Comparison of myeloproliferative sarcoma virus with Moloney murine sarcoma virus variants by nucleotide sequencing and heteroduplex analysis.
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Stacey, A
RESUMO
The myeloproliferative sarcoma virus (MPSV) was derived by passage of Moloney sarcoma virus (Mo-MuSV) in adult mice. Mo-MuSV variants transform fibroblasts. However, MPSV also affects erythroid, myeloid, and hematopoietic stem cells. The MPSV proviral genome, two temperature-sensitive mutants derived from it, Mo-MuSV variant M1, and Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MuLV) were compared by heteroduplex mapping. MPSV wild type was found to have 1 kilobase pair deleted from the pol gene and to contain v-mos-related sequences. The 3' end of MPSV, including the oncogene-helper junctions, the v-mos gene, and the 3' long terminal repeat, was sequenced and compared with sequences of Mo-MuLV, MSV-124, and the mouse oncogene c-mos. From these data, MPSV appears to be either closely related to the original Mo-MuSV or an independent recombinant of Mo-MuLV and c-mos. Five possible explanations of the altered specificity of MPSV are considered. (i) The MPSV mos protein has properties inherent in c-mos but lost by other Mo-MuSV mos proteins. (ii) The MPSV mos protein has altered characteristics due to amino acid changes. (iii) Due to a frameshift, MPSV codes for a mos protein truncated at the amino terminal and also a novel peptide. (iv) A second novel peptide may be encoded from the 3' env region. (v) MPSV has long terminal repeats and an enhancer sequence more like Mo-MuLV than Mo-MuSV, with a consequently altered target cell specificity.
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