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Significance of virus particles observed in spontaneous and induced tumors of the syrian hamster. BIBLIOTHECA HAEMATOLOGICA 2015:559-65. [PMID: 4376383 DOI: 10.1159/000391752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Quantitation, in vitro propagation, and characterization of preleukemic cells induced by radiation leukemia virus. Cancer Res 1991; 51:2179-84. [PMID: 2009536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Intrathymic (i.t.) inoculation of radiation leukemia virus into C57BL/6 mice induces a population of preleukemic (PL) cells that can progress into mature thymic lymphomas upon transfer into syngeneic recipients. A minimum of 10(3) PL thymic cells are required to induce lymphomas in the recipient. Most of the individual lymphomas developed in mice which were inoculated with cells of a single PL thymus, derived from different T-cell precursors. PL thymic cells could be grown in vitro on a feeder layer consisting of splenic stromal cells. Growth medium was supplemented with supernatant harvested from an established radiation leukemia virus-induced lymphoma cell line (SR4). The in vitro-grown PL cells were characterized as Thy-1+, CD4+, CD8- T-cells, most of which expressed radiation leukemia virus antigens. Cultured PL cells were found to be nontumorigenic, based on their inability to form s.c. tumors. However, these cells could develop into thymic lymphomas if inoculated i.t. into syngeneic recipients. A culture of PL cells, maintained for 2 mo, showed clonal T-cell receptor arrangement. Lymphomas which developed in several recipient mice upon injection with these PL cells were found to possess the same T-cell receptor arrangement. These results indicate that PL cells can be adapted for in vitro growth while maintaining their preleukemic character.
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Production of interleukin 3 by spleen cells in immunodeficient C57BL/6 mice after injection of RadLV-Rs viral complex. Biomed Pharmacother 1991; 45:197-202. [PMID: 1657237 DOI: 10.1016/0753-3322(91)90108-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Injection of RadLV-Rs viral complex to C57BL/6 mice results in massive enlargement of lymphoid organs. The polyclonal T and B populations which proliferate in spleen and lymph nodes display severely impaired immune functions. Several data suggest that development of this immunodeficiency syndrome is dependent on the presence of T cells whose functions are progressively altered. In contrast, the erythro-myeloid populations and the stem cell compartment are not deeply modified, suggesting that the production of the lymphokines involved in their regulation is not altered. Interleukin 3 (IL-3) is mainly involved in this regulation. Thus, the purpose of the present experiment was to evaluate the IL-3 production: in RadLV-Rs injected mice IL-3 production is decreased at the cellular level but if it is evaluated by taking into account the increase of spleen cellularity, it is initially decreased and later on, above the normal value.
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Lack of evidence for the involvement of type-C and type-B retroviruses in radiation leukemogenesis of NFS mice. Radiat Res 1990; 121:267-73. [PMID: 1690435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Southern blot analysis revealed no difference between the DNA from radiation-induced thymic lymphomas and DNA from normal NFS mice. The probes used in the Southern blot analyses used a murine leukemia virus (MuLV) env DNA probe (pXenv), which specifically hybridizes with xenotropic and recombinant viral env genes, and mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) DNA probes (MMTV gag-pol, MMTV env, and MMTV LTR). This suggests that radiation leukemogenesis was not associated with gross alteration of the organization of these retroviral genomes. In DNA from radiation-induced thymic lymphoma, there was no indication of gross rearrangement in the common integration site of MuLV, pim-1, or in the common integration sites of MMTV, int-1 and int-2. Dot blot analysis of RNA from radiation-induced thymic lymphomas and normal thymuses demonstrated that there was no substantial difference between them in the expression of retroviral sequences, pim-1, pvt-1, int-1, or int-2, although transcripts that could be hybridized to the retroviral sequences were slightly elevated in some radiation-induced thymic lymphomas. These results show that radiation leukemogenesis does not appear to involve the activation of endogenous type-C and type-B retroviruses.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Gene Rearrangement
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/isolation & purification
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/genetics
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- Lymphoma/etiology
- Lymphoma/genetics
- Lymphoma/microbiology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/isolation & purification
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/genetics
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- RNA/genetics
- Thymus Neoplasms/etiology
- Thymus Neoplasms/genetics
- Thymus Neoplasms/microbiology
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Evidence of recombinant ecotropic provirus integration in thymic lymphomas induced by direct or indirect radiation effects. Leuk Res 1989; 13:131-43. [PMID: 2538683 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(89)90137-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Several investigators described the occurrence of ecotropic recombinant proviruses in the DNA of in-vivo or in-vitro propagated radio-induced lymphomas, but such proviruses were never detected in primary tumors. To assess their biological significance in the tumorigenic process, we reinvestigated the presence of new proviruses chiefly in primary radio-induced tumors and in models of radioleukemogenesis which could give additional support for their role. Such models included thymic lymphomas originating after (i) graft of non-irradiated thymuses in thymectomized irradiated mice and (ii) the injection of a B-ecotropic retrovirus (T1223/B) in association with a subleukemogenic dose of irradiation. We report for the first time that new ecotropic proviral sequences are encountered in a significant number (30%) of primary lymphomas induced directly by irradiation or indirectly in non-irradiated thymuses grafted in irradiated hosts. The existence of a 3.5-kbp Kpn1 restriction fragment with ecotropic sequences in the digested DNA of these tumor cells indicates that these new sequences belong to an ecotropic provirus recombinant in the gag-pol region. We observed that most of the primary radio-induced tumors in which novel recombinant provirus could be detected, displayed the integration at a single or at a few sites, demonstrating their clonality with respect to viral integration. The same was observed in thymic lymphomas arising after T1223/B virus injection and irradiation and in in-vivo or in-vitro propagated tumors. Altogether, these data bring the first evidence of the integration of ecotropic recombinant proviral genomes in a significant number of primary radiation induced thymic lymphomas and of their possible role in view of their frequent occurrence in grafted thymomas.
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Inability of Kaplan radiation leukemia virus to replicate on mouse fibroblasts is conferred by its long terminal repeat. J Virol 1988; 62:3840-8. [PMID: 2843678 PMCID: PMC253530 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.10.3840-3848.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The molecularly cloned infectious Kaplan radiation leukemia virus has previously been shown to be unable to replicate on mouse fibroblasts (E. Rassart, M. Shang, Y. Boie, and P. Jolicoeur, J. Virol. 58:96-106, 1986). To map the viral sequences responsible for this, we constructed chimeric viral DNA genomes in vitro with parental cloned infectious viral DNAs from the nonfibrotropic (F-) BL/VL3 V-13 radiation leukemia virus and the fibrotropic (F+) endogenous BALB/c or Moloney murine leukemia viruses (MuLV). Infectious chimeric MuLVs, recovered after transfection of Ti-6 lymphocytes with these recombinant DNAs, were tested for capacity to replicate on mouse fibroblasts in vitro. We found that chimeric MuLVs harboring the long terminal repeat (LTR) of a fibrotropic MuLV replicated well on mouse fibroblasts. Conversely, chimeric MuLVs harboring the LTR of a nonfibrotropic MuLV were restricted on mouse fibroblasts. These results indicate that the LTR of BL/VL3 radiation leukemia virus harbors the primary determinant responsible for its inability to replicate on mouse fibroblasts in vitro. Our results also show that the primary determinant allowing F+ MuLVs (endogenous BALB/c and Moloney MuLVs) to replicate on mouse fibroblasts in vitro resides within the LTR.
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[Infectious properties of the N-tropic virus OA-3 isolated from the BALB/3T3 cell line]. Vopr Virusol 1988; 33:614-7. [PMID: 3218217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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[Outlook for the genetic engineering approach in radiobiology]. RADIOBIOLOGIIA 1988; 28:147-59. [PMID: 3283821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Present evidence on the use of genetic engineering methods in studying the molecular mechanism of radiation damage and repair of DNA, as well as radiation mutagenesis and carcinogenesis has been summarized. The new approach to radiobiological research has proved to be extremely fruitful. Some previously unknown types of structural disorders in DNA molecule have been discovered, some repair genes isolated and their primary structure established, some aspects of radiation mutagenesis elucidated, and research into deciphering the molecular bases of neoplastic transformations of exposed cells are being successfully investigated. The authors discuss the perspectives of using genetic engineering methods in radiobiology.
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A highly leukemogenic radiation leukemia virus isolate is a thymotropic, immunosuppressive retrovirus with a unique RNA structure. Int J Cancer 1987; 39:492-7. [PMID: 2435664 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910390415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Clones of N-, B- and NB-fibrotropic viruses were isolated from weakly (D-RadLV) and strongly (A-RadLV) leukomogenic RadLV preparations. A highly leukemogenic, thymotropic virus (TV) was isolated by ex-vivo infection of thymocytes with A-RadLV. This virus could not be isolated from D-RadLV. Two-dimensional fingerprint analysis suggested that TV recombines unique RNA sequences with RNA genomic material derived from a B-tropic endogenous virus. C57BL/6 (B6) mice injected with B- or NB-fibrotropic clones, but not with TV or N-tropic viral clones, developed reactive T lymphocytes (Tr), capable of differentiating into anti-tumor cytotoxic cells. The N-tropic virus isolates were non-immunogenic in B6 mice whereas the TV isolate induced suppressor T lymphocytes (Ts) that abrogated a potential Tr response. These results suggest that emergence of highly leukemogenic RadLV involves activation of endogenous fibrotropic virus which is immunogenic in its natural host strain (B6). This virus can further recombine with other retroviral genetic sequences, resulting in a suppressogenic and thymotropic, highly leukemogenic virus.
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Molecular basis of a unique tumor antigen of radiation leukemia virus-induced leukemia B6RV2: its relation to MuLV gp70 of xenotropic class. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 1986; 136:3502-7. [PMID: 3007622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies that reacted with the B6 radiation leukemia virus (RadLV)-induced leukemia B6RV2 were produced by fusion of BALB/c NS-1 myeloma cells with spleen cells from (BALB/c X B6)F1 mice immunized with B6RV2. By direct and absorption analyses with 28 B6 and BALB/c leukemias, the monoclonal antibodies NU7-4 and NU7-99 were shown to react only with B6RV2, indicating that they recognized an individually distinct antigen on B6RV2 that was identified previously with conventional (BALB/c X B6)F1 anti-B6RV2 serum. Another monoclonal antibody, NU1-132, showed relatively restricted reactivity with B6 RadLV leukemias. These three monoclonal antibodies all precipitated material of approximately 80,000 daltons, which is the same size as that precipitated by anti-xenotropic MuLV gp70 serum. Sequential immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that the molecules precipitated by NU7-4 were not removed by pretreatment of NU7-99 or NU1-132 and that the molecules precipitated by NU7-99 were not removed by NU7-4 or NU1-132. The molecules precipitated by NU1-132 were partially removed by pretreatment with NU7-4, but not with NU7-99. The molecules precipitated by these three monoclonal antibodies were removed by pretreatment with anti-xenotropic gp70. These results suggested heterogeneity of the xenotropic MuLV gp70-related molecules expressed on B6RV2 and a possible relation between serologically defined unique tumor antigens and gp70-related molecules.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/analysis
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigen-Antibody Reactions
- Antigens, Surface/immunology
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/genetics
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/immunology
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/isolation & purification
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Binding, Competitive
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/immunology
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/immunology
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Precipitin Tests
- Rabbits
- Rats
- Retroviridae/immunology
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To analyze the emergence of radiation leukemia virus (RadLV) variants in primary X-ray-induced C57BL/Ka thymoma and to identify the virus responsible for the very high leukemogenic potential of passaged Kaplan strain BL/VL3 preparation, we cloned several primary and passaged ecotropic RadLV infectious genomes. By restriction analysis, we found that BL/VL3 cells harbor three related but different ecotropic RadLVs. Their restriction map differs significantly from those of primary RadLVs. Hybridization analysis also indicated that BL/VL3 and primary RadLVs differ in their p15E and long terminal repeat (LTR) regions. As compared with the LTR sequence of the putative parental endogenous ecotropic provirus, the LTR sequence of primary weakly leukemogenic RadLV has only one change, a C-rich sequence, generating a 6-base-pair direct repeat just in front of the promotor. The LTR of the primary nonleukemogenic RadLV only showed few base changes, mainly clustered in R and U5. The LTR from a moderately leukemogenic passaged BL/VL3 RadLV had conserved the C-rich sequence and acquired a 43-base-pair direct repeat in U3 and several other point mutations, small insertions, and deletions scattered in U3, R, and U5. All cloned primary RadLVs were fibrotropic, and some were weakly leukemogenic. All cloned BL/VL3 RadLVs were thymotropic and nonfibrotropic. The block of their replication was found to be after the synthesis of unintegrated linear and supercoiled viral DNA. Most of the BL/VL3 RadLVs were moderately leukemogenic, and one (V-13) was highly leukemogenic, being as virulent as the Moloney strain. We propose a model for the emergence of the RadLV variants and show that the virus responsible for the high leukemogenic potential of BL/VL3 preparation is a nondefective, ecotropic, lymphotropic, nonfibrotropic, unique retrovirus which most likely arose from a parental primary RadLV similar to those studied here.
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The nucleotide sequence of RadLV/VL3 (T+L+), the thymotropic and leukemogenic entity of the in-vitro propagated radiation leukemia virus complex (RadLV/VL3), is that of a recombinant retrovirus. The gag, pol and most of the env gene are very similar to the homologous regions of Akv MuLV. The 3' end of the env gene and the LTR appear to have derived from a xenotropic MuLV. However, the LTR has acquired a feature shared by other lymphomagenic MuLVs. This feature consists in sequence rearrangements resulting in the generation of presumed enhancer elements. RadLV/VL3(T+L+)-specific proviral sequences were found adjacent to the c-myc gene in several virus-induced thymic lymphomas of the rat, suggesting that the enhancer elements might play a role in lymphomagenesis. However, we found that the presence of a provirus at a specific DNA site can lead to an in-vitro growth advantage and to clonal cell selection independently of a lymphomagenic process. We conclude from this observation that clonal appearance of an integrated provirus in cultured radiogenic lymphoma cells does not necessarily reflect a viral induction of radiation-induced leukemogenesis.
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Murine thymic lymphomas after infection with a B-ecotropic murine leukemia virus and/or X-irradiation: proviral organization and RNA expression. Leuk Res 1986; 10:809-17. [PMID: 2426524 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(86)90302-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The role of retroviruses in murine radioleukemogenesis was reinvestigated using a protocol associating the injection of a non-pathogenic retrovirus (T1223/B virus) and a subleukemogenic dose of X-radiation (2 X 1.75 Gy). Using the Southern blotting technique we studied MuLV proviral organization and RNA expression in thymic lymphomas induced by the combined effect of virus and irradiation or irradiation alone. A recombinant provirus was detected in the chromosomal DNA of every tumor induced by associating virus and radiation whereas it was unconstantly found in radio-induced tumors. In every instance, the provirus was not integrated at a common site. No relationship was observed between viral RNA expression and tumor induction. Trisomy 15 was observed in all metaphases irrespective of the protocol of tumor induction. The G-banding technique revealed an extra-band in several thymic lymphomas induced by irradiation and T1223/B virus injection.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Chromosome Aberrations/genetics
- Chromosome Aberrations/pathology
- Chromosome Disorders
- DNA Restriction Enzymes
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, Viral
- Leukemia, Experimental/etiology
- Leukemia, Experimental/genetics
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/genetics
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- Lymphoma/etiology
- Lymphoma/genetics
- Lymphoma/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Poly A/genetics
- RNA/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- Recombination, Genetic
- Retroviridae/genetics
- Retroviridae/pathogenicity
- Thymus Neoplasms/genetics
- Thymus Neoplasms/microbiology
- Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
- X-Rays
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Molecular cloning of several primary or passaged RadLV variants and their biological characterization has allowed us to propose a model of their emergence following X-ray irradiation of C57BL/6 mouse.
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A molecular and genetic approach to understanding the mechanisms by which fractionated X-irradiation induces leukemia in mice. Leuk Res 1986; 10:819-32. [PMID: 3016417 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(86)90303-6] [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: 01/03/2023]
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Our laboratory's approach to try to shed light on the question of a viral etiology for radiation-induced leukemia has focused on defining, localizing and understanding the mode of action of genes involved in susceptibility to FXI-induced disease. These studies have indicated that multiple genes control the process of leukemogenesis. In addition not every mouse strain which shows some susceptibility to FXI-induced leukemia carries the susceptible gene at each of the multiple loci involved in the disease process. Thus, it is plausible to conclude that more than one mechanism of leukemogenesis can be triggered by FXI. Our studies have focused on the mode of action of one such locus Ril-1. Several reagents have been developed to help us clone and characterize this locus. Currently chromosomal "walking" and "hopping" techniques are being used in conjunction with an RFLP molecular probe which is adjacent to Ril-1. In addition a cDNA library has been prepared from a radiation-induced thymoma and subtraction hybridization analysis is being used in the search for Ril-1.
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Biochemical and morphological evidence indicates that a type-C retrovirus is present in the blood of swine (both leukemic and nonleukemic) exposed to strontium-90 radiation. Nonexposed swine that were leukemic also had virus present. The virus was shown to contain an RNase-sensitive DNA polymerase activity with cation, detergent and template requirements similar to those of known viral reverse transcriptases. The buoyant density of the virus was 1.14 to 1.16 g/ml, which can be converted, by treatment with ether, to a virion core having a density of 1.20 to 1.23 g/ml. Linear regression analysis indicated a correlation between virus-associated DNA polymerase activity and the number of blast cells in the peripheral blood.
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Henry Kaplan helped establish the fields of lymphocyte biology and viral leukemogenesis by his early and continuing studies on radiation leukemogenesis. As one of Henry's students I carried on these dual preoccupations with thymic lymphocytopoiesis and thymic lymphomagenesis. This communication demonstrates that thymic lymphocytes are derived from bone marrow precursors which lack any T cell markers; these bone marrow cells (or their clonogenic subsets) can give rise to either thymic cortical plus medullary progeny, or medullary progeny alone; thymic lymphocytes mature in contact with 3-5 classes of nonlymphoid cells (thymic nurse cells, cortical dendritic epithelial cells, medullary epithelial cells, dendritic reticular cells, and macrophages), and one of these subsets, cortical dendritic epithelial cells, express an unusual distribution of MHC antigen (perhaps utilized in the maturation of T cell MHC restriction); the population of cells which are poised to emigrate from the thymus are a unique subset of cortical cells which possess peripheral lymphoid organ homing receptors; and the thymic target cells for retrovirus lymphomagenesis express highly specific retrovirus receptors that are analogous (and perhaps synonymous) with antigen-specific T cell receptors.
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High- and low-leukemogenic variants of the radiation leukemia virus (RadLV): immunogenic, suppressive and genetic properties in relation to leukemogenic activity. Int J Cancer 1984; 34:875-82. [PMID: 6439654 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910340621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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C57BL/6 (B6) mice inoculated with the highly leukemogenic variant of the radiation leukemia virus (A-RadLV) develop suppressor cells capable of abrogating potential anti-tumor immunity in vitro and in vivo. Inoculation of B6 animals with the low-leukemogenic D-RadLV variant does not result in suppressor cell generation but induces antitumor reactive lymphocytes. A-RadLV and D-RadLV are not leukemogenic in BALB/c or (B6 X BALB/c)F1(F1) mice, and reactive but not suppressor lymphocytes could be demonstrated in F1 animals inoculated with either virus. Infectivity assays and fingerprint analysis revealed that A-RadLV and D-RadLV contain viruses with N and B tropism. In addition, thymoma cells induced by A-RadLV produced another virus with a fingerprint pattern containing X-MuLV elements. The possible implications of the different virus types on the immunogenic and leukemogenic properties of the RadLV variants are discussed.
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Detection of a unique antigen on radiation leukemia virus-induced leukemia B6RV2. Cancer Res 1984; 44:5138-44. [PMID: 6091870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Radiation leukemia virus-induced leukemia of a male C57BL/6 mouse, B6RV2, is immunogenic to female BALB/c X C57BL/6 F1 mice. In these mice, B6RV2 tumors regressed after initial growth, and after tumor regression the mice were resistant to repeated inocula of up to 10(8) B6RV2 cells. Serum from these mice reacted with B6RV2 in mixed hemadsorption or protein A assays, and absorption analysis indicated that the antigen was restricted to B6RV2; it could not be detected in normal thymocytes or spleen concanavalin A blasts from different inbred strains, nor in 16 C57BL/6 or BALB/c leukemias. Spleen cells from mice in which the tumor had regressed were cytotoxic to B6RV2 after in vitro stimulation with B6RV2, as shown by 51-chromium release assay. This cytotoxicity was eliminated by pretreatment of the cells with anti-Thy-1.2, anti-Lyt-2.2, anti-Lyt-3.2, and complement, indicating that the effector cells were T-cells. The specificity of T-cell killing of B6RV2 was examined by competitive inhibition assays with unlabeled cells; only B6RV2 inhibited killing, while eight other C57BL/6 leukemias did not inhibit. Thus, the antigen on B6RV2 defined serologically and by cytotoxic T-cells is a unique antigen. However, it was not revealed by antibody-blocking test whether the unique determinant defined serologically was related to that recognized by T-cells; B6RV2 antiserum did not block lytic activity in the absence of added complement, irrespective of whether the target cells were untreated or anti-H-2b-treated B6RV2. H-2Kb antisera, but not H-2Db antisera, blocked lysis. This indicated that the H-2Kb molecule was exclusively involved in recognition of B6RV2 by cytotoxic T-cell.
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Murine leukemia virus-related RNA species were examined in a set of radiation-induced T-cell leukemias from BALB/c mice. No evidence was found for linkage of viral long terminal repeat-derived (U5) sequences to information of host origin. A novel class of 2-kilobase (kb) env-related transcripts, about 1kb shorter than normal viral env messenger, was found in all the leukemias. All of the 2-kb transcripts contained sequences homologous to the xenotropic virus-related env sequences in the Friend spleen focus-forming virus, representing the N-terminal portion of gp70. In two of the leukemias, these transcripts were found to contain both ecotropic p15E and U3 sequences in addition to the xenotropic gp70-related sequence. These two leukemias, but not others in which ecotropic sequences were absent from the 2-kb RNA, harbored several copies of a specific class of env recombinant proviruses. These proviruses possessed full-size env genes and were submethylated, as shown by SmaI and XmaI digests of proviral DNA. Low levels of 2-kb RNA were found in normal thymocytes from strains BALB/c, AKR, and 129 but not from congenic 129 GIX- mice. It is possible that the 2-kb RNA may originate by a novel splicing step that removes portions of the gp70 and p15E sequences from full-length env transcripts.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred AKR
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Poly A/analysis
- Poly A/genetics
- RNA/analysis
- RNA/genetics
- RNA Splicing
- RNA, Messenger
- RNA, Viral/analysis
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- Recombination, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- T-Lymphocytes/analysis
- Transcription, Genetic
- Viral Envelope Proteins
- Viral Proteins/genetics
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Induction of leukemia by both fractionated x-irradiation and radiation leukemia virus involves loci in the chromosome 2 segment H-30-A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983; 80:462-6. [PMID: 6300845 PMCID: PMC393398 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.2.462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A common link between the induction of leukemia by (i) fractionated doses of x-irradiation and (ii) radiation leukemia virus in mice may be established by the observation that the segment of chromosome 2 between the loci for the minor histocompatibility antigen H-30 and color coat agouti (H-30-A) includes distinct loci involved in susceptibility to leukemogenesis induced by factors i and ii.
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High- and low-leukemogenic variants of the radiation leukemia virus (RadLV) differ in ability to induce tumor-specific immune suppression. Int J Cancer 1982; 30:355-9. [PMID: 6215365 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910300316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Adult C57BL/6 mice inoculated intrathymically (i.t.) with the highly leukemogenic variant of the radiation leukemia virus (A-RadLV) develop suppressor cells capable of specifically abrogating a potential anti-tumor cytotoxic response in vitro. Suppressor cells were generated directly by the virus, independently of an initiation of a leukemogenic process. Inoculation of C57BL/6 animals with the low leukemogenic D-RadLV variant did not result in suppressor cell generation. It is proposed that induction of tumor-specific immune suppression by A-RadLV is essential for tumor progression, and the leukemogenic activity of D-RadLV is attributed to its inability to recruit suppressor cells.
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"Thymic nurse cells" contain the first virus producing cells after inoculation of the radiation leukemia virus in C57BL/Ka mice. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1982; 149:263-7. [PMID: 7148566 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9066-4_36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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CBA/H-T6Crc mice, a substrain that does not normally express demonstrable levels of murine leukaemia virus (MuLV) and has a low natural incidence of leukaemia, were examined for evidence of virus activation at various times following X-irradiation. Although X-irradiation caused a high incidence of leukaemia, no ecotropic, xenotropic or recombinant MuLV was detected by in vitro co-cultivation of bone marrow, spleen and thymus cells from pre-leukaemic and leukaemic animals with selectively permissive cell lines followed by indirect immunofluorescence for MuLV group-specific (gs) antigen. These results, therefore, are not consistent with the hypothesis that endogenous viruses are the universal aetiological agents of leukaemia.
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In vitro studies on the mechanism of leukemogenesis.-I. Establishment and characterization of cell lines derived from the thymic epithelial reticulum cell of the mouse. Leuk Res 1981; 5:321-9. [PMID: 7289644 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(81)90004-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Female
- Inclusion Bodies, Viral/ultrastructure
- Leukemia, Experimental/microbiology
- Leukemia, Experimental/pathology
- Leukemia, Experimental/ultrastructure
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/pathology
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/ultrastructure
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred AKR
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Reticulocytes/microbiology
- Reticulocytes/pathology
- Reticulocytes/ultrastructure
- Thymus Gland/microbiology
- Thymus Gland/pathology
- Thymus Gland/ultrastructure
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Frequent isolation of ecotropic murine leukemia virus after x-ray irradiation of C57BL/6 mice and establishment of producer lymphoid cell lines from radiation-induced lymphomas. J Virol 1980; 35:270-5. [PMID: 6251276 PMCID: PMC288806 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.35.1.270-275.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Fractionated whole-body X irradiation of C57BL/Ka mice leads to the development of thymic leukemia in 90% of the treated animals at an average age of 6 months. Using a sensitive high-density cocultivation procedure, we were able to demonstrate the presence of ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) from 1 month post-irradiation up to leukemia development. These viruses are not specific to any one particular organ, but can be found in at least two of the three lymphoreticular tissues studied, namely, spleen, thymus, and bone marrow. Host range studies on the isolated viruses showed that both N- and B-tropic MuLV could be isolated early after irradiation. However, as mice reached an age where leukemias develop, only the B-tropic MuLV could be recovered. We have established cell lines from primary radiation-induced tumors that are being maintained in continuous culture: except one cell line, all are virus producers. The results clearly indicate that X irradiation induces ecotropic MuLV in C57BL/Ka mice and suggest that B-tropic MuLV might be involved in the disease process.
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Biochemical analysis of murine leukemia viruses isolated from radiation-induced leukemias of strain BALB/c. J Virol 1980; 33:661-70. [PMID: 6251240 PMCID: PMC288590 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.33.2.661-670.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Murine leukemia viruses isolated from radiation-induced BALB/c leukemias were characterized with respect to viral proteins and RNA. Analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the viral structural proteins revealed that for p12, p15, p30, and gp70, three of four electrophoretic variants of each could be detected. There was no correlation found between any of these mobilities and N- or B-tropism of the viruses. Proteins of all xenotropic viral isolates were identical in their gel electrophoretic profiles. The similar phenotypes of multiple viral clones from individual leukemias and of isolates grown in different cells suggest that the polymorphism of ecotropic viruses was generated in vivo rather than during in vitro virus growth. By two-dimensional fingerprinting of RNase T1-resistant oligonucleotides from 70S viral DNA, the previously reported association of N- and B-tropism with two distinct oligonucleotides was confirmed. The presence of two other oligonucleotides was correlated with positive and negative phenotypes of the virus-coded GIX cell surface antigen. The RNAs of two B-tropic isolates with distinctive p15 and p12 phenotypes differed from the RNA of a prototype N-tropic virus by the absence of three oligonucleotides mapping in the 5' portion (gag region) of the prototype RNA. In addition, one small-plaque B-tropic virus displayed extensive changes in the RNA sequences associated with the env region of the prototype.
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[Biology, serology and biochemistry of leucemogenic viruses derived from a radiation-induced tumor of C57BL mice]. COMPTES RENDUS DES SEANCES DE LA SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE SES FILIALES 1980; 174:832-839. [PMID: 6159954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Two distinct rat propagates of a radiation leukemia virus (RadLV-Rs) from the C57BL mouse respectively induced characteristic leukemogenic effects. These were found to be related with the infection titers of the isolates, but not with either their antigenic specificities or their viral and proviral genome sequences.
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Multiple target cells type for infection by RadLV(Rs), a radiation leukemia derived virus. Leuk Res 1980; 4:521-30. [PMID: 6259450 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(80)90063-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Absence of ecotropic or recombinant murine leukaemia virus in preleukaemic and leukaemic X-irradiated NZB mice. Int J Cancer 1979; 24:373-6. [PMID: 226488 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910240317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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NZB mice X-irradiated with a single dose of 630 R when they were 1-month old developed a high incidence of histologically defined lymphocytic leukaemia 8--25 weeks later. We have screened for murine leukaemia viruses (MuLV) in the lymphoid tissues of 8 of these leukaemic mice, and in 8 "preleukaemic", apparently healthy NZBs killed 1 month post irradiation. Xenotropic, but not ecotropic or recombinant MuLV, was detected by in vitro co-cultivation of bone marrow, spleen and thymus with selectively permissive cell lines, followed by the immunofluorescence test for MuLV gs antigen, and the XC test. Our results are not consistent, therefore, with the concept that the factor causing the leukaemias was an oncogenic virus activated by X-irradiation.
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Characterization by molecular hybridization of two viral populations derived from a radiation leukemia virus. Cancer Res 1978; 38:3487-93. [PMID: 210940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Two leukemogenic viral populations were derived from a radiation leukemia virus of the C57BL mouse. One (FB), in which only B-tropic virus could be detected, was obtained in vivo by serial passage of cell-free extract in newborn rats. The second (3C), a complex containing at least B-tropic and xenotropic viruses, was produced in vitro by a permanent cell line (13-3C) established from the spleen of a virus-infected C57BL mouse. In molecular hybridization experiments, the 70S RNA of Gross leukemia virus hybridized 96 and 78% of FB and 3C radioactive complementary DNA's, respectively, with a relatively high thermal stability of the duplexes formed. In contrast, the 70S RNA of Rauscher leukemia virus hybridized 23 and 20% of the FB and 3C DNA probes, respectively, with a low thermal stability. The rat-grown FB virions exhibited 50% genome homology with the viruses produced in vitro on the 13-3C cells. Finally, hybridizing the FB and 3C probes with normal or leukemic mouse spleen DNA's resulted in 89 to 100% homology. The rat-grown virions did not appear to contain detectable rat cellular DNA sequences, while about 20 complete copies of their nucleotide sequences were detected in covalent linkage with FB-infected rat spleen DNA. These findings strongly support the endogenous murine origin of the investigated virions.
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[Production and analysis of a viral complex derived from a radiation-induced leukemia virus of the C57BL Mouse (author's transl)]. Int J Cancer 1978; 22:98-105. [PMID: 210131 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910220117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Thymotropic, ecotropic, and xenotropic oncoviruses were isolated from the C57BL/6 mouse radiation leukemia system and were propagated in culture. The purified viruses were inoculated singly and in various combinations into groups of mice, and leukemia incidence was determined. Only the thymotropic virus was leukemogenic in vivo.
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Type-C RNA virus and leukemogenesis: lack of correlation between expression of endogenous, ecotropic murine leukemia virus and radiation leukemogenesis in mice. HIROSHIMA JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 1977; 26:177-88. [PMID: 201595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Most X-irradiation-induced thymomas in C57BL/6 mice are virus-free when assayed by immunofluorescence for the gs antigen (gsa) of murine leukemia virus (MuLV). Virus was induced transiently in bone marrow cells and later appeared in thymus cells. Six to 7 weeks post irradiation, thymocytes and bone marrow cells were MuLV gsa-negative and remained negative for the lifetime of most animals, whether or not they contracted overt leukemia. During the period when MuLV gsa-positive bone marrow cells were found, XC-positive syncytia-producing bone marrow cells were also found. Virus information was expressed, therefore, for a limited duration, long before any signs of leukemia in the animals were evident. MuLV gsa-positive thymocytes taken from mice 4 weeks after X-irradiation were cocultivated with a series of indicator cells. B-tropic virus, in addition to a xenotropic virus, was isolated from these cells. Ecotropic virus was not found in normal mouse thymocytes, in irradiated thymocytes a few days after termination of the X-irradiation sequence, or in most primary thymomas. All thymocytes produced only xenotropic virus in the cocultivation assays. Expression of the ecotropic virus was, therefore, transient, as assayed by immunofluorescence, XC syncytia formation, and virus isolation from MuLV gsa-positive thymus cells.
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Radiation leukemia in C57BL/6 mice. II. Lack of ecotropic virus expression in the majority of lymphomas. J Exp Med 1976; 144:1406-23. [PMID: 63529 PMCID: PMC2190491 DOI: 10.1084/jem.144.6.1406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The expression of endogenous ecotropic viruses in radiation-induced thymomas of C57BL/6 mice was examined. Competition radioimmunoassays for AKR MuLV gp71, p30, and p12 were used for viral antigen expression. 3 of 40 lymphomas had readily detectable ecotropic gp71 at levels of 95-689 ng/mg protein; the remainder of the tumors had no detectable gp71 (less than 1.0 ng/mg protein). 30 thymomas were characterized by the presence of MuLV p30 at levels of 1-10 ng/mg protein, levels that were comparable to those found in thymus extracts from age-matched, nonirradiated control. 10 tumors were characterized by having p30 levels of 10-30 ng/mg protein. In one tumor significant levels of AKR MuLV p12 were detectable. Since B-tropic and N-tropic viruses from C57BL/6 mice have glycoproteins (gp71) indistinguishable from AKR MuLV gp71 and the N-tropic virus had a p12 serologically identical to AKR MuLV p12, these results demonstrate that overt endogenous B-tropic virus was detectable in 2 of 40 thymomas and endogenous N-tropic virus was detectable in 1 of 40 thymomas. The lack of overt expression of gp71 or p12 was also confirmed by cytotoxicity assays using monospecific antisera to these viral proteins. Radiation-induced lymphomas were also examined for the presence of reverse transcriptase after chromatography of tissue extracts on poly G-Sepharose. One tumor, which was characterized by the lack of gp71, also had no detectable reverse transcriptase; whereas one tumor with gp71 was characterized by readily detectable levels of reverse transcriptase in cellular extracts. The presence of viral RNA was examined using AKR cDNA. Low levels of RNA capable of hybridizing with AKR cDNA were found in age-matched, nonirradiated mice; these hybrids had Tm's of 72 degrees C, while hybrids with AKR MuLV 70S RNA had Tm's of 80 degrees C. In 1 of 12 thymomas the concentration of hybridizable RNA and the Tm of the hybrids were identical to control values. In 9 of 12 thymomas the concentration of hybridizable sequences increased approximately three-to fivefold and the Tm of these hybrids varied from 73 to 75 degrees C. In 1 of 12 thymomas the concentration of hybridizable sequences increased over 100-fold, hybridized completely with AKR MuLV cDNA, and the hybrids had Tm's of 79 degrees C. This thymoma was also characterized by the presence of the AKR MuLV type of gp71 and p12. One tumor was characterized by a 10-to 100-fold increase in hybridizable sequences, which only partially hybridized with AKR MuLV cDNA, and hybrids had a Tm of 73 degrees C. This tumor was characterized by the presence of AKR MuLV gp71 but not AKR MuLV p12. The results taken together demonstrate that overt endogenous ecotropic virus expression is only rarely detectable in radiation-induced thymomas of C57BL/6 mice.
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Focal infection and transformation in situ of thymus cell subclasses by a thymotropic murine leukemia virus. Cancer Res 1975; 35:3585-95. [PMID: 172227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Studies on the maturational lineages of thymic lymphocytes have revealed several subclasses which are distinguishable on the basis of cell size, topographic distribution within the thymus, DNA synthetic and mitotic activity, migratory behavior, and other properties. Strain C57BL/Ka mice were inoculated with radiation leukemia virus at different concentrations, and tissues were removed at defined intervals. Sequential sections were analyzed for virus-specific cytoplasmic antigen expression, for morphological evidence of neoplastic transformation, and for alkaline phosphatase activity. The first detectable sign of MuLV infection was the focal appearance of cytoplasmic viral antigens in cells of the outer thymic cortex, followed by coalescence of such foci and, several weeks later, by the appearance of morphologically transformed and alkaline phosphatase-positive cells, again often focally distributed in the outer thymic cortex. These observations strongly suggest that the large, mitotically active cells of the outer thymic cortex are the principal source of target cells for both productive infection and subsequent lymphoma induction by the virus.
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Isopycnic density gradient profile of MuLV of strain ICRC. INDIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 1975; 13:561-3. [PMID: 176113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Kinetics of propagation of B-tropic murine leukemia virus on Fv-1b cell lines: requirement for multiple cycles of cell replication for transformation and viral antigen expression by RadLV. Virology 1975; 63:367-83. [PMID: 163525 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(75)90310-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A difference between B10.D2-n and B10.D2-o strains of mice in rates of irradiation-induced leukemogenesis. Cancer Res 1974; 34:3210-4. [PMID: 4371951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral/analysis
- Cells, Cultured
- Complement System Proteins
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Genotype
- Leukemia, Experimental/genetics
- Leukemia, Experimental/microbiology
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/microbiology
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/genetics
- Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Retroviridae/isolation & purification
- Species Specificity
- Spleen/microbiology
- Time Factors
- Virus Cultivation
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Virion and non-virion murine leukemia membrane antigens: analysis with virus-absorbed antisera. Intervirology 1974; 3:292-304. [PMID: 4443190 DOI: 10.1159/000149767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Continuous propagation of radiation leukemia virus on a C57BL mouse-embryo fibroblast line, with attenuation of leukemogenic activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1973; 70:1250-3. [PMID: 4352226 PMCID: PMC433469 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.70.4.1250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The radiation leukemia virus (RadLV), a murine leukemia virus derived from thymic lymphomas induced by x-irradiation in strain C57BL/Ka mice, has been successfully propagated in sustained high titer in vitro in a newly established line, BL-5, of C57BL/Ka mouse-embryo fibroblasts. In addition, the production of endogenous virus, presumed to be RadLV, has been induced and sustained through multiple serial passages after treatment of BL-5 cell cultures with 5-bromodeoxyuridine. The chronically RadLV-infected subline, designated BL-5 (RadLV), sheds virus into the supernatant culture fluids that is biologically active in vitro in the XC cell plaque assay, in interference assays for focus-formation by murine sarcoma virus, and in the intracellular induction of group-specific antigens detectable by immunofluorescence, but is apparently devoid of leukemogenic activity after intrathymic inoculation into neonatal or immunosuppressed C57BL/Ka mice. Although BL-5 cells exhibited morphological alterations suggestive of transformation in vitro and gave rise to fibrosarcomatous ascites tumors after intraperitoneal inoculation with C57BL/Ka mice, the chronically infected BL-5(RadLV) cells remained normal in morphology and failed to yield fibrosarcomas in vivo.
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Effect of treatment of C57BL-6 mice with the methanol extraction residue fraction of BCG on leukemogenesis induced by the radiation leukemia virus. J Natl Cancer Inst 1973; 50:229-34. [PMID: 4348221 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/50.1.229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Radiation leukemia virus does not propagate in tissue cultures from either Swiss or C57BL mouse embryos, but it does augment focus formation by the defective Moloney leukemia pseudotype of murine sarcoma virus in Swiss mouse cells and thus can be quantitatively assayed.
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Possible viral association of 90Sr-induced porcine leukemia. BNWL-714. BNWL [REPORTS]. U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION 1968:2.19-2+. [PMID: 5306900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The mechanism of radiation action in leukaemogenesis. Isolation of a leukaemogenic filtrable agent from tissues of irradiated and normal C57BL mice. Br J Cancer 1967; 21:730-8. [PMID: 4864487 PMCID: PMC2008176 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1967.85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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