Identification of the leukemogenic protein of avian myeloblastosis virus and of its normal cellular homologue.

AUTOR(ES)

Boyle, W J

RESUMO

The genome of the replication-defective avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) contains an inserted cellular sequence (amv) that is part of the oncogene responsible for acute myeloblastic leukemia in chickens infected with AMV. Three antisera raised against distinct synthetic peptides predicted from the long open reading frame of amv specifically precipitated the same 48-kilodalton protein (p48amv) from leukemic myeloblasts but not from normal hematopoietic tissue, fibroblasts, or from fibroblasts infected with the AMV helper virus, MAV-1 (myeloblastosis-associated virus type 1). p48amv is not glycosylated or phosphorylated and does not appear to act as a protein kinase in vitro. The same three antisera that recognized p48amv also specifically precipitated a common 110-kilodalton protein from normal uninfected hematopoietic tissue. This normal cellular homologue of the AMV leukemogenic protein, p110proto-amv, was not present in normal fibroblasts, MAV-1 infected fibroblasts, or, interestingly, in some leukemic myeloblasts. We conclude that p48amv is the leukemogenic product of an altered, transduced, partial protooncogene. Short helper-virus sequences provide its carboxyl terminus and also may provide the amino terminus.

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