A replication-competent promoter-trap retrovirus.
AUTOR(ES)
Coulombe, J
RESUMO
A promoter-trap retrovirus has been constructed in which a promoterless polyomavirus middle T antigen gene was inserted in the U3 region of the long terminal repeat of a replication-competent Moloney murine leukemia virus. The resulting virus, designated PyT, was used to infect mouse mammary glands in situ. As expected, mammary tumors appeared in some infected animals. These tumors were found to contain PyT proviruses of the predicted structure. From one such tumor, the PyT provirus and surrounding sequences from the integration site were cloned. The provirus was found to have integrated adjacent to the promoter of a novel mouse gene (TRAP1) that was expressed at low levels in various mouse tissues. These data show that the PyT retrovirus provides a sensitive means of detecting active promoters in vivo.
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