Truncated gag products encoded by Gv-1-responsive endogenous retrovirus loci

Author:

Policastro P F1,Fredholm M1,Wilson M C1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California 92037.

Abstract

The conversion of endogenous or exogenous murine retroviruses to a leukemogenic phenotype involves recombination with retroviral sequences present in host genomic DNA. In the 129 Gix+ inbred strain, these endogenous sequences are replication defective but still express retroviral proteins under the apparent transcriptional control of the Gv-1 regulatory locus. To study the protein-coding potential of Gv-1-regulated endogenous retroviral loci, we used oligonucleotide probes directed to env deletion breakpoints identified in previously characterized cDNA clones. Four endogenous retroviral loci were isolated from a library of 129 Gix+ genomic DNA with these probes. Three loci cloned with the env deletion probe del env-1 had virtually identical proviral inserts by restriction analysis. A unique locus was identified and cloned with the del env-2 probe, which must therefore represent a Gv-1-responsive element. Restriction enzyme and nucleotide sequence analyses indicated that the del env-1 and del env-2 loci represented members of the polytropic and modified polytropic classes of endogenous retrovirus, respectively. Despite this divergence, members of both classes contained identical deletions of 19 nucleotides within p30gag and of 1,474 nucleotides from p10gag into the reverse transcriptase-coding region of pol, suggesting that a recombination event had occurred between these proviral sequences prior to insertion within the genome. The del env-1 and del env-2 loci retained coding capacity for truncated gag polyproteins, confirmed by in vitro translation and immunoprecipitation of the protein products. Nucleotide sequence comparison of the untranslated leader (L) regions of the del env-1 and del env-2 loci to a replication-competent ecotropic virus indicated regions that might be important to dispersion of these endogenous retroviral elements throughout the host genome.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

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