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. 1985 Feb;53(2):624–633. doi: 10.1128/jvi.53.2.624-633.1985

Murine sarcoma virus ts110 RNA transcripts: origin from a single proviral DNA and sequence of the gag-mos junctions in both the precursor and spliced viral RNAs.

M A Nash, B L Brizzard, J L Wong, E C Murphy Jr
PMCID: PMC254678  PMID: 2982040

Abstract

Our previous studies have argued persuasively that in murine sarcoma virus ts110 (MuSVts110) the gag and mos genes are fused out of frame due to a approximately 1.5-kilobase (kb) deletion of wild-type murine sarcoma virus 349 (MuSV-349) viral information. As a consequence of this deletion, infected cells grown at 39 degrees C appear morphologically normal, producing a 4-kb viral RNA and a truncated gag gene product, P58gag. At 33 degrees C, however, MuSVts110-infected cells appear transformed, producing two viral RNAs, about 4 and 3.5 kb in length, and two viral proteins, P58gag and P85gag-mos. Recent S1 nuclease analyses (Nash et al., J. Virol. 50:478-488, 1984) suggested strongly that at 33 degrees C about 430 bases surrounding the out-of-frame gag-mos junction and bounded by consensus splice donor and acceptor sites are excised from the 4-kb RNA to form the 3.5-kb RNA. As a result of this apparent splicing event, the gag and mos genes seemed to be fused in frame and allowed the translation of P85gag-mos. In the present study, DNA primers hybridizing to the MuSVts110 4- and 3.5-kb RNAs just downstream of the gag-mos junction points were used to sequence these junctions by the primer extension method. We observed that, relative to wild-type MuSV-349 5.2-kb RNA, the MuSVts110 4-kb RNA had suffered a 1,488-base deletion as a result of the fusion of wild-type gag gene nucleotide 2404 to wild-type mos gene nucleotide 3892. This gag-mos junction is out of frame, containing both TAG and TGA termination codons in the reading frame 42 and 50 bases downstream of the gag-mos junction, respectively. Thus, the MuSVts110 4-kb RNA can only be translated into a truncated gag precursor containing an additional C-terminal 14 amino acid residues derived from an alternate mos gene reading frame. Similar analyses of the MuSVts110 3.5-kb RNA showed a further loss of both gag and mos sequences over those deleted in the original 1,488-base deletion. In the MuSVts110 3.5-kb RNA, we found that gag nucleotide 2017 was fused to mos nucleotide 3936 (nucleotide 2449 in the MuSVts110 4-kb genome). This 431-base excised fragment is bounded exactly by in-frame consensus splice donor and acceptor sequences. As a consequence of this splice event, the TAG codon is excised and the restoration of the original mos gene reading frame allows the TGA codon to be bypassed.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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