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. 1989 Mar;9(3):995–1004. doi: 10.1128/mcb.9.3.995

High-level recombination specific to polyomavirus genomes targeted to the integration-transformation pathway.

D Hacker 1, M M Fluck 1
PMCID: PMC362689  PMID: 2542771

Abstract

An unusually high incidence of interviral recombination was found in the process of integration of the polyomavirus genome concomitant with neoplastic transformation of nonpermissive cells. Transformants were isolated after mixed infections of Fischer rat cells with two mutants lacking restriction endonuclease sites and were analyzed for the presence of unselected integrated recombinant restriction fragments. A large fraction of the transformants isolated (38% of the 64 transformed cell lines studied) contained recombinant viral genomes that had undergone recombination in a 1.3-, 1.7-, or 3.6-kilobase-pair interval. More than 90% of these recombinant transformants showed evidence of crossovers in multiple intervals. To our knowledge, the recombination frequencies observed in these experiments represent the highest frequencies of homologous recombination reported for a mitotic mammalian system that does not involve transfection. In contrast to the elevated level of recombination in the integrated viral genomes, no evidence of recombination was obtained among the replicated unintegrated pool of viral genomes isolated from the same population of infected cells from which the recombinant transformants were derived. Either of two hypotheses can provide an explanation for the segregated recombination: either recombination occurs at elevated levels in a small, recombination-prone fraction of the population destined to become transformed, or recombination occurs only among those viral genomes which are engaged in the process of integration and thus interact with a recombinogenic host machinery (for example, the host scaffold). We favor the latter hypothesis.

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