Faculty Research 1980 - 1989

Organization, distribution, and stability of endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus DNA sequences in chromosomes of Mus musculus.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1982

Keywords

Base-Sequence, Chromosomes: an, DNA-Restriction-Enzymes, DNA-Viral, Genes-Viral, Mice, Mice-Inbred-Strains: ge, mi, Mouse-Leukemia-Viruses: ge, Nucleic-Acid-Hybridization, Recombination-Genetic, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

26

Last Page

36

JAX Source

J-Virol. 1982 Jul; 43(1):26-36.

Grant

NO

Abstract

The endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia virus DNA content and integration sites were characterized for 54 inbred strains and substrains of mice by restriction enzyme digestion, Southern blotting, and hybridization with an ecotropic murine leukemia virus DNA-specific probe. More than 75% of these strains carried endogenous ecotropic proviruses which were located in at least 29 distinct integration sites in chromosomes of Mus musculus. Fourteen of these proviruses have been assigned specific locus designations. Most, but not all, of the endogenous ecotropic proviruses were structurally indistinguishable by this analysis from the prototype AKR ecotropic virus, and the distribution of these proviruses followed known relationships among the inbred strains and substrains of mice. These results suggest that, in general, viral DNA integration preceded the establishment of inbred mouse strains and that these integrations are relatively stable.

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