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. 1989 Dec;63(12):5405–5412. doi: 10.1128/jvi.63.12.5405-5412.1989

Fv-4 resistance gene: a truncated endogenous murine leukemia virus with ecotropic interference properties.

H Ikeda 1, H Sugimura 1
PMCID: PMC251208  PMID: 2555565

Abstract

Fv-4 is a mouse gene which controls susceptibility to infection by ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV). We previously cloned part of an endogenous MuLV associated with the resistance allele of the Fv-4 gene (Fv-4r). In this report, we describe an extended clone of the Fv-4r allele consisting of a 17-kilobase DNA fragment containing the retroviral sequence and its 5'-flanking sequence. The new DNA clone contains a truncated MuLV with delta pol-env-long terminal repeat sequences but no other MuLV-reactive sequence within 13 kilobases upstream of the truncated MuLV. Transfection of this clone into mouse cells led to transcription of Fv-4 env mRNA, expression of the Fv-4r-specific MuLV envelope protein, and resistance to infection with ecotropic MuLV but not amphotropic and dualtropic MuLVs. Restriction of ecotropic viruses appears to occur at or before viral cDNA synthesis. This result is consistent with a model of receptor interference for Fv-4 restriction. Our data also suggest that the 5' non-MuLV sequence is important for biological function, since a DNA clone which lacks most of the 5'-flanking sequence did not efficiently confer the resistance phenotype.

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