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. 1974 Nov;14(5):1245–1252. doi: 10.1128/jvi.14.5.1245-1252.1974

Expression of the Major Internal Viral Polypeptide in Cells Transformed by Wild-Type and Temperature-Sensitive Murine Sarcoma Virus

Gad Spira a, Gordon R Dreesman a, Matilda Benyesh-Melnick a, Saul Kit a, Kenneth D Somers a,1
PMCID: PMC355641  PMID: 4139289

Abstract

Phenotypic expression of the murine intraspecies and interspecies antigenic determinants of the major type C viral structural 30,000-dalton polypeptide, p30, was measured by radioimmunoassay inhibition in cell lines from different species. Uninfected normal rat kidney (NRK) cells did not contain detectable levels of murine intraspecies and interspecies p30 antigen, whereas rat cells transformed by and producing murine sarcoma virus (MSV)-Moloney leukemia virus (M-MSV-MuLV) contained high levels of both murine intraspecies and interspecies p30 antigen. Significant amounts of murine intraspecies and interspecies p30 antigen were detected in wild-type MSV-transformed nonproducer NRK cells. The control of p30 antigen expression was examined in temperature-sensitive MSV-transformed nonproducer cells [NRK(MSV-1b)] which are cold sensitive for maintenance of the transformed phenotype. Both murine intraspecies and interspecies p30 antigens were detected in NRK(MSV-1b) cells when grown at the permissive (39 C) or nonpermissive (33 C) temperature, suggesting that p30 antigen expression is not correlated with maintenance of the transformed phenotype. The results demonstrate that previously undetectable p30 antigens are expressed in MSV-transformed nonproducer NRK cells, and suggest that the expression of p30 antigen may be a useful marker for viral gene expression in mammalian cells.

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