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. 1981 Jan;37(1):295–306. doi: 10.1128/jvi.37.1.295-306.1981

Recurring defective variants of simian virus 40 containing monkey DNA segments.

J Papamatheakis, T N Lee, R E Thayer, M F Singer
PMCID: PMC171007  PMID: 6260983

Abstract

Four independently and newly isolated defective variants of simian virus 40 have been characterized. All four are very similar, if not identical, to two previously and independently isolated variants (Wakamiya et al., J. Biol. Chem. 254:3584-3591, 1979; J. Papamatheakis, E. Kuff, E. Winocour, and M. F. Singer, J. Biol. Chem. 255:8919-8927, 1980). The documented similarities include restriction endonuclease maps and the presence of the same monkey DNA segments covalently linked to simian virus 40 DNA sequences. Each of the newly described variants was first detected upon serial passaging of wild-type simian virus 40 at a high multiplicity of infection at 33 degrees C as recently described (M. F. Singer and R. E. Thayer, J. Virol. 35:141-149, 1980). A variety of experiments support the idea that the various isolates were independent and do not reflect inadvertent cross-contamination. Two of the new isolates arose during passage of wild-type strain 777 virus in BSC-1 cells, one during passage of strain 776 in BSC-1 cells, and one during passage of strain 776 in primary African green monkey kidney cells. The two variants obtained after passage of strain 776 were shown to contain a particular recognition site for restriction endonuclease MboII within their simian virus 40 DNA segments, as do the two previous isolates. This site is not present in wild-type strain 776 DNA but is shown here to be present in wild-type strain 777 DNA. The surprising recurrence of closely related variants and particularly the unexpected presence of the endo R.MboII site in variants derived from passaging strain 776 suggest that these variants may arise by mechanisms other than recombination between the initial infecting viral genome and the host DNA.

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