PMID: 9557641Apr 29, 1998Paper

Origin and rapid evolution of a novel murine erythroleukemia virus of the spleen focus-forming virus family

Journal of Virology
M E HoatlinD Kabat

Abstract

The Friend spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) env gene encodes a glycoprotein with apparent Mr of 55,000 that binds to erythropoietin receptors (EpoR) to stimulate erythroblastosis. A retroviral vector that does not encode any Env glycoprotein was packaged into retroviral particles and was coinjected into mice in the presence of a nonpathogenic helper virus. Although most mice remained healthy, one mouse developed splenomegaly and polycythemia at 67 days; the virus from this mouse reproducibly caused the same symptoms in secondary recipients by 2 to 3 weeks postinfection. This disease, which was characterized by extramedullary erythropoietin-independent erythropoiesis in the spleens and livers, was also reproduced in long-term bone marrow cultures. Viruses from the diseased primary mouse and from secondary recipients converted an erythropoietin-dependent cell line (BaF3/EpoR) into factor-independent derivatives but had no effect on the interleukin-3-dependent parental BaF3 cells. Most of these factor-independent cell clones contained a major Env-related glycoprotein with an Mr of 60,000. During further in vivo passaging, a virus that encodes an Mr-55,000 glycoprotein became predominant. Sequence analysis indicated that the ultim...Continue Reading

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