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. 1993 Apr;13(4):2578–2585. doi: 10.1128/mcb.13.4.2578

Addition of constitutive c-myc expression to Abelson murine leukemia virus changes the phenotype of the cells transformed by the virus from pre-B-cell lymphomas to plasmacytomas.

E M Weissinger 1, H Mischak 1, J Goodnight 1, W F Davidson 1, J F Mushinski 1
PMCID: PMC359590  PMID: 8455630

Abstract

Abelson murine leukemia virus (A-MuLV), a retrovirus that expresses the v-abl oncogene, characteristically induces pre-B-cell lymphomas following in vivo infection of BALB/c mice or in vitro infection of suspensions of fetal liver or bone marrow cells. ABL-MYC, a retrovirus that expresses both v-abl and c-myc, induces solely plasmacytomas in BALB/c mice. To investigate how the addition of overexpression of c-myc to that of v-abl accomplishes this dramatic change in the phenotype of the cells transformed by these closely related retroviruses, we utilized helper-free A-MuLV (psi 2) and ABL-MYC (psi 2) in vitro to infect suspensions of cells from different lymphoid tissues and purified immature and purified mature B cells. As expected, A-MuLV(psi 2) induced only pre-B-cell lymphomas in vivo and in vitro when immature B cells were present. ABL-MYC(psi 2), on the other hand, produced only plasmacytomas, even when purified immature B lymphocytes were infected in vitro. Although the A-MuLV(psi 2)-induced pre-B-cell lymphomas express easily detectable levels of c-myc mRNA, maturation into more-mature forms of B lymphocytes is blocked. The constitutively overexpressed c-myc in the ABL-MYC retrovirus abrogates this block, permits maturation of infected immature B cells, and yields transformed plasma cells.

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