Critical Friend
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13. Critical Role for CD4+ T Cells in Controlling Retrovirus Replication and Spread in Persistently Infected Mice
Reactivations of persistent viral infections pose a significant medical problem in immunocompromised cancer, transplant, and AIDS patients, yet little is known about how persistent viral infections are immunologically controlled. Here we describe a mouse model for investigating the role of the immune response in controlling a persistent retroviral infection.
American Society for Microbiology.
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14. Inhibition of the growth and differentiation of erythroid precursor cells by an endotoxin-induced mediator from peritoneal macrophages.
Conditioned medium from cultures of mouse macrophages incubated with endotoxin in a serum-free medium contains an inhibitor of the growth and differentiation of erythroid precursor cells of mouse Friend virus-transformed erythroleukemia cells. Endotoxin itself has no inhibitory effect. The endotoxin-induced macrophage mediator inhibits the growth and differe
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15. A tagged helper-free Friend virus causes clonal erythroblast immortality by specific proviral integration in the cellular genome.
A colinear molecular clone of the Lilly-Steeves polycythemia strain of Friend spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) was modified by inserting a 215-base-pair tag of simian virus 40 DNA into its nonfunctional pol gene region. The DNA was then transfected into psi-2 packaging cells, and helper-free tagged SFFV was recovered in the culture medium. Injection of this
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16. Coregulator-dependent facilitation of chromatin occupancy by GATA-1
Coregulator recruitment by DNA-bound factors results in chromatin modification and protein-protein interactions, which regulate transcription. However, the mechanism by which the Friend of GATA (FOG) coregulator mediates GATA factor-dependent transcription is unknown. We showed previously that GATA-1 replaces GATA-2 at an upstream region of the GATA-2 locus,
National Academy of Sciences.
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17. Identification of the Receptor Binding Domain of the Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Envelope Protein
Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a betaretrovirus that infects rodent cells and uses mouse transferrin receptor 1 for cell entry. To characterize the interaction of MMTV with its receptor, we aligned the MMTV envelope surface (SU) protein with that of Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MLV) and identified a putative receptor-binding domain (RBD) that include
American Society for Microbiology.
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18. The zinc finger of nucleocapsid protein of Friend murine leukemia virus is critical for proviral DNA synthesis in vivo.
Nucleocapsid protein NCp10 of murine leukemia virus (MuLV) is encoded by the 3' domain of gag and contains a zinc finger of the form Cys-X2-Cys-X4-His-X4-Cys flanked by basic amino acids. In the course of virus assembly, NCp10 is necessary for core formation, and the zinc finger flanked by the basic residues is required for the packaging of the genomic RNA d
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19. Differing T-cell requirements for recombinant retrovirus vaccines.
Friend murine leukemia virus is a retrovirus complex that induces rapid erythroleukemia and immunosuppression in susceptible strains of adult mice. Using this model, we directly examined the T-cell subsets required for a protective retrovirus vaccine. Paradoxically, recovery in mice immunized with a chimeric envelope containing only T-helper (TH) and B-cell
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20. Immunosuppression by CD4+ regulatory T cells induced by chronic retroviral infection
Normal levels of CD4+ regulatory T cells are critical for the maintenance of immunological homeostasis and the prevention of autoimmune diseases. However, we now show that the expansion of CD4+ regulatory T cells in response to a chronic viral infection can lead to immunosuppression. Mice persistently infected with Friend retrovirus develop approximately twi
The National Academy of Sciences.
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21. Mutational analysis of N-linked glycosylation sites of Friend murine leukemia virus envelope protein.
The roles played by the N-linked glycans of the Friend murine leukemia virus envelope proteins were investigated by site-specific mutagenesis. The surface protein gp70 has eight potential attachment sites for N-linked glycan; each signal asparagine was converted to aspartate, and mutant viruses were tested for the ability to grow in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. Seve
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22. Receptor Binding Transforms the Surface Subunit of the Mammalian C-Type Retrovirus Envelope Protein from an Inhibitor to an Activator of Fusion
The envelope protein (Env) of murine leukemia viruses (MLVs) is composed of a surface subunit (SU) and a transmembrane subunit (TM), which mediates membrane fusion, resulting in infection. SU contains a discrete N-terminal receptor binding domain (RBD) that is connected to the remainder of Env by a short, proline-rich segment. Previous studies suggest that a
American Society for Microbiology.
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23. Structure and Mechanism of a Coreceptor for Infection by a Pathogenic Feline Retrovirus
Infection of T lymphocytes by the cytopathic retrovirus feline leukemia virus subgroup T (FeLV-T) requires FeLIX, a cellular coreceptor that is encoded by an endogenous provirus and closely resembles the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of feline leukemia virus subgroup B (FeLV-B). We determined the structure of FeLV-B RBD, which has FeLIX activity, to a 2.5-Å
American Society for Microbiology.
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24. Correlation of leukemogenic potential of murine retroviruses with transcriptional tissue preference of the viral long terminal repeats.
Recombination studies have established that retroviral long terminal repeats (LTRs) are important genetic determinants of the viral capacity to induce hematopoietic tumors and to specify the type of cell making up the tumor. Plasmids containing LTRs of several murine leukemia viruses linked to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene were tested in transie