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. 1980 Aug;35(2):400–408. doi: 10.1128/jvi.35.2.400-408.1980

Isolation and Identification of Lymphocytic and Myelogenous Leukemia-Specific Sequences in Genomes of Gibbon Oncornaviruses

Lily Sun 1, Thomas G Kawakami 1
PMCID: PMC288824  PMID: 6255180

Abstract

Five gibbon ape leukemia virus substrains (two from gibbons with lymphocytic leukemia and three from gibbons with myelogenous leukemia) were examined for unique genomic sequences specific for each form of leukemia. By using sequential adsorption procedures, the genome from each gibbon ape leukemia virus was fractionated into four sets of distinct nucleotide sequences. Based on their hybridization specificities toward DNAs of leukemic tissues, these sequences were designated as follows: (i) “COM,” (ii) “LYM” or “MYE,” (iii) “UNI,” and (iv) “UND.” The COM fraction represented sequences common to all of the viral genomes. The LYM fraction, which was isolated only from gibbon ape leukemia viruses associated with lymphocytic leukemia, represented genomic sequences associated with lymphocytic leukemia since the RNA hybridized at a 4- to 15-fold-higher rate to infected tissue DNA from lymphocytic leukemic gibbons than to infected tissue DNA from myelogenous leukemic gibbons. The MYE fraction, which was isolated only from gibbon ape leukemia viruses associated with myelogenous leukemia, represented genomic sequences associated with myelogenous leukemia since the RNA hybridized at a 5- to 15-fold-higher rate to infected tissue DNA from myelogenous leukemic gibbons than to infected tissue DNA from lymphocytic leukemic gibbons. The UNI fraction contained sequences unique to one virus substrain. The UND fraction contained sequences which varied depending upon the substrains involved in the adsorption procedures. These findings suggest that each gibbon ape leukemia virus examined in this study contains subgenomic sequences that are specifically identifiable only with the form of leukemia from which the virus was isolated.

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