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. 1980 Oct;36(1):22–40. doi: 10.1128/jvi.36.1.22-40.1980

Integration Sites of Adenovirus Type 12 DNA in Transformed Hamster Cells and Hamster Tumor Cells

S Stabel 1, W Doerfler 1, R R Friis 2
PMCID: PMC353613  PMID: 7441821

Abstract

The patterns and sites of integration of adenovirus type 12 (Ad12) DNA were determined in three lines of Ad12-transformed hamster cells and in two lines of Ad12-induced hamster tumor cells. The results of a detailed analysis can be summarized as follows. (i) All cell lines investigated contained multiple copies (3 to 22 genome equivalents per cell in different lines) of the entire Ad12 genome. In addition, fragments of Ad12 DNA also persisted separately in non-stoichiometric amounts. (ii) All Ad12 DNA copies were integrated into cellular DNA. Free viral DNA molecules did not occur. The terminal regions of Ad12 DNA were linked to cellular DNA. The internal parts of the integrated viral genomes, and perhaps the entire viral genome, remained colinear with virion DNA. (iii) Except for line HA12/7, there were fewer sites of integration than Ad12 DNA molecules persisting. This finding suggested either that viral DNA was integrated at identical sites in repetitive DNA or, more likely, that one or a few viral DNA molecules were amplified upon integration together with the adjacent cellular DNA sequences, leading to a serial arrangement of viral DNA molecules separated by cellular DNA sequences. Likewise, in the Ad12-induced hamster tumor lines (CLAC1 and CLAC3), viral DNA was linked to repetitive cellular sequences. Serial arrangement of Ad12 DNA molecules in these lines was not likely. (iv) In general, true tandem integration with integrated viral DNA molecules directly abutting each other was not found. Instead, the data suggested that the integrated viral DNA molecules were separated by cellular or rearranged viral DNA sequences. (v) The results of hybridization experiments, in which a highly specific probe (143-base pair DNA fragment) derived from the termini of Ad12 DNA was used, were not consistent with models of integration involving true tandem integration of Ad12 DNA or covalent circularization of Ad12 DNA before insertion into the cellular genome. (vi) Evidence was presented that a small segment at the termini of the integrated Ad12 DNA in cell lines HA12/7, T637, and A2497-3 was repeated several times. The exact structures of these repeat units remained to be determined. The occurrence of these units might reflect the mechanism of amplification of viral and cellular sequences in transformed cell lines.

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