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. 1996 Apr;70(4):2230–2236. doi: 10.1128/jvi.70.4.2230-2236.1996

ts1-Induced spongiform encephalomyelopathy: physical forms of high-mobility DNA in spinal cord tissues of paralyzed mice are products of premature termination of reverse transcription.

P F Szurek 1, B R Brooks 1
PMCID: PMC190063  PMID: 8642647

Abstract

ts1 is a temperature-sensitive mutant of Moloney murine leukemia virus that causes hind-limb paralysis in mice. In tissues of the central nervous systems of paralyzed moribund FVB/N mice, a major component of the unintegrated viral DNA of ts1 consists of highly mobile physical forms of viral-specific DNA (HM DNA). Previous studies with ecotropic virus-specific polarity probes showed that the gp70-coding region of the env gene in the HM DNA was minus-sense single-stranded DNA. The physical forms of the HM DNA have now been characterized in more detail with additional ecotropic virus-specific probes that hybridized to the p15E-coding region of the env gene and two locations within the U3 region of the long terminal repeat. Two major classes of HM DNA were found: class I molecules consist of short minus-sense single-stranded DNA; class II molecules are partial DNA duplexes that are longer than the class I molecules. The two classes of HM DNA molecules are intermediate products of reverse transcription of the viral RNA of ts1. Since tissues that are infected with cytopathic retroviruses may contain high levels of unintegrated viral DNA, the HM DNA may have a role in inducing neurodegeneration in the central nervous systems of mice that are infected with ts1.

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