Generation of Transforming Viruses in Cultures of Chicken Fibroblasts Infected with an Avian Leukosis Virus

Overview

Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 1981 Sep 1

PMID 6169846

Citations 35

Authors

E Stavnezer

D S Gerhard

R C Binari

I Balazs

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Abstract

During serial passages of an avian leukosis virus (the transformation-defective, src deletion mutant of Bratislava 77 avian sarcoma virus, designated tdB77) in chicken embryo fibroblasts, viruses which transformed chicken embryo fibroblasts in vitro emerged. Chicken embryo fibroblasts infected with these viruses (SK770 and Sk780) had a distinctive morphology, formed foci in monolayer cultures, and grew independent of anchorage in semisolid agar. Bone marrow cells were not transformed by these viruses. Another virus (SK790) with similar properties emerged during serial subcultures of chicken embryo fibroblasts after a single infection with tdB77. The 50S to RNAs isolated from these viruses contained a tdB77-sized genome (7.6 kilobases), 8.7- and 5.7-kilobase RNAs, and either a 4.1-kilobase RNA or a 4.6-kilobase RNA. These RNAs did not hybridize with cDNA's representing the src, erb, mac, and myb genes of avian acute transforming viruses. Cells transformed by any one of the Sk viruses (SK770, SK780, or SK790) synthesized two novel gag-related polyproteins having molecular weights of 110,000 (p110) and 125,000 (p125). We investigated the compositions of these proteins with monospecific antiviral protein sera. We found that p110 was a gag-pol fusion protein which contained antigenic determinants, leaving 49,000 daltons which was antigenically unrelated to the structural and replicative proteins of avian leukosis viruses. An analysis of the SK viral RNAs with specific DNA probes indicated that the 5.7-kilobase RNA contained gag sequences but lacked pol sequences and, therefore, probably encoded p125. The transforming ability, the deleted genome, and the induced polyproteins of the SK viruses were reminiscent of the properties of several replication-defective acute transforming viruses.

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