Conservation of protein coding potential in the long terminal repeats of exogenous and endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses.

AUTOR(ES)

Peters, G

RESUMO

In vitro protein synthesis and DNA sequence analysis indicate that mouse mammary tumor virus differs from other well-characterized retroviruses in that the long terminal repeat region of the provirus has the capacity to encode proteins. Different exogenously transmitted mouse mammary tumor virus strains and endogenous proviral units conserved this open reading frame feature in the long terminal repeat despite a variation in nucleotide sequence. The proteins encoded by the different long terminal repeats were clearly related, but showed minor variations in size and tryptic peptide maps. In each case, the largest in vitro product had a molecular weight of about 36,000 to 37,000, suggesting that the open reading frame sequences must extend for approximately 1,000 nucleotides beginning at the extreme 5' end of the long terminal repeat. The fact that the reading frame was conserved among these viruses argues in favor of an in vivo function for the open reading frame protein.

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