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. 1984 May;50(2):572–578. doi: 10.1128/jvi.50.2.572-578.1984

Monoclonal antibodies to the transforming protein of Fujinami avian sarcoma virus discriminate between different fps-encoded proteins.

J Ingman-Baker, E Hinze, J G Levy, T Pawson
PMCID: PMC255674  PMID: 6323756

Abstract

Two monoclonal antibodies have been obtained that recognize antigenic determinants within the C-terminal fps-encoded region of P140gag-fps, the transforming protein of Fujinami avian sarcoma virus (FSV). The hybridomas which secrete these antibodies (termed 88AG and p26C) were isolated after the fusion of NS-1 mouse myeloma cells with B lymphocytes from Fischer rats that had been immunized with FSV-transformed rat-1 cells. FSV P140gag-fps immunoprecipitated by either antibody is active as a tyrosine-specific kinase and is able to autophosphorylate and to phosphorylate enolase in vitro. The fps-encoded proteins of all FSV variants, including the gag- p91fps protein of F36 virus, are recognized by both monoclonal antibodies. However, the product of the avian cellular c-fps gene. NCP98, and the transforming proteins of the recently isolated fps-containing avian sarcoma viruses 16L and UR1 are recognized only by the p26C antibody. The 88AG antibody therefore defines an epitope specific for FSV fps, whereas the epitope for p26C is conserved between cellular and viral fps proteins. The P105gag-fps protein of the PRCII virus is not precipitated by p26C (nor by 88AG), presumably as a consequence of the deletion of N-terminal fps sequences. These data indicate that the fps-encoded peptide sequences of 16L P142gag-fps and UR1 P150gag-fps are more closely related to NCP98 than that of FSV P140gag-fps. This supports the view that 16L and UR1 viruses represent recent retroviral acquisitions of the c-fps oncogene. The P85gag-fes transforming protein of Snyder-Theilen feline sarcoma virus is not precipitated by either monoclonal antibody but is recognized by some antisera from FSV tumor-bearing rats, demonstrating that fps-specific antigenic determinants are conserved in fes-encoded proteins.

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