PMID: 9557656Apr 29, 1998Paper

An array of novel murine spleen focus-forming viruses that activate the erythropoietin receptor

Journal of Virology
E Gomez-LuciaM E Hoatlin

Abstract

The Friend spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) env gene encodes a 409-amino-acid glycoprotein with an apparent Mr of 55,000 (gp55) that binds to erythropoietin receptors (EpoR) to stimulate erythroblastosis. We reported previously the in vivo selection during serial passages in mice of several evolutionary intermediates that culminated in the formation of a novel SFFV (M. E. Hoatlin, E. Gomez-Lucia, F. Lilly, J. H. Beckstead, and D. Kabat, J. Virol. 72:3602-3609, 1998). A mouse injected with a retroviral vector in the presence of a nonpathogenic helper virus developed long-latency erythroblastosis, and subsequent viral passages resulted in more pathogenic isolates. The viruses taken from these mice converted an erythropoietin-dependent cell line (BaF3/EpoR) into factor-independent derivatives. Western blot analysis of cell extracts with an antiserum that broadly reacts with murine retroviral envelope glycoproteins suggested that the spleen from the initial mouse with mild erythoblastosis contained an array of viral components that were capable of activating EpoR. DNA sequence analysis of the viral genomes cloned from different factor-independent cell clones revealed env genes with open reading frames encoding 644, 449, and 187 am...Continue Reading

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