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Quantitative determination and location of newly synthesized virus-specific ribonucleic acid in chicken cells infected with rous sarcoma virus

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authors

  • Parsons, J. T.
  • Coffin, J. M.
  • Haroz, R. K.
  • Bromley, P. A.
  • Weissmann, Charles

publication date

  • 1973

journal

  • Journal of Virology  Journal

abstract

  • A sensitive and quantitative nucleic acid hybridization assay for the detection of radioactively labeled avian tumor virus-specific RNA in infected chicken cells has been developed. In our experiments we made use of the fact that DNA synthesized by virions of avian myeloblastosis virus in the presence of actinomycin D (AMV DNA) is complementary to at least 35% of the sequences of 70S RNA from the Schmidt-Ruppin strain (SRV) of Rous sarcoma virus. Annealing of radioactive RNA (either SRV RNA or RNA extensively purified from SRV-infected chicken cells) with AMV DNA followed by ribonuclease digestion and Sephadex chromatography yielded products which were characterized as avian tumor virus-specific RNA-DNA hybrids by hybridization competition with unlabeled 70S AMV RNA, equilibrium density-gradient centrifugation in Cs(2)SO(4) gradients, and by analysis of their ribonucleotide composition. The amount of viral RNA synthesized during pulse labeling with (3)H-uridine could be quantitated by the addition of an internal standard consisting of (32)P-labeled SRV RNA prior to purification and hybridization. This quantitative assay was used to determine that, in SRV-infected chicken cells labeled for increasing lengths of time with (3)H-uridine, labeled viral RNA appeared first in a nuclear fraction, then in a cytoplasmic fraction, and still later in mature virions. This observation is consistent with the hypothesis that RNA tumor virus RNA is synthesized in the nucleus of infected cells.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Avian Leukosis Virus
  • Avian Sarcoma Viruses
  • Base Sequence
  • Cell Nucleus
  • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Centrifugation, Density Gradient
  • Chick Embryo
  • Chromatography
  • Cytoplasm
  • DNA, Viral
  • Dactinomycin
  • Fibroblasts
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Phosphorus Isotopes
  • RNA, Viral
  • Ribonucleases
  • Ribonucleotides
  • Tritium
  • Uridine
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC355174

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-538X

PubMed ID

  • 4350719
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 761

end page

  • 774

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 5

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