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. 1988 Apr;62(4):1158–1166. doi: 10.1128/jvi.62.4.1158-1166.1988

Mechanism of selection of class II recombinant murine leukemia viruses in the highly leukemic strain CWD.

C Y Thomas 1, J S Roberts 1, V K Buxton 1
PMCID: PMC253123  PMID: 2831378

Abstract

The development of spontaneous lymphomas in CWD mice is associated with the expression of endogenous ecotropic murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) and the formation of recombinant viruses. However, the pattern of substitution of nonecotropic sequences within the envelope genes of the CWD class II recombinant viruses differs from that seen in class I recombinant MuLVs of AKR, C58, and HRS mice. To determine how CWD host genes might influence the envelope gene structure of the recombinant viruses, we characterized the responses of these mice to two different types of exogenous MuLVs. Neonatal mice injected the HRS class I recombinant PTV-1 became infected and developed T-cell lymphomas more rapidly than controls did. The inoculation of CWD mice with the leukemogenic AKR ecotropic virus SL3-3 led to the formation of recombinant MuLVs with a novel genetic structure and class II-like envelope genes, although SL3-3 generates class I recombinants in other strains. These results suggest that the absence of class I recombinant MuLVs in CWD mice is not related to the restriction of the replication or oncogenicity of class I viruses or to the absence of an appropriate ecotropic virus that can generate class I recombinants. More likely, the genes of CWD mice that direct the formation or selection of class II recombinant viruses affect the process of recombination between the ecotropic and nonecotropic envelope gene sequences.

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