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. 1982 Nov;44(2):574–585. doi: 10.1128/jvi.44.2.574-585.1982

Effects of large and small T antigens on DNA synthesis and cell division in simian virus 40-transformed BALB/c 3T3 cells.

J B Christensen, W W Brockman
PMCID: PMC256301  PMID: 6292518

Abstract

The roles of the large T and small t antigens of simian virus 40 in cellular DNA synthesis and cell division were analyzed in BALB/c 3T3 mouse cells transformed by wild-type, temperature-sensitive A (tsA), or tsA-deletion (tsA/dl) double mutants. Assessment of DNA replication and cell cycle distribution by radioautography of [3H]thymidine-labeled nuclei and by flow microfluorimetry indicate that tsA transformants do not synthesize DNA or divide at the restrictive temperature to the same extent as they do at the permissive temperature or as wild-type transformants do at the restrictive temperature. This confirms earlier studies suggesting that large T induces DNA synthesis and mitosis in transformed cells. Inhibition of replication in tsA transformants at the restrictive temperature, however, is not complete. Some residual cell division does occur but is in large part offset by cell detachment and death. This failure to revert completely to the parental 3T3 phenotype, as indicated by residual cell cycling at the restrictive temperature, was also observed in cells transformed by tsA/dl double mutants which, in addition to producing a ts large T, make no small t protein. Small t, therefore, does not appear to be responsible for the residual cell cycling and plays no demonstrable role in the induction of DNA synthesis or cell division in stably transformed BALB/c 3T3 cells. Comparison of cell cycling in tsA and tsA/dl transformants, normal 3T3 cells, and a transformation revertant suggests that the failure of tsA transformants to revert completely may be due to leakiness of the tsA mutation as well as to a permanent cellular alteration induced during viral transformation. Finally, analysis of cells transformed by tsA/dl double mutants indicates that small t is not required for full expression of growth properties characteristic of transformed cells.

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