Molecular cloning of viral DNA from leukemogenic Gross passage A murine leukemia virus and nucleotide sequence of its long terminal repeat.

AUTOR(ES)

Villemur, R

RESUMO

The viral DNA genome of the leukemogenic Gross passage A virus was cloned in phage Charon 21A as an infectious molecule. The virus recovered by transfection with this infectious DNA was ecotropic, N-tropic, fibrotropic, and XC+. It was leukemogenic when reinjected into newborn SIM mice, indicating that ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) from an AKR mouse thymoma can harbor leukemogenic sequences. Its restriction map was similar to that of nonleukemogenic AKR MuLV, its putative parent, but differed at the 3' end and in the long terminal repeat (LTR). The nucleotide sequence of the Gross A virus LTR was identical to the AKR MuLV LTR sequence (Van Beveren et al., J. Virol. 41:542-556, 1982) in U5, R, and part of U3. All differences between both LTRs were found in U3. Only one copy of the U3 tandem direct repeat was conserved in the Gross A virus LTR, and it was rearranged by the insertion of a 36-base-pair sequence and by five point mutations. Only one additional point mutation common to several oncogenic MuLVs was present in U3. These structural changes in the U3 LTR and at the 3' end of the genome may be related to the leukemogenicity of this virus.

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