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. 1979 Mar;29(3):1221–1225. doi: 10.1128/jvi.29.3.1221-1225.1979

Reticuloendotheliosis virus: detection of immunological relationship to mammalian type C retroviruses.

H P Charman, R V Gilden, S Oroszlan
PMCID: PMC353283  PMID: 87519

Abstract

Reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) p30 shares cross-reactive determinants and a common NH2-terminal tripeptide with mammalian type C viral p30's. An interspecies competition radioimmunoassay was developed, using iodinated REV p30 and a broadly reactive antiserum to mammalian virus p30's. The avian leukosis-sarcoma viruses and mammalian non-type C retroviruses did not compete in this assay. Previous data indicating that the REV group is not represented completely in normal avian cell DNA lead us to speculate that this may be the first example of interclass transmission, albeit in the remote past, among the Retroviridae.

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