Rescue and Transmission of a Replication-Defective Variant of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus
AUTOR(ES)
Rein, Alan
RESUMO
We have described a clone of mouse cells, termed “8A,” which appears to be infected with a replication-defective variant of Moloney murine leukemia virus (MuLV) (Rein et al., J. Virol. 25:146-156, 1978). Clone 8A cells release virus particles which do not form plaques in the standard XC test. However, approximately 102 particles per ml of clone 8A supernatant do form plaques in a modified XC test (the “complementation plaque assay”), in which the assay cells are coinfected with the XC-negative, nondefective amphotropic MuLV as well as the test virus. Superinfection of clone 8A cells themselves with amphotropic MuLV results in the production of ∼105, rather than ∼102, particles per ml which register in the complementation plaque assay. This increase is due to the rescue of replication-defective ecotropic MuLV from clone 8A cells by amphotropic MuLV since (i) this ecotropic MuLV can only form XC plaques in cells which are coinfected with amphotropic MuLV; and (ii) it is possible to transmit this defective variant, rescued from superinfected clone 8A cells, to a fresh clone of normal mouse cells. The time course of production of the rescued MuLV particles by superinfected clone 8A cells is virtually identical to that of rescue from these cells of murine sarcoma virus. Amphotropic MuLV superinfection of “NP-N” cells, which contain a “non-plaque-forming” variant of N-tropic MuLV (Hopkins and Jolicoeur, J. Virol. 16:991-999, 1975), also increases the titer of particles registering in the complementation plaque assay; thus, NP-N cells, like clone 8A cells, contain a rescuable defective variant of ecotropic MuLV.
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