Dexamethasone Induction of the Intracellular RNAs of Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus
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Robertson, Donald L.
RESUMO
We have studied the kinetics of dexamethasone induction of mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) RNAs and proteins in virus-infected rat XC cells and GR mouse mammary tumor cells. A detectable increase in viral RNA in infected XC cells was present within 10 min after hormone addition, and half-maximal induction was achieved in less than 2 h. The increase in viral RNA concentration was apparent first in nuclear RNA and later in the cytoplasm. Within the first 15 min of induction, only genome-sized RNA (35S, 7.8 kilobases) was present in augmented amounts, whereas the major subgenomic RNA (24S, 3.8 kilobases) did not appear until at least 30 to 60 min postinduction. The sequential appearance of these RNAs, the probable mRNA's for the gag and env proteins, paralleled the order of appearance of the gag and env proteins, respectively, after hormone treatment. An additional species of viral RNA (20S, 2.5 kilobases) was detected during these induction experiments, but the role of this RNA is not known. Both subgenomic RNAs contain sequences derived from both the 5′ and 3′ termini of genomic RNA and are presumably spliced. After dexamethasone induction of infected XC cells, we detected two smaller env-related proteins which were not found in full hormone induction. The functional role of these smaller proteins is not known. A previously reported smaller species of RNA (13S, 1.0 kilobase) did not appear to be induced and was shown to be cellular rather than viral in origin. In the fully induced infected XC and GR mammary tumor cells, the only viral RNAs present were the 35S and 24S RNAs. In addition, mammary tumors contained only these two viral RNAs. Thus, tumor cells appear to contain only the viral RNAs which direct the synthesis of the gag, pol, and env proteins of the virion.
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