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Two distinct endogenous type C viruses isolated from the asian rodent Mus cervicolor: conservation of virogene sequences in related rodent species.

Journal of virology ·Vol. 21 ·No. 3 ·1977-03-00 ·Pages 849-62

Benveniste RE, Callahan R, Sherr CJ, Chapman V, Todaro GJ

Abstract

The cocultivation of a lung cell line from the Southeast Asian mouse Mus cervicolor with cells from heterologous species has resulted in the isolation of two new distinct type C viruses. Both viruses are endogenous to M. cervicolor and are present in multiple copies in the cellular DNA of these mice. One of the viruses, designated M. cervicolor type CI, replicates readily in the SIRC rabbit cell line and is antigenically related to the infectious primate type C viruses isolated from a woolly monkey (simian sarcoma-associated virus) and gibbon apes (gibbon ape leukemia virus). This virus is also closely related by both immunological and nucleic acid hybridization criteria to a type C virus previously isolated from a second Asian murine species, Mus caroli. The isolation of the M. cervicolor type C I virus thus provides further evidence that the infectious primate type C viruses originated by trans-species infection of primates by an endogenous virus of mice. The second virus, designated M. cervicolor type C II, replicates well in various cell lines derived from the laboratory mouse Mus musculus. While antigenically related to type C viruses derived from M. musculus, the M. cervicolor type C II virus isolate can be readily distinguished from standard murine leukemia viruses. Both new type C viruses from M. cervicolor are unrelated to the previously described retrovirus (M432) isolated from the same Mus species. The DNA of M. cervicolor therefore contains multiple copies of at least three distinct classes of endogenous viral genes. An examination of the cellular DNA of other rodent species for nucleic acid sequences related to the genomes of both M. cervicolor type C I and II reveals that both viruses have been highly conserved evolutionarily, and that other species of rodents, such as laboratory mice and rats, contain endogenous virogenes related to those in the DNA of M. cervicolor.

MeSH Terms
Animals Asia, Southeastern Base Sequence Biological Evolution Cell Line DNA/analysis Epitopes Lung Mammals Mice/microbiology Nucleic Acid Conformation RNA, Viral/analysis RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/immunology,metabolism Retroviridae/analysis,enzymology,isolation & purification Species Specificity
Chemicals
Epitopes RNA, Viral DNA RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase
Authors & Affiliations
5 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Benveniste R E
Callahan R
Sherr C J
Chapman V
Todaro G J
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of virology
Abbr.
J Virol
ISSN
0022-538X
DOI
10.1128/JVI.21.3.849-862.1977
Published
1977-03-00
Pages
849-62
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
0113724
PMCID
PMC515622
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/JVI.21.3.849-862.1977 PMC Full Text View journal details
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