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. 1980 Feb;33(2):760–768. doi: 10.1128/jvi.33.2.760-768.1980

Arrangement of Integrated Avian Sarcoma Virus DNA Sequences Within the Cellular Genomes of Transformed and Revertant Mammalian Cells

Carolyn J Collins 1, David Boettiger 2, Todd L Green 1, Mary B Burgess 1, Blythe H Devlin 1, J Thomas Parsons 1
PMCID: PMC288601  PMID: 6251247

Abstract

We have examined the arrangement of integrated avian sarcoma virus (ASV) DNA sequences in several different avian sarcoma virus transformed mammalian cell lines, in independently isolated clones of avian sarcoma virus transformed rat liver cells, and in morphologically normal revertants of avian sarcoma virus transformed rat embryo cells. By using restriction endonuclease digestion, agarose gel electrophoresis, Southern blotting, and hybridization with labeled avian sarcoma virus complementary DNA probes, we have compared the restriction enzyme cleavage maps of integrated viral DNA and adjacent cellular DNA sequences in four different mouse and rat cell lines transformed with either Bratislava 77 or Schmidt-Ruppin strains of avian sarcoma virus. The results of these experiments indicated that the integrated viral DNA resided at a different site within the host cell genome in each transformed cell line. A similar analysis of several independently derived clones of Schmidt-Ruppin transformed rat liver cells also revealed that each clone contained a unique cellular site for the integration of proviral DNA. Examination of several morphologically normal revertants and spontaneous retransformants of Schmidt-Ruppin transformed rat embryo cells revealed that the internal arrangement and cellular integration site of viral DNA sequences was identical with that of the transformed parent cell line. The loss of the transformed phenotype in these revertant cell lines, therefore, does not appear to be the result of rearrangement or deletions either within the viral genome or in adjacent cellular DNA sequences. The data presented support a model for ASV proviral DNA integration in which recombination can occur at multiple sites within the mammalian cell genome. The integration and maintenance of at least one complete copy of the viral genome appear to be required for continuous expression of the transformed phenotype in mammalian cells.

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