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. 1981 Dec;40(3):901–911. doi: 10.1128/jvi.40.3.901-911.1981

Genetic relationship between the Mus cervicolor M432 retrovirus and the Mus Musculus intracisternal type A particle.

R Callahan, E L Kuff, K K Lueders, E Birkenmeier
PMCID: PMC256701  PMID: 6275124

Abstract

The genetic relationship between the retrovirus-like intracisternal type A particle (IAP) from Mus musculus and the novel retrovirus (M432) from M. cervicolor has been determined by heteroduplex and restriction endonuclease analyses of molecular clones of the respective genomes. We have found a major homology region (3.7 kilobase pairs) which probably begins near the 3' end of the M432 gag gene, spans the pol gene, and ends in the env gene. A second region (0.6 kilobase pairs) of weak homology was also observed adjacent to the 3' long terminal repeats of the respective genomes. The IAP genome is well conserved in the cellular DNA of all species of the genus Mus. In contrast, cellular DNA sequences related to the 5' end of the M432 genome, which shares no homology with the IAP genome, are found only in M. cervicolor and the closely related species M. cookii. These results suggest that the infectious M432 retroviral genome arose as a result of a recombinational event(s) between the IAP genome and another, as yet unidentified, class of retrovirus-related sequences or other cellular sequences.

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