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. 1980 Mar;33(3):936–944. doi: 10.1128/jvi.33.3.936-944.1980

Murine Leukemia Virus Proteins Expressed on the Surface of Infected Cells in Culture

Elena Buetti 1, Heidi Diggelmann 1
PMCID: PMC288626  PMID: 7365877

Abstract

Infection of JLS-V9 cells in culture with Rauscher murine leukemia virus induced the appearance on the cell surface of two classes of viral proteins: Rauscher murine leukemia virus gp70, and glycoproteins related to the viral core (gag) proteins with apparent molecular weights in sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels of 80 × 103 and 95 × 103. The latter proteins were identified by lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination of the cell surface and by metabolic labeling with [3H]mannose followed by immunoprecipitation with an antiserum directed against the major viral core protein, p30. Tryptic peptide maps of chloramine T-iodinated proteins indicated that 80 × 103 - and 95 × 103-molecular-weight proteins were closely related. The 95 × 103-molecular-weight protein from Rauscher murine leukemia virus-infected cells had a tyrosine fingerprint which was identical to that of the 95 × 103-molecular-weight gag surface polyprotein of endogenous virus-producing AKR-A cells, suggesting that expression on the cell surface of glycosylated forms of gag precursor polyproteins may not be an exclusive property of leukemic thymocytes, but a more general phenomenon in murine leukemia virus infection. Tryptic fingerprint analysis of iodinated viral and cell-bound gp70's before and after desialylation indicated a lower level of glycosylation in the cell-bound gp70 population than in virions. Analysis of only surface-iodinated gp70 showed a simple pattern of exposed tryptic peptides which was very similar in Rauscher murine leukemia virus-infected cells and in AKR-A cells.

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