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. 1979 Jan;29(1):91–101. doi: 10.1128/jvi.29.1.91-101.1979

Characterization of some isolates of newly recovered avian sarcoma virus.

C C Halpern, W S Hayward, H Hanafusa
PMCID: PMC353080  PMID: 219237

Abstract

We previously reported the isolation of a newly recovered avian sarcoma virus (rASV) from tumors of chickens injected with transformation-defective (td) mutants of the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus (SR-RSV). In this paper, we present further biological and biochemical characterization of the recovered sarcoma viruses. High titers of rASV's were generally obtained by cocultivation of tumor cells with normal chicken embryo fibroblasts or by homogenization of tumor tissues. Most rASV isolates were similar to SR-RSV, subgroup A (SR-RSV-A), in their growth characteristics and were nondefective in replication. The subgroup specificity of rASV's and the electrophoretic mobilities of their structural proteins were the same as those parental td viruses. The nondefectiveness of rASV's was further substantiated by the size of their genomic RNA, which was indistinguishable from that of SR-RSV-A and substantially larger than that of parental td RNA. Molecular hybridization using complementary DNA specific to the src gene of SR-RSV (cDNAsrc) showed that the RNAs of td mutants used in this study contained extensive deletions within the src gene (7 to 30% hybridization with cDNAsrc); the same probe hybridized up to 90% with RNA from two isolates of rASV. These data indicate that rASV has regained genetic information which had been deleted in the td mutants and strongly suggest that the generation of rASV involves a genetic interaction between td virus and host cell genetic information.

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