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. 1986 Nov;60(2):423–430. doi: 10.1128/jvi.60.2.423-430.1986

Effects of nonleukemogenic and wild-type Moloney murine leukemia virus on lymphoid cells in vivo: identification of a preleukemic shift in thymocyte subpopulations.

B R Davis, K G Chandy, B K Brightman, S Gupta, H Fan
PMCID: PMC288909  PMID: 3490580

Abstract

Infection of mice with Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV) as well as with a nonpathogenic variant, Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV, was studied. Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV differs from wild-type M-MuLV by the addition of enhancer sequences from polyomavirus in the long terminal repeat. Previous experiments indicated that Mo+PyF101 establishes infection in animals, even though it does not induce disease. In vivo infection studies with particular attention to the thymus were performed, since the thymus is the target organ for M-MuLV leukemogenesis. Mice inoculated at birth with wild-type M-MuLV developed maximal levels of thymic infection by 2 to 3 weeks. Animals inoculated with Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV showed considerably less thymic infection at early times (2 to 4 weeks); nevertheless, by 5 to 6 weeks infection equivalent to wild-type M-MuLV-inoculated animals developed. Therefore the nonpathogenicity of Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV did not simply reflect a lack of thymotropism. Furthermore, thymic infection by itself may not be sufficient to induce leukemia. The relative deficit of Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV thymic infection at early versus late times did not reflect a change in the nature of the cells in the thymus, since in vitro infection of primary thymocytes from 2- and 6-week-old animals was equally efficient. One possible explanation is that infected thymocytes normally arise from progenitor cells which were infected in the bone marrow or spleen, and the cells restricted for Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV are located in those organs. Comparison of wild-type and Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV also allowed identification of important preleukemic changes in the thymus of wild-type M-MuLV-inoculated mice. Flow cytometry with monoclonal antibodies specific for thymocyte subpopulations was used. Staining of cells for Thy-1 or Thy-1.2 antigens indicated a shift toward low or negative cells. A concomitant increase in cells positive for antigen Pgp-1 was also observed. This is consistent with an increase in the relative frequency of immature blastlike cells. Importantly, thymuses from mice inoculated with Mo+PyF101 M-MuLV did not show these shifts in thymocyte subpopulations.

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