Mapping of alterations in noninfectious proviruses of spleen necrosis virus.
AUTOR(ES)
O'Rear, J J
RESUMO
Ten recombinant lambda phage containing proviruses of spleen necrosis virus (SNV) were previously obtained. Six of the proviruses are infectious and four are not infectious in infectious DNA assays. In this paper, we show that these noninfectious proviruses are not infectious because of alterations in the viral DNA. We constructed recombinants between infectious and noninfectious proviruses and tested these recombinants in an infectious DNA assay. In addition, we carried out cotransfection of a noninfectious provirus with a restriction endonuclease-generated fragment of viral DNA. The alterations in the viral DNA resulting in lack of infectivity were mapped to regions of viral DNA of 1 to 2 kilobase pairs. These results and other biochemical data indicate that alterations in retrovirus proviruses occur at a high frequency.
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