scholarly journals AN ENZYMATIC FUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSFORMATION OF FIBROBLASTS BY ONCOGENIC VIRUSES

1973 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Unkeless ◽  
A. Tobia ◽  
L. Ossowski ◽  
J. P. Quigley ◽  
D. B. Rifkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fibrinolytic Activity ◽  
Short Interval ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Oncogenic Viruses ◽  
Dna Viruses ◽  
Rous Sarcoma ◽  
Enzymatic Function ◽  
Sarcoma Virus ◽  
One Step

Chick embryo fibroblast cultures develop fibrinolytic activity after transformation by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV). This fibrinolytic activity is not present in normal cultures, and it does not appear after infection with either nontransforming strains of avian leukosis viruses or cytocidal RNA and DNA viruses. In cultures infected with a temperature sensitive mutant of RSV the onset of fibrinolysis appears after exposure to permissive temperatures and precedes by a short interval the appearance of morphological evidence of transformation. See PDF for Structure The rate of fibrinolysis in transformed cultures depends on the nature of the serum that is present in the growth medium: some sera (e.g., monkey or chicken serum) promote high enzymatic activity, while others (calf, fetal bovine) do not. Some sera contain inhibitors of the fibrinolysin. Based on the effect of a small number of known inhibitors, at least one step of the fibrinolytic process shows specificity resembling that of trypsin. The sera of sarcoma-bearing chickens contain an inhibitor of the fibrinolysin, whereas normal chicken sera do not. For general discussion, conclusions, and summary see the accompanying paper, part II, (J. Exp. Med. 137:112).

scholarly journals AN ENZYMATIC FUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSFORMATION OF FIBROBLASTS BY ONCOGENIC VIRUSES

1973 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ossowski ◽  
J. C. Unkeless ◽  
A. Tobia ◽  
J. P. Quigley ◽  
D. B. Rifkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Change ◽  
Fibrinolytic Activity ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Specific Protein ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Oncogenic Viruses ◽  
Enzymatic Function ◽  
Fibroblast Cultures ◽  
Initial Appearance ◽  
A Cell

Chick, hamster, mouse, and rat embryo fibroblast cultures, transformed by either DNA or RNA viruses, show fibrinolytic activity under suitable conditions of growth and in appropriate media; normal counterpart cultures do not. The fibrinolysin is produced by the interaction of two protein factors: one of these, a cell factor, is released by transformed cells and accumulates in the medium when cultures are incubated in the absence of scrum. The second factor, the serum factor, is a specific protein that is present in sera of many avian and mammalian species, including man. Not all sera yield fibrinolysin on interaction with any given transformed cell factor, and the spectrum of activating sera is distinctive for each cell factor. This pattern appears to be determined by the cell type, rather than by the transforming virus. An important role for the fibrinolysin in oncogenic transformation is suggested by the following correlations. (a) The initial appearance of fibrinolysin precedes the morphological change after the transfer to permissive temperatures of chick fibroblast cultures infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of RSV. (b) The initiation of fibrinolysis and of morphological change both require the synthesis of new protein, but not the synthesis of either DNA or rRNA. (c) The activity of the fibrinolysin is correlated with the retention of abnormal morphology in hamster cells transformed by SV-40. (d) The sera of normal chicks effectively activate fibrinolysis with the cell factor from transformed chick cells. In contrast the sera of chicks with RSV tumors do not; these contain an inhibitor of the fibrinolytic activity.

Oncogenesis and the Lucké Virus

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
A. E. Vatter ◽  
J. Zambernard
Keyword(s):  
Rna Viruses ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Oncogenic Viruses ◽  
Dna Viruses ◽  
Leopard Frogs ◽  
Renal Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Induced Tumors ◽  
Northern Leopard Frogs

Oncogenic viruses, like viruses in general, can be divided into two classes, those that contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and those that contain ribonucleic acid (RNA). The RNA viruses have been recovered readily from the tumors which they cause whereas, the DNA-virus induced tumors have not yielded the virus. Since DNA viruses cannot be recovered, the bulk of present day investigations have been concerned with RNA viruses.The Lucké renal adenocarcinoma is a spontaneous tumor which occurs in northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) and has received increased attention in recent years because of its probable viral etiology. This hypothesis was first advanced by Lucké after he observed intranuclear inclusions in some of the tumor cells. Tumors with inclusions were examined at the fine structural level by Fawcett who showed that they contained immature and mature virus˗like particles.The use of this system in the study of oncogenic tumors offers several unique features, the virus has been shown to contain DNA and it can be recovered from the tumor, also, it is temperature sensitive. This latter feature is of importance because the virus can be transformed from a latent to a vegetative state by lowering or elevating the environmental temperature.

Functional domains of the pp60v-src protein as revealed by analysis of temperature-sensitive Rous sarcoma virus mutants

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 1508-1514
Author(s):  
A W Stoker ◽  
P J Enrietto ◽  
J A Wyke
Keyword(s):  
Rous Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Tyrosine Kinase Activity ◽  
Rous Sarcoma ◽  
Heat Labile ◽  
Src Gene ◽  
Sarcoma Virus

Four temperature-sensitive (ts) Rous sarcoma virus src gene mutants with lesions in different parts of the gene represent three classes of alteration in pp60src. These classes are composed of mutants with (i) heat-labile protein kinase activities both in vitro and in vivo (tsLA27 and tsLA29), (ii) heat-labile kinases in vivo but not in vitro (tsLA33), and (iii) neither in vivo nor in vitro heat-labile kinases (tsLA32). The latter class indicates the existence of structural or functional pp60src domains that are required for transformation but do not grossly affect tyrosine kinase activity.

scholarly journals Characterization of the genomic RNA from a Rous sarcoma virus mutant temperature sensitive for cell transformation

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Darlix ◽  
Mireille Levray ◽  
Peter A. Bromley ◽  
Pierre-François Spahr
Keyword(s):  
Rous Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Cell Transformation ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Genomic Rna ◽  
Rous Sarcoma ◽  
Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Virus Mutant

Aggregation properties of chondrocytes infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus

1980 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 407-417
Author(s):  
A. Tanaka ◽  
A. Kaji
Keyword(s):  
Normal Level ◽  
Rous Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Cell Aggregation ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Permissive Temperature ◽  
Sensitive Mutant ◽  
Temperature Sensitive Mutant ◽  
Rous Sarcoma ◽  
Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Level Of Aggregation

Aggregation capacity of chicken embryo chondrocytes decreases when transformed by Rous sarcoma viruses. Cell-to-cell aggregation capacity of chondrocytes infected with a T class temperature-sensitive mutant (tsNY68) (with the temperature-sensitive lesion at the src gene) of Rous sarcoma virus is dependent upon the temperature at which these cells are grown. When grown at the permissive temperature (36 degrees C), where the transforming gene is expressed, aggregation capacity was lower than normal while infected cells grown at the non-permissive temperature (41.5 degrees C) had similar capacity to aggregate to that of normal chondrocytes. However, after a prolonged period of culture (10 days), chondrocytes transformed by wild type SR-RSV regained the normal level of aggregation capacity. Cells transformed by tsNY68 and incubated at the permissive temperature for 10 days also regained the normal level of aggregation capacity. It appears therefore that RSV-transformed chondrocytes first become less adhesive but during long-term cultivation they regain their property to aggregate. The decrease of aggregation capacity due to T class mutants of RSV at 36 degrees C is dependent on constant maintenance of protein synthesis because addition of cycloheximide restored the aggregation capacity even at the permissive temperature.

Half-life of the Rous sarcoma virus transforming protein pp60src and its associated kinase activity

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
A Ziemiecki ◽  
R R Friis ◽  
H Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Rous Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Rabbit Serum ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Gag Proteins ◽  
Rous Sarcoma ◽  
Sarcoma Virus

The half-life of metabolically labeled pp60src of the Prague A strain of Rous sarcoma virus and of several transformation-defective, temperature-sensitive mutants was investigated by pulse-labeling infected cells with [35S]methionine, chasing for different times, and immunoprecipitating pp60src with tumor-bearing rabbit serum. These experiments showed that pp60src has a short half-life of approximately 60 min under normal physiological conditions and that the mutant pp60src proteins have similar half-lives to the wild type, irrespective of whether the cells are kept at the nonpermissive (42 degrees C) or permissive (35 degrees C) temperature. The half-life of the pp60src -associated kinase activity was determined by monitoring its decay by the immunoglobulin G heavy chain assay after the cells had been treated with several inhibitors of protein synthesis. In these experiments the kinase half-life was much longer than expected from the half-life of pp60src. The apparent contradiction between the half-lives of the kinase activity and the [35S]methionine-labeled pp60src protein could be resolved by the observation that treatment of cells with inhibitors of protein synthesis stabilized pp60src, resulting in a greatly extended half-life. Inhibitors of protein synthesis also extended the half-life of the gag precursor polypeptide, Pr76, suggesting that a host factor(s) may be required for the efficient intracellular processing of this polypeptide to the gag proteins.

scholarly journals Tyrosine phosphorylation of a 50K cellular polypeptide associated with the Rous sarcoma virus transforming protein pp60src.

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
T D Gilmore ◽  
K Radke ◽  
G S Martin
Keyword(s):  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Rous Sarcoma Virus ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Protein Kinase Activity ◽  
Rous Sarcoma ◽  
Defective Mutant ◽  
Sarcoma Virus

We have examined the phosphorylation of a 50,000-dalton cellular polypeptide associated with the Rous sarcoma virus (FSV) transforming protein pp60-src. It has been shown that pp60src forms a complex with two cellular polypeptides, an 89,000-dalton heat-shock protein (89K) and a 50,000-dalton phosphoprotein (50K). The pp60src-associated protein kinase activity phosphorylates at tyrosine residues, and the 50K polypeptide present in the complex contains phosphotyrosine and phosphoserine. These observations suggest that the 50K polypeptide may be a substrate for the protein kinase activity of pp60src. To examine this possibility, we isolated the 50K polypeptide by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis from lysates of uninfected or virally infected cells. Tryptic phosphopeptide analysis indicated that the 50K polypeptide isolated by this method was the same polypeptide as that complexed to pp60src. In uninfected cells or cells infected by a transformation-defective mutant, the 50K polypeptide contained phosphoserine but little or no phosphotyrosine. In cells infected by Schmidt-Ruppin or Prague RSV, there was a 40- to 50-fold increase in the quantity of phosphotyrosine in the 50K protein. Thus, the phosphorylation of the 50K polypeptide at tyrosine is dependent on the presence of pp60src. However, the 50K polypeptide isolated from cells infected by temperature-sensitive mutants of RSV was found to be phosphorylated at tyrosine at both permissive and nonpermissive temperatures; this behavior is different from that of other substrates or putative substrates of the pp60src kinase activity. It is possible that the 50K polypeptide is a high-affinity substrate of pp60src.

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