Analysis of two strains of Friend murine leukemia viruses differing in ability to induce early splenomegaly: lack of relationship with generation of recombinant mink cell focus-forming viruses.
AUTOR(ES)
Sitbon, M
RESUMO
Friend murine leukemia helper viruses (F-MuLV) 57 and B3 were indistinguishable by genomic structural analyses with RNase T1-resistant oligonucleotide fingerprinting and by antigenic reactivity with a panel of 31 monoclonal antibodies directed against murine leukemia viruses. Nevertheless, F-MuLV 57 and B3 had strikingly different virulences. Approximately 2 months after inoculation, IRW and NFS/N mice inoculated as newborns with F-MuLV 57 had gross splenomegaly caused by erythroid proliferation. In contrast, an equivalent dose of F-MuLV B3 induced spleen or lymph node enlargement 4 to 13 months after inoculation. Although most cases of spleen enlargement in F-MuLV B3-inoculated mice were due to erythroid proliferation, lymphoid or myeloid proliferation was also frequently observed. The replication of both F-MuLV 57 and B3 was equally efficient, and both viruses generated recombinant dual-tropic mink cell focus-forming (MCF) viruses with the same kinetics and efficiency. Moreover, MCF viruses induced by F-MuLV 57 and B3 had the same antigenic patterns. Therefore, the ability of F-MuLV to induce early splenomegaly did not correlate with the generation of recombinant MCF viruses.
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