Spontaneous regression of Friend virus-induced erythroleukemia. VI. Structural and antigenic differences between the regressing and conventional strains of virus.

AUTOR(ES)

Furmanski, P

RESUMO

The regressing and conventional strains of Friend virus were compared by neutralization assays, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and tryptic peptide mapping of the individual viral components. Neutralization rates of the two viruses differed in the presence of monospecific anti-gp70 antiserum and sera from regressed or immunized mice. Neutralization of regressing Friend virus, but not conventional Friend virus, occurred when the viruses were incubated with anti-p15(E) and complement. Human serum inactivated conventional Friend virus more rapidly than regressing Friend virus, probably as a result of virolysis induced by the reaction of viral p15(E) with human complement component C1. Structural differences between the viruses were detected in their gp70 viral glycoproteins and p15(E) and p12 proteins. Analysis of different stocks and clonal isolates of the viruses showed that the differences between the gp70 and p15(E), but not the p12 proteins, were associated with the regressing phenotype of the regressing strain of Friend virus.

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