 cells. Further characterization showed that most if not all of this difference was the result of differences in glycosylation. Finally, site-directed mutagenesis was used to introduce several conservative and nonconservative changes into the amino-terminal region of the transmembrane protein. Analysis of the effect of these mutations confirmed that this region is a fusion domain.
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- J S Jones
- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
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Huper G, Marks JR, Wiener JR, Iglehart JD. Relative promoter activity in human mammary epithelial cells assayed by transient expression. IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY : JOURNAL OF THE TISSUE CULTURE ASSOCIATION 1992; 28A:730-4. [PMID: 1483964 DOI: 10.1007/bf02631061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Chimeric DNA expression vectors containing regulatory sequences proximal to the 5' end of coding sequences for mammalian genes provide valuable tools to study gene expression. Genes coding for easily measured products (reporter genes) can be used to study promoter strength and regulation of gene expression after transient expression of promoter-reporter constructs in mammalian cells. To determine the strength of a variety of mammalian and viral promoter-enhancer sequences in primary cultures of human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC), these sequences were fused to the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene and transfected into HMEC using strontium phosphate. The long terminal repeat (LTR) of the endogenous murine leukemia virus AKR-623 was the most potent promoter of transient CAT expression in HMEC. A number of commonly available promoter sequences displayed a wide range of activities in these cells. The glucocorticoid responsive LTR promoter from the murine mammary tumor virus modulated expression of CAT and was sensitive to the concentration of dexamethasone in the growth media. In a similar fashion, the regulatory sequences from the murine metallothionein-1 gene retained responsiveness to zinc concentration in the growth media.
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- G Huper
- Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Murine helix-loop-helix transcriptional activator proteins binding to the E-box motif of the Akv murine leukemia virus enhancer identified by cDNA cloning. Mol Cell Biol 1992. [PMID: 1321336 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.8.3449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The enhancer region of Akv murine leukemia virus contains the sequence motif ACAGATGG. This sequence is homologous to the E-box motif originally defined as a regulatory element in the enhancers of immunoglobulin mu and kappa genes. We have used double-stranded oligonucleotide probes, corresponding to the E box of the murine leukemia virus Akv, to screen a randomly primed lambda gt11 cDNA expression library made from mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblast RNA. We have identified seven lambda clones expressing DNA-binding proteins representing two different genes termed ALF1 and ALF2. The results of sequencing ALF2 cDNA suggests that we have recovered the gene for the basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor A1, the murine analog of the human transcription factor E47. The cDNA sequence of ALF1 codes for a new member of the basic-helix-loop-helix protein family. Two splice variants of ALF1 cDNA have been found, differing by a 72-bp insertion, coding for putative proteins of 682 and 706 amino acids. The two ALF1 mRNAs are expressed at various levels in mouse tissues. In vitro DNA binding assays, using prokaryotically expressed ALF1 proteins, demonstrated specific binding of the ALF1 proteins to the Akv murine leukemia virus E-box motif ACAGATGG. Expression in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts of GAL4-ALF1 chimeric protein stimulated expression from a minimal promoter linked to a GAL4 binding site, indicating the existence of a transcriptional activator domain in ALF1.
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Nielsen AL, Pallisgaard N, Pedersen FS, Jørgensen P. Murine helix-loop-helix transcriptional activator proteins binding to the E-box motif of the Akv murine leukemia virus enhancer identified by cDNA cloning. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:3449-59. [PMID: 1321336 PMCID: PMC364594 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.8.3449-3459.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The enhancer region of Akv murine leukemia virus contains the sequence motif ACAGATGG. This sequence is homologous to the E-box motif originally defined as a regulatory element in the enhancers of immunoglobulin mu and kappa genes. We have used double-stranded oligonucleotide probes, corresponding to the E box of the murine leukemia virus Akv, to screen a randomly primed lambda gt11 cDNA expression library made from mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblast RNA. We have identified seven lambda clones expressing DNA-binding proteins representing two different genes termed ALF1 and ALF2. The results of sequencing ALF2 cDNA suggests that we have recovered the gene for the basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor A1, the murine analog of the human transcription factor E47. The cDNA sequence of ALF1 codes for a new member of the basic-helix-loop-helix protein family. Two splice variants of ALF1 cDNA have been found, differing by a 72-bp insertion, coding for putative proteins of 682 and 706 amino acids. The two ALF1 mRNAs are expressed at various levels in mouse tissues. In vitro DNA binding assays, using prokaryotically expressed ALF1 proteins, demonstrated specific binding of the ALF1 proteins to the Akv murine leukemia virus E-box motif ACAGATGG. Expression in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts of GAL4-ALF1 chimeric protein stimulated expression from a minimal promoter linked to a GAL4 binding site, indicating the existence of a transcriptional activator domain in ALF1.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3 Cells
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacteriophage lambda/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- Binding Sites
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- DNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Gene Library
- Genes, Viral
- Humans
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Protein Binding
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- TCF Transcription Factors
- Trans-Activators/genetics
- Transcription Factor 7-Like 1 Protein
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
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- A L Nielsen
- Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Massey AC, Coppola MA, Thomas CY. Origin of pathogenic determinants of recombinant murine leukemia viruses: analysis of Bxv-1-related xenotropic viruses from CWD mice. J Virol 1990; 64:5491-9. [PMID: 2170683 PMCID: PMC248601 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.11.5491-5499.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The acquisition of U3 region sequences derived from the endogenous xenotropic provirus Bxv-1 appears to be an important step in the generation of leukemogenic recombinant viruses in AKR, HRS, C58, and some CWD mice. We report here that each of three CWD lymphomas produced infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus related to Bxv-1. In Southern blot experiments, these proviruses hybridized to probes that were specific for the xenotropic envelope and Bxv-1 U3 region sequences. Nucleotide sequence analysis of a cloned CWD xenotropic provirus, CWM-S-5X, revealed that the envelope gene was closely related to but distinct from those of other known xenotropic viruses. In addition, the U3 region of CWM-S-5X contained a viral enhancer sequence that was identical to that found in MCF 247, a recombinant AKR virus that is thought to contain the Bxv-1 enhancer. Finally, restriction enzyme sites in the CWM-S-5X provirus were analogous to those reported within Bxv-1. These results establish that the virus progeny of Bxv-1 have the potential to donate pathogenic enhancer sequences to recombinant polytropic murine leukemia viruses. Interestingly, the three CWD polytropic viruses that were isolated from the same tumor cells that produced the Bxv-1-like viruses had not incorporated Bxv-1 sequences into the U3 region.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Gene Products, env
- Genes, Viral
- Genes, env
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Lymphoma/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains/microbiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Recombination, Genetic
- Restriction Mapping
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- A C Massey
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908
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White HD, Robbins MD, Green WR. Mechanism of escape of endogenous murine leukemia virus emv-14 from recognition by anti-AKR/Gross virus cytolytic T lymphocytes. J Virol 1990; 64:2608-19. [PMID: 1692345 PMCID: PMC249439 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.6.2608-2619.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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It was previously shown that spleen cells from endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus emv-14+ AKXL-5 mice fail to stimulate an anti-AKR/Gross virus cytolytic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response in a mixed lymphocyte culture with primed C57BL/6 responder spleen cells, whereas spleen cells from AKXL strains carrying the very similar emv-11 provirus do stimulate a response (Green and Graziano, Immunogenetics 23:106-110, 1986). We wished to determine whether the lack of response with AKXL-5 spleen cells was at the level of recognition between effector cell and target cell and whether the relevant mutation was within the emv-14 provirus. It is shown here that EMV-negative SC-1 fibroblast cells transfected with the major histocompatibility complex class I Kb gene and infected with virus isolated from the AKXL-5 strain (SC.Kb/5 cells) were not lysed by H-2b-restricted anti-AKR/Gross virus CTL. SC.Kb cells infected with virus isolated from emv-11+ strains, however, were efficiently lysed by anti-AKR/Gross virus CTL, indicating that there is nothing intrinsic to EMV-infected SC.Kb cells that would prevent them from being recognized and lysed efficiently by anti-AKR/Gross virus CTL. Analysis of virus expression for the infected SC.Kb cells by XC plaque assay and by flow cytometry indicated that emv-14 virus expression for SC.Kb/5 cells was not significantly different from that for emv-11-containing SC.Kb/9 or SC.Kb/21 cells. These data show that the mutation responsible for the lack of CTL recognition and lysis is at the level of recognition between target cell and effector cell. Furthermore, these data strongly suggest that the mutation is within the emv-14 genome. Flow cytometry experiments with monoclonal antibodies against a number of viral determinants indicated that there was no gross mutation detectable in the viral determinants analyzed. The data suggest that the relevant mutation may be a point mutation or a small insertion or deletion within a coding sequence that is critical for CTL recognition.
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MESH Headings
- AKR murine leukemia virus/immunology
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antigens, Viral/analysis
- Cell Line
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- DNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Epitopes/analysis
- Flow Cytometry
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- RNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Rats
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Transfection
- Viral Plaque Assay
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- H D White
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756
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Coppola MA, Thomas CY. A host gene regulates the structure of the transmembrane envelope protein of murine leukemia viruses. J Exp Med 1990; 171:1739-52. [PMID: 2159051 PMCID: PMC2187913 DOI: 10.1084/jem.171.5.1739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Heterogeneity in the structure of the envelope proteins has been observed in many human and animal retroviruses and may influence pathogenicity. However, the biological significance of this heterogeneity and the mechanisms by which it is generated are poorly understood. We have studied a mouse model in which the envelope gene structure of lymphoma-associated viruses appears to be controlled by a single host gene. The inoculation of HRS and CWD mice with a leukemogenic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) results in recombination between the injected virus and envelope gene sequences of endogenous retroviruses. The genomes of HRS (class I) env recombinants and CWD (class II) env recombinants differ in the sequences encoding the NH2-terminal portion of the transmembrane envelope protein (TM). We have shown that an HRS gene linked to the MHC on chromosome 17 mediates a dominant selection for recombinant retroviruses with the class I envelope gene structure. CBA mice, which share the H-2k haplotype with HRS, also carry the dominant allele at this locus. This system provides a useful model for studies of host factors involved in the selection of specific variants of pathogenic retroviruses.
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- M A Coppola
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908
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Fulton R, Plumb M, Shield L, Neil JC. Structural diversity and nuclear protein binding sites in the long terminal repeats of feline leukemia virus. J Virol 1990; 64:1675-82. [PMID: 2157050 PMCID: PMC249304 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.4.1675-1682.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The long terminal repeat U3 sequences were determined for multiple feline leukemia virus proviruses isolated from naturally occurring T-cell tumors. Heterogeneity was evident, even among proviruses cloned from individual tumors. Proviruses with one, two, or three repeats of the long terminal repeat enhancer sequences coexisted in one tumor, while two proviruses with distinct direct repeats were found in another. The enhancer repeats are characteristic of retrovirus variants with accelerated leukemogenic potential and occur between -155 and -244 base pairs relative to the RNA cap site. The termini of the repeats occur at or near sequence features which have been recognized at other retrovirus recombinational junctions. In vitro footprint analysis of the feline leukemia virus enhancer revealed three major nuclear protein binding sites, located at consensus sequences for the simian virus 40 core enhancer, the nuclear factor 1 binding site, and an indirect repeat which is homologous to the PEA2 binding site in the polyomavirus enhancer. Only the simian virus 40 core enhancer sequence is present in all of the enhancer repeats. Cell type differences in binding activities to the three motifs may underlie the selective process which leads to outgrowth of viruses with specific sequence duplications.
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- R Fulton
- Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland
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Brown GD, Egan G, Dowling T, Meruelo D. Increased H-2Dd expression following infection by a molecularly cloned ecotropic MuLV. Immunogenetics 1990; 31:94-103. [PMID: 2154401 DOI: 10.1007/bf00661219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The biological consequences of radiation leukemia virus (RadLV) infection include the stimulation of H-2Dd antigen expression in resistant mouse strains and thymoma induction in susceptible strains. In an effort to understand the genetic basis of these phenomena, the integrated ecotropic RadLV genome has been examined in a number of primary RadLV-induced tumors, as well as thymomas adapted to in vitro passage; considerable heterogeneity was observed. Examination of these polymorphic viral sequences should help define the viral gene(s) involved in the biological effects of RadLV infection; toward this end, integrated RadLV genomes were molecularly cloned and examined. The genomes and their flanking sequence were characterized by restriction enzyme analysis. Three unique viral genomes were obtained which represent four integration sites. The three RadLV genomes are shown to carry polymorphisms of the original tumor. Following DNA transfection, one of the three genomes replicated in and reinfected both mouse thymocytes and fibroblasts, but not mink fibroblasts in vitro. Virus encoded by the other two DNA genomes could not be recovered following transfection into any of the three cell types. One of these two apparently defective retroviruses encodes a truncated p15E molecule, while the other has elongated long terminal repeats (LTRs). The non-defective ecotropic isolate was collected from in vitro tissue culture supernatants, concentrated, and used to infect mice. Thymocytes of infected, resistant mice were shown to express elevated levels of H-2Dd antigen as early as 12 days post infection, a hallmark of RadLV infection.
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- G D Brown
- New York University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, NY 10016
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Ruegg CL, Monell CR, Strand M. Identification, using synthetic peptides, of the minimum amino acid sequence from the retroviral transmembrane protein p15E required for inhibition of lymphoproliferation and its similarity to gp21 of human T-lymphotropic virus types I and II. J Virol 1989; 63:3250-6. [PMID: 2746730 PMCID: PMC250895 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.8.3250-3256.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Synthetic peptides containing portions of a highly conserved region of retroviral transmembrane proteins of human and animal retroviruses were tested for their ability to inhibit lymphoproliferation to determine the minimum amino acid sequence required. The previously reported immunosuppression mediated by the peptide CKS-17 was confirmed and further localized to a sequence of eight residues essentially identical to the sequence present in the transmembrane protein gp21 of human T-lymphotropic virus types I and II (HTLV-I and -II). To substantiate the physiological relevance of the inhibition of lymphoproliferation observed with the synthetic peptides and to relate this activity to the intact protein, we purified the Rauscher murine leukemia virus transmembrane protein p15E by immunoaffinity chromatography and report that this purified component presented in the form of protein micelles inhibited the interleukin-2-dependent proliferation of the murine T-cell line CTLL-2 in a dose-dependent manner, with a half-maximal inhibitory dose (ID50) of approximately 16 nM. In comparison, the ID50 concentration of a recombinant form of p15E required to inhibit lymphoproliferation was approximately 2.2 microM. The results reported here support the hypothesis that the transmembrane protein gp21 of HTLV-I and -II participates in the mechanism of immunosuppression previously reported for the transmembrane proteins of feline leukemia virus and other animal retroviruses. Thus, the transmembrane protein of HTLV-I, the etiological agent of adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma, may be partially responsible for the immunocompromised clinical course of this disease that results in fatal opportunistic infections in a majority of cases.
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- C L Ruegg
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Silver J, Keerikatte V. Novel use of polymerase chain reaction to amplify cellular DNA adjacent to an integrated provirus. J Virol 1989; 63:1924-8. [PMID: 2704070 PMCID: PMC250604 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.5.1924-1928.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We describe a modification of the polymerase chain reaction technique which allows amplification of cellular DNA adjacent to an integrated provirus given sequence information for the provirus only. The modified technique should be generally useful for studies of insertional mutagenesis and other situations in which one wishes to isolate DNA adjacent to a region of known sequence.
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- J Silver
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Nairn RS, McIntyre BW, Richie ER, Allison JP. Characterization of env gene recombination in x-ray--induced thymomas of C57BL/6 mice. Mol Carcinog 1989; 2:126-30. [PMID: 2675902 DOI: 10.1002/mc.2940020304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A role for specific recombination events at the env region of endogenous murine leukemia virus (MuLV) sequences in radiation carcinogenesis in C57BL mice has been suggested by a number of studies. We characterized env-related cell surface antigens from a primary, x-ray--induced, and several transplanted C57BL/6 thymomas of viral and radiation etiologies by immunoprecipitation and two-dimensional peptide mapping. DNA from lymphoma cells was also analyzed by Southern blotting for evidence of mink cell focus-forming (MCF) type env recombination events. Although gp70 molecules with novel structural determinants were found on all transplanted lymphomas examined, expression of novel env antigens was variable among these lymphomas, and there was a lack of correlation of characteristic MCF-type env recombination events in endogenous retrovirus DNA sequences with novel env antigens on lymphoma cell surfaces. Neither novel gp70 antigens nor MCF-type env provirus recombinant structures were consistent features of the C57BL/6 thymomas of radiation etiology examined in this study, even though MCF-type env recombination events have been suggested as etiologically significant in MuLV-mediated lymphomagenesis in both RadLV and x-ray--induced tumors in C57BL/6 mice.
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- R S Nairn
- Department of Carcinogenesis, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville
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Jørgensen EC, Kjeldgaard NO, Pedersen FS, Jørgensen P. A nucleotide substitution in the gag N terminus of the endogenous ecotropic DBA/2 virus prevents Pr65gag myristylation and virus replication. J Virol 1988; 62:3217-23. [PMID: 2841473 PMCID: PMC253440 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.9.3217-3223.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The endogenous ecotropic provirus Emv-3 present in DBA/2 mice is poorly expressed in the animal, as well as in cell cultures. Transfection of proviral DNA into NIH 3T3 cells localized the expression defect to the 5' region of the viral genome, spanning the untranslated region and the N-terminal part of the gag gene. Comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the Emv-3 provirus with the sequence of the highly infectious Akv murine leukemia virus revealed three nucleotide differences within the gag coding region. One of these differences was found in codon 3 of the gag polyprotein, where a Gln codon is seen in Akv and a Pro codon is differences was found in codon 3 of the gag polyprotein, where a Gln codon is seen in Akv and a Pro codon is seen in Emv-3. By site-directed mutagenesis, we showed that the defect of Emv-3 expression indeed is localized to codon 3 of the gag gene. The gag polyprotein of mammalian type C retrovirus contains myristic acid covalently linked to the N-terminal glycine. This myristylation is not seen in the Emv-3-coded gag polyprotein. We showed that the in vitro-mutagenized Emv-3 genome containing a Gln codon at position 3 of the gag gene yields a myristylated gag polyprotein. Thus, it seems most likely that the defect of expression of the Emv-3 provirus is due to the presence of a proline is position 3 of the gag polyprotein, preventing the myristylation.
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- E C Jørgensen
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Sithanandam G, Rapp UR. A single point mutation in the envelope gene is responsible for replication and XC fusion deficiency of the endogenous ecotropic C3H/He murine leukemia virus and for its repair in culture. J Virol 1988; 62:932-43. [PMID: 2828688 PMCID: PMC253652 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.3.932-943.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The molecular basis has been determined for differences in infectivity and XC phenotype of endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus of the low-leukemia mouse strain C3H/He, its relative in the high-leukemia mouse strain AKR, and highly infectious, XC-positive C3H virus variants selected in vitro. Endogenous ecotropic type C virus induced by iododeoxyuridine from the nontransformed C3H/10T1/2 cell line is XC negative and replication deficient. In contrast, viruses produced late after iododeoxyuridine induction in chemically transformed C3H/10T1/2 cells (MCA5) are XC positive and infectious. XC-negative viruses can be converted to XC-positive viruses by being grown in certain transformed cell lines. We have cloned the endogenous ecotropic provirus of C3H/He from MCA5 cells, which is XC negative and replication deficient, as well as two XC-positive C3H proviruses derived by in vitro conversion. Fragment exchange between the XC-negative molecular clone p110 and the XC-positive AKR virus clone p623 revealed that the defect in p110 lies 3' of the SalI site located in the pol region. Nucleotide sequencing established that the C3H p110 provirus was integrated within the R region of an endogenous VL30 long terminal repeat (LTR) in reverse orientation and that the virus differed from the infectious AKR p623 provirus by a point mutation, substituting Lys for Arg at the potential precursor cleavage site for gp70 and p15E. In vitro-converted XC-positive C3H proviral clones 3211 and 4211 are identical to XC-negative C3H p110, except that they have Arg at this site and the normal cleavage site is thus regenerated in these clones. The XC-negative C3H p110 was blocked in processing of Pr85env, whereas clones 3211 and 4211 had normal cleavage of the env precursor into gp70. Both the XC-negative C3H provirus and the in vitro-converted XC-positive C3H proviruses had a single copy of a 99-base-pair enhancer element in the LTR, whereas two copies of this sequence are present in the AKR proviral LTR. Substitution of Arg for Lys at the envelope precursor processing site of C3H p110 by site-directed mutagenesis is sufficient by itself to convert the virus to the XC-positive replication-competent phenotype. Thus, we have established that a single point mutation at the processing site of the envelope precursor protein Pr85 is responsible for the difference in the infectivity and XC phenotype of endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus from C3H/He and AKR mice and that the basis for in vitro conversion is a mutation at this site.
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- G Sithanandam
- Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21701
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Mucenski ML, Bedigian HG, Shull MM, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA. Comparative molecular genetic analysis of lymphomas from six inbred mouse strains. J Virol 1988; 62:839-46. [PMID: 2828679 PMCID: PMC253640 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.3.839-846.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Previous studies of 21 highly lymphomatous AKXD recombinant inbred mouse strains demonstrated correlations between lymphoma type, the somatic proviral DNA content of the lymphoma, and the frequency of virally induced rearrangements in eight common sites of viral integration (Myc, Pim-i, Pvt-1, Mlvi-1, Mlvi-2, Fis-1, Myb, and Evi-1). In this study we analyzed lymphomas from six inbred mouse strains, AKR/J, C58/J, HRS/J (hr/hr and hr/+), SJL/J, SEA/GnJ, and CWD/LeAgl, to determine whether these correlations are also evident in these strains. Mice of the AKR/J, C58/J, and HRS/J strains died exclusively of T-cell lymphomas. In contrast to earlier studies which showed a great disparity in the rate and incidence of lymphomas in HRS/J hr/hr and HRS/J hr/+ mice, we found a high incidence of T-cell lymphomas and the same mean age of onset of disease in both strains. SJL/J mice died primarily of pre-B-cell lymphomas, whereas CWD/LeAgl and SEA/GnJ mice died primarily of B-cell lymphomas. Somatically acquired mink cell focus-forming proviruses were detected only in T-cell lymphomas, whereas ecotropic proviruses were found in lymphomas from all hematopoietic cell lineages. No rearrangements were detected in the Fis-1, Mlvi-2, and Myb loci, whereas rearrangements were detected in the Mlvi-1, Myc, Pim-1, Pvt-1, and Evi-1 loci. Most rearrangements were found in T-cell lymphomas, and many were virally induced. These results are similar to those we obtained previously for lymphomas of 21 highly lymphomatous AKXD recombinant inbred mouse strains.
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- M L Mucenski
- National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Bionetics Research, Inc., Maryland 21701
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Identification of a common ecotropic viral integration site, Evi-1, in the DNA of AKXD murine myeloid tumors. Mol Cell Biol 1988. [PMID: 2827004 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.1.301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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AKXD-23 recombinant inbred mice develop myeloid tumors at a high frequency, unlike other AKXD recombinant inbred strains which develop B-cell lymphomas, T-cell lymphomas, or both. AKXD-23 myeloid tumors are monoclonal, and their DNA contains somatically acquired proviruses, suggesting that they are retrovirally induced. We identified a common site of ecotropic proviral integration that is present in the DNA of all AKXD-23 myeloid tumors that were analyzed and in the DNA of all myeloid tumors that occur in AKXD strains other than AKXD-23. We designated this locus Evi-1 (ecotropic viral integration site 1). Rearrangements in the Evi-1 locus were also detected in the DNA of a number of myeloid tumors and myeloid cell lines isolated from strains other than AKXD. In contrast, few Evi-1 rearrangements were detected in the DNA of T- or B-cell tumors. Evi-1 may thus identify a new proto-oncogene locus that is involved in myeloid disease.
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Laigret F, Repaske R, Boulukos K, Rabson AB, Khan AS. Potential progenitor sequences of mink cell focus-forming (MCF) murine leukemia viruses: ecotropic, xenotropic, and MCF-related viral RNAs are detected concurrently in thymus tissues of AKR mice. J Virol 1988; 62:376-86. [PMID: 2826802 PMCID: PMC250546 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.2.376-386.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Leukemogenic mink cell focus-forming (MCF) viruses of AKR mice are believed to originate in thymic tissue via recombination between ecotropic, xenotropiclike, and endogenous MCF-related murine leukemia virus (MuLV) sequences. We have previously used a synthetic 16-base-pair MCF env-specific oligomer probe to identify subgenomic MCF-related mRNAs present in the thymus tissues of AKR mice prior to the appearance of full-length (8.4-kilobase [kb]) recombinant MCF viral RNAs (A. S. Khan, F. Laigret, and C. P. Rodi, J. Virol. 61:876-882, 1987). These potential MCF env precursors consisted of 7.2-, 3.0-, and 1.8-kb RNA species. In this study, we have determined the structure of the MCF-related mRNAs on the basis of Northern (RNA) blot hybridization analyses by using 10 different MuLV subgenomic DNA probes, determined the nucleotide sequence of a cloned cDNA segment representing the 3' portion of the 7.2-kb mRNA, and studied the expression of ecotropic and xenotropic MuLV sequences by using env-specific DNA probes. The results indicated that ecotropic, xenotropic, and MCF-related transcripts were constitutively and concurrently expressed exclusively in thymus tissue of 2-month-old AKR mice prior to detection of MCF viral RNAs. We have molecularly characterized these thymic MuLV RNAs, which may participate in formation of recombinant MCF viruses; a novel recombinant ecotropic viral RNA was identified as a putative intermediate in the stepwise generation of leukemogenic MCF MuLVs. We have also described the unique structure of the 6.0-kb MCF-related RNAs which were expressed specifically in liver and kidney tissues of AKR mice; these RNAs contained an upstream non-MuLV transcriptional regulatory element.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Autoradiography
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Genes, Viral
- Kinetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred AKR
- Mink Cell Focus-Inducing Viruses/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- RNA Precursors/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Thymus Gland/microbiology
- Transcription, Genetic
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- F Laigret
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Mucenski ML, Taylor BA, Ihle JN, Hartley JW, Morse HC, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG. Identification of a common ecotropic viral integration site, Evi-1, in the DNA of AKXD murine myeloid tumors. Mol Cell Biol 1988; 8:301-8. [PMID: 2827004 PMCID: PMC363121 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.1.301-308.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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AKXD-23 recombinant inbred mice develop myeloid tumors at a high frequency, unlike other AKXD recombinant inbred strains which develop B-cell lymphomas, T-cell lymphomas, or both. AKXD-23 myeloid tumors are monoclonal, and their DNA contains somatically acquired proviruses, suggesting that they are retrovirally induced. We identified a common site of ecotropic proviral integration that is present in the DNA of all AKXD-23 myeloid tumors that were analyzed and in the DNA of all myeloid tumors that occur in AKXD strains other than AKXD-23. We designated this locus Evi-1 (ecotropic viral integration site 1). Rearrangements in the Evi-1 locus were also detected in the DNA of a number of myeloid tumors and myeloid cell lines isolated from strains other than AKXD. In contrast, few Evi-1 rearrangements were detected in the DNA of T- or B-cell tumors. Evi-1 may thus identify a new proto-oncogene locus that is involved in myeloid disease.
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- M L Mucenski
- Mammalian Genetics Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21701
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Stoye JP, Coffin JM. The four classes of endogenous murine leukemia virus: structural relationships and potential for recombination. J Virol 1987; 61:2659-69. [PMID: 3039159 PMCID: PMC255766 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.61.9.2659-2669.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The process by which leukemogenic viruses are generated during the lifetime of certain strains of mice is poorly understood. We have therefore set out to define all the murine leukemia virus-related endogenous proviruses of HRS/J mice. We have cloned 34 different proviral fragments and their flanking cellular sequences. These have been characterized by restriction enzyme analysis, by fingerprinting in vitro-synthesized RNA, and by DNA sequencing. We conclude that all the proviruses can be assigned into one of four different classes: the previously characterized ecotropic, xenotropic, and polytropic viruses, as well as a new class we have termed modified polytropic viruses. The xenotropic, polytropic, and modified polytropic classes are closely related to one another, but as a group they differ considerably from the ecotropic class. Sequence analyses show that both polytropic and modified polytropic sequences can contribute env sequences to recombinant viruses.
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The murine leukemia virus envelope protein is synthesized as a precursor molecule, Pr85env, which is proteolytically cleaved at an arginine residue to produce two mature envelope proteins, gp70 and p15(E). The results presented here indicate that mutation to lysine of the arginine found at the envelope precursor cleavage site results in a precursor which is cleaved with an efficiency at least 10-fold lower than the efficiency with which the wild-type protein is cleaved. This mutation has been used to investigate the requirement for envelope protein processing in various aspects of retroviral infection. Viruses produced by cells transfected with mutant proviral clones are approximately 10-fold less infectious than wild-type viruses. Mutant viruses are incapable of inducing XC cell syncytium formation and are 100-fold less efficient than wild-type viruses at rendering cells resistant to superinfection. Envelope glycoproteins bearing the lysine mutation are found in reduced amounts on the surface of infected cells, and as a result mutant virions contain significantly less envelope protein than do wild-type virions. The phenotypic effects of the processing mutation described here are most likely the result of this paucity of envelope glycoproteins in virions carrying the mutation.
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Staal SP. Molecular cloning of the akt oncogene and its human homologues AKT1 and AKT2: amplification of AKT1 in a primary human gastric adenocarcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:5034-7. [PMID: 3037531 PMCID: PMC305241 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.14.5034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 542] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A previous report described the isolation of a directly transforming retrovirus, AKT8, from a spontaneous thymoma of an AKR mouse. The AKT8 provirus has now been molecularly cloned from a transformed, nonproducer cell line. The virus genome contains both viral and nonviral, cell-related sequences; the nonviral sequence has been designated v-akt, the presumed viral oncogene of the AKT8 virus. This gene lacks homology to the 16 other oncogenes tested. The cloned provirus has undergone a partial deletion, during cell passage in vitro, that prevents direct demonstration of the transforming ability of this molecular clone. Two human homologues of the v-akt oncogene, AKT1 and AKT2, were cloned. A survey of 225 human tumors for changes involving AKT1 led to the discovery of a 20-fold amplification of this gene in one of the five gastric adenocarcinomas tested. The results demonstrate that AKT8 has the characteristic structure of a directly transforming retrovirus and that it contains a gene derived from highly conserved cellular sequences that may be involved in the pathogenesis of some human malignancies.
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O'Neill RR, Hartley JW, Repaske R, Kozak CA. Amphotropic proviral envelope sequences are absent from the Mus germ line. J Virol 1987; 61:2225-31. [PMID: 3035222 PMCID: PMC283686 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.61.7.2225-2231.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We derived an amphotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) type-specific probe for use in Southern blot hybridizations with cloned and genomic DNAs. A 133-base-pair RsaI-RsaI fragment from the 5' env region of the amphotropic viral isolate 4070A was subcloned into M13mp18 and radiolabeled in vitro. The probe detected the proviral DNAs in mink cells infected with seven different amphotropic MuLV isolates. The probe did not cross hybridize with the DNAs of molecular clones of ecotropic, mink cell focus-forming, or xenotropic MuLVs; nor did it anneal to the proviral DNAs of four xenotropic or six mink cell focus-forming viral isolates grown in mink cells. DNAs of 12 inbred laboratory mouse strains and more than 15 different wild mouse species and subspecies were examined for the presence of endogenous amphotropic env-related fragments. Amphotropic env-related sequences were found only in the DNAs of wild mice trapped in southern California in an area previously shown to harbor mice producing infectious amphotropic virus. Restriction enzyme analyses of DNAs from these mice showed that amphotropic sequences were not present as germ line copies but were the result of congenital or horizontal infection or both in this population. The DNAs of 11 various mammalian and avian species, including both natural predators of mice and squabs from the farms with virus-positive mice, lacked amphotropic envelope-related sequences.
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Fredrickson TN, O'Neill RR, Rutledge RA, Theodore TS, Martin MA, Ruscetti SK, Austin JB, Hartley JW. Biologic and molecular characterization of two newly isolated ras-containing murine leukemia viruses. J Virol 1987; 61:2109-19. [PMID: 3035212 PMCID: PMC254231 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.61.7.2109-2119.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A murine sarcoma virus (MSV) was recovered from an (NFS X NS.C58v-1) F1 mouse which developed splenic sarcoma and erythroleukemia 6 months after inoculation with a mink cell focus-inducing murine leukemia virus (MuLV) isolated from an NFS mouse infected with a wild mouse ecotropic MuLV. The MSV, designated NS.C58 MSV-1, induced foci of transformation in mouse and rat fibroblasts, and inoculation of mice of various strains 2 weeks of age or younger resulted in erythroleukemia and sarcomatous lesions in spleen, lymph node, and brain. The MSV provirus was molecularly cloned from a genomic library prepared from transformed non-producer rat cells. The 8.8-kilobase proviral DNA contained a 1.0-kilobase p21 ras coding segment which replaced most of the gp70-encoding portion of an MuLV, most likely the endogenous C58v-1 ecotropic virus. The ras oncogene is closely related to v-Ha-ras by hybridization, expression of p21 protein, and nucleotide sequence. It is nearly identical in sequence to v-bas, the only previously described transduced, activated mouse c-ras. At position 12 in the p21 coding region, arginine is substituted for the naturally occurring glycine present in c-ras. A second MSV isolate is described which is similar to NS.C58 MSV-1 except for a 100- to 200-base-pair deletion in the noncoding region of the ras-containing insert.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Brain Neoplasms/microbiology
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Genes, Viral
- Helper Viruses/genetics
- Helper Viruses/isolation & purification
- Hemangiosarcoma/microbiology
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/isolation & purification
- Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute/microbiology
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains/microbiology
- Mink Cell Focus-Inducing Viruses/isolation & purification
- Oncogene Protein p21(ras)
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral/genetics
- Oncogenes
- Sarcoma Viruses, Murine/genetics
- Sarcoma Viruses, Murine/isolation & purification
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Splenic Neoplasms/microbiology
- Transduction, Genetic
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