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. 1980 Mar;33(3):1225–1228. doi: 10.1128/jvi.33.3.1225-1228.1980

Integration Pattern of Human JC Virus Sequences in Two Clones of a Cell Line Established from a JC Virus-Induced Hamster Brain Tumor

William S M Wold 1, Maurice Green 1, Jesse K Mackey 1, Jonathan D Martin 2, Billie L Padgett 2, Duard L Walker 2
PMCID: PMC288659  PMID: 6245274

Abstract

The physical state of the JC virus (JCV) genome was studied in two clonal cell lines (clones 2 and 7) derived from a tissue culture cell line (HJC-15) established from a hamster brain tumor induced by JCV. Saturation-hybridization and reassociation kinetic analyses, using in vitro 32P-labeled JCV DNA, indicated that clone 7 and 2 cells contain 9 to 10 and 4 to 5 copies per cell, respectively, of all or most of the viral genome. Both cell DNAs were analyzed by using the Southern blotting procedure with three restriction endonucleases: XhoI, which does not cleave JCV DNA; EcoRI, which cleaves once; and HindIII, which cleaves three times. With each DNA, a variety of JCV-specific DNA fragments were detected. The following conclusions are possible: (i) JCV DNA is integrated into cell DNA in both clonal lines; (ii) both clonal lines contain multiple copies of the viral genome integrated in a tandem head-to-tail orientation; (iii) neither clonal line contains detectable free-form I, II, or III JCV DNA; (iv) each clonal line contains multiple independent sites of JCV DNA integration; and (v) most or all of the sites of integration on the cellular or the viral genome, or both, are different in clone 7 DNA than in clone 2 DNA. Thus, although both clone 7 and clone 2 cells were established from the HJC-15 tumor cell line, they differ in the copy number and integration pattern of JCV DNA.

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