Molecular cloning of the temperature-sensitive 371 Kirsten murine sarcoma virus and expression in Escherichia coli of the mutant and wild-type viral Kirsten ras p21 proteins.

AUTOR(ES)

Stein, R B

RESUMO

Rodent fibroblasts infected with the ts371 Kirsten murine sarcoma virus (KiMuSV) are temperature sensitive for the maintenance of transformation because of the production of an abnormal p21 protein. We cloned the ts371 KiMuSV provirus from the genome of a conditionally transformed nonproducer cell line, ts371 KiMuSV NRK clone 5 (T. Y. Shih, M. O. Weeks, H. A. Young, and E. M. Scolnick, J. Virol. 31:546-556, 1979). The molecularly cloned virus had 1,000-fold lower transformed focus-forming activity at 39 degrees C than at 34 degrees C. The ts371-v-Ki-ras gene differed from the wild type (wt) by a single point mutation, resulting in the substitution of arginine for glutamine at amino acid residue 43 of the encoded p21. A second difference from the published sequence for wt v-Ki-ras (N. Tsuchida, T. Ryder, and E. Ohtsubo, Science 217:937-939, 1982) at amino acid residue 37 was found. However, on sequencing the wt v-Ki-ras in this region, we found that it also contained a glutamate at residue 37. Preliminary characterization of bacterially expressed wt and ts371-v-Ki-ras p21 proteins is discussed.

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