Mapping of the fibrotropic and lymphotropic host range determinants of the parvovirus minute virus of mice.

AUTOR(ES)

Gardiner, E M

RESUMO

The fibrotropic and lymphotropic strains of minute virus of mice are each unable to grow lytically in the differentiated host cell type of the other strain. To map the viral sequence responsible for the target cell specificities of the two strains, we constructed chimeric viral genomes in vitro from infectious genomic clones. The phenotypes of viral progeny derived from the chimeric genomes were tested by transfecting the plasmids into fibroblast monolayers and assaying plaque formation and by testing stocks of the recombinant viruses for cytotoxicity in fibroblast and lymphocyte cultures. Both the fibrotropic and lymphotropic determinants mapped to the same 237-nucleotide sequence within the coding region of the virus structural gene. A second sequence, near the viral promoter at map unit 38, was also shown to affect viral growth in fibroblast host cells profoundly.

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