Induction of endogenous murine C-type virus in spleen cell cultures treated with mitogens and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine.

AUTOR(ES)

Moroni, C

RESUMO

In short-term cultures of BALB/c spleen cells, treatment with a combination of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) and either lipopolysaccharide W. Escherichia coli or concanavalin A resulted in release of C-type virus into the medium. Only lipopolysaccharide induced virus release when given alone. This could be potentiated by a combined treatment with BrdU. In contrast, phytohemagglutinin at mitogenic concentration had no effect with or without BrdU, suggesting that inducibility may vary between various mitogen-responsive spleen cell populations. In AKR mice, spontaneous virus release was detectable in nonstimulated spleen cell cultures. This could be potentiated by lipopolysaccharide, whereas no further increase occurred upon additional BrdU treatment. The induced viruses had C-type characteristics in that they contained reverse transcriptase that could be distinguished from cellular enzymes by template-primer preference experiments. Furthermore, the enzyme activities were particle-associated, banding in isopycnic sucrose gradients at 1.15-1.17 g/cm-3. The presence of C-type viruses was confirmed by electron microscopy.

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