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. 1994 Aug;68(8):4759–4767. doi: 10.1128/jvi.68.8.4759-4767.1994

Functional and biological properties of an avian variant long terminal repeat containing multiple A to G conversions in the U3 sequence.

M P Felder 1, D Laugier 1, B Yatsula 1, P Dezélée 1, G Calothy 1, M Marx 1
PMCID: PMC236415  PMID: 8035477

Abstract

We previously reported that infection of chicken embryonic neuroretina cells with Rous-associated virus type 1 leads to the frequent occurrence of spliced readthrough transcripts containing viral and cellular sequences. Generation of such chimeric transcripts constitutes a very early step in oncogene transduction. We report, here, the isolation of a c-mil transducing retrovirus, designated IC4, which contains a highly mutated U3 sequence in which 48% of A is converted to G. Functional analysis of this variant U3 indicated that these mutations do not impair viral transcription and replication; however, they abolish functioning of its polyadenylation signal, thus allowing readthrough transcription of downstream cellular sequences. On the basis of these results, we designed a nonreplicative retroviral vector, pIC4Neo, expressing the neomycin resistance (Neo(r)) gene under the control of the IC4 long terminal repeat. Infection of nondividing neuroretina cells with virus produced by a packaging cell line transfected with pIC4Neo occasionally resulted in sustained cell proliferation. Two independent G418-resistant proliferating cultures were found to express hybrid RNAs containing viral and cellular sequences. These sequences were characterized by reverse transcription-PCR and were identified in both cultures, suggesting that proliferation was correlated with a common integration locus. These results indicate that IC4Neo virus functions as a useful insertional mutagen and may allow identification of genes potentially involved in regulation of cell division.

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