Lack of Erythroid Characteristics in la-Positive Leukemia Cell Lines Induced by Friend Murine Leukemia Virus: Brief Communication 2

1978 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Chesebro ◽  
Kathy Wehrly ◽  
David Housman
1981 ◽  
Vol 154 (6) ◽  
pp. 1795-1810 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Plata ◽  
A F Tilkin ◽  
J P Lévy ◽  
F Lilly

Comparative quantitative experiments were designed to study the expression of H-2Kd and H-2Dd antigens on three different leukemia cell lines induced by Gross murine leukemia virus (MuLV)in BALB/c (H-2d) mice. The H-2 restriction patterns of syngeneic cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL) directed against Gross MuLV-induced tumors were correlated with these quantitations of H-2Kd and H-2Dd antigens, Our results obtained by quantitative absorption of monospecific antisera indicated that the three BALB/c tumor cell lines expressed different amounts of H-2Kd and H-2Dd antigens, with H-2Dd antigen showing the greatest variability in expression because it ranged from barely detectable levels to one-eighth the amount of H-2Dd antigen expressed on normal BALB/c spleen cells. The H-2 restriction patterns of Gross MuLV-specific CTL were directly affected by these quantitative modulations in the expression of H-2Kd and H-2Dd antigens, as revealed by three independent approaches: (a) inhibition of CTL activity by monospecific anti-H-2 sera in the absence of complement; (b)competitive inhibition of CTL-mediated cytotoxicity by the addition of excess tumor cells into the reaction mixture; and (c) analysis of CTL specificities using cloned CTL populations. Our results thus indicate that H-2 restriction of tumor-specific CTL activity can be directed at the target cell level by variations in the expression of H-2 antigens.


2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (20) ◽  
pp. 12969-12978 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Bruce ◽  
Kenneth A. Bradley ◽  
Paul Ahlquist ◽  
John A. T. Young

ABSTRACT In order to identify cellular proteins required for early stages of retroviral replication, a high volume screening with mammalian somatic cells was performed. Ten pools of chemically mutagenized Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells were challenged with a murine leukemia virus (MLV) vector pseudotyped with the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSV-G), and cells that failed to be transduced were enriched by cell sorting. Each pool yielded a clonally derived cell line with a 5-fold or greater resistance to virus infection, and five cell lines exhibited a >50-fold resistance. These five cell lines were efficiently infected by a human immunodeficiency virus vector pseudotyped with VSV-G. When engineered to express the TVA receptor for subgroup A avian sarcoma and leukosis virus (ASLV-A), the five cell lines were resistant to infection with a MLV vector pseudotyped with the ASLV-A envelope protein but were fully susceptible to infection with an ASLV-A vector. Thus, the defect in these cells resides after virus-cell membrane fusion and, unlike those in other mutant cell lines that have been described, is specific for the MLV core. To identify the specific stages of MLV infection that are impaired in the resistant cell lines, real-time quantitative PCR analyses were employed and two phenotypic groups were identified. Viral infection of three cell lines was restricted before reverse transcription; in the other two cell lines, it was blocked after reverse transcription, nuclear localization, and two-long terminal repeat circle formation but before integration. These data provide genetic evidence that at least two distinct intracellular gene products are required specifically for MLV infection. These cell lines are important tools for the biochemical and genetic analysis of early stages in retrovirus infection.


1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 2068-2079
Author(s):  
B A Campbell ◽  
L P Villarreal

Heterologous enhancer recombinants and deletions of the polyomavirus (Py) noncoding region were constructed and analyzed for tissue specificity of DNA replication and transcription in a number of lymphoid and other cell lines. The simian virus 40 72-base-pair repeat, mouse immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer, and Moloney murine leukemia virus enhancer were inserted into the PvuII-D locus (nucleotides 5128 through 5265) of Py. The ability of these recombinants and the parental PvuII-D deletion mutant to replicate in permissive 3T6 cells and MOP-6 cells as well as in nonpermissive mouse B lymphoid, T lymphoid, mastocyte, and embryonal carcinoma cells was determined. Wild-type Py DNA was not permissive for replication in most lymphoid cell lines, except one hybridoma line. Simply deleting the Py PvuII-D region, however, gave Py an expanded host range, allowing high-level replication in some T lymphoid and mastocytoma cell lines, indicating that this element can be a tissue-specific negative as well as positive element. Substitution of the murine leukemia virus enhancer for Py PvuII-D yielded a Py genome which retained the ability to replicate in 3T6 cells but also replicated well in B lymphoid cells. Substitution with the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer allowed replication in B lymphoid cells but interfered with replication in 3T6 cells and mastocytomas. Surprisingly, substitution with the simian virus 40 72-base-pair enhancer repeat gave a recombinant which would not replicate in any cell line tried, including MOP-6 cells, even though other recombinants with this enhancer would replicate. Thus, we observed both cooperation and interference in these combinations between enhancer components and the Py genome and that these combined activities were cell specific. These results are presented as evidence that there may be a positional dependence, or syntax, for the recognition of genetic elements controlling Py tissue specificity.


1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 1675-1679
Author(s):  
P Jolicoeur ◽  
E Rassart ◽  
P Sankar-Mistry

Using the Southern procedure, we have studied the presence of ecotropic-specific murine leukemia viral sequences in genomic DNA isolated from primary X-ray-induced thymomas, from lymphoid cell lines established from them, or from secondary tumors passaged in vivo. We found that primary radiation-induced thymomas and infiltrated spleens do not harbor newly acquired ecotropic provirus. However, additional ecotropic proviruses (which appear recombinant in the gagpol region) could be detected in most of the tumorigenic cell lines established in vitro from them and in tumors arising from subcutaneous transplantation of the primary thymomas. These results suggest that primary radiation-induced thymomas may not be clonal. They also indicate a strong correlation between the presence of ecotropic recombinant proviruses in the genome and the growth ability, both in vitro and in vivo, of specific cells within these thymomas, suggesting a possible mitogenic function for murine leukemia virus.


Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (10) ◽  
pp. 3385-3391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane Barrette ◽  
Janet L. Douglas ◽  
Nancy E. Seidel ◽  
David M. Bodine

Abstract The low levels of transduction of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) vectors have been an obstacle to gene therapy for hematopoietic diseases. It has been demonstrated that lentivirus vectors are more efficient than MLV vectors at transducing nondividing cell lines as well as human CD34+ cells and severe combined immunodeficiency disease repopulating cells. We compared transduction of cell lines and Lin− bone marrow cells, using a vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV-G)-pseudotyped lentivirus or MLV vectors carrying a green fluorescent protein marker gene. As predicted, the lentivirus vector was more efficient at transducing mouse and human growth-inhibited cell lines. The transduction of mouse HSC by lentivirus vectors was compared directly to MLV vectors in a co-transduction assay. In this assay, transduction by ecotropic MLV is a positive internal control for downstream steps in retrovirus transduction, including cell division. Both the VSV-G lentivirus and MLV vectors transduced mouse HSCs maintained in cytokine-free medium at very low frequency, as did the ecotropic control. The lentivirus vector and the MLV vector were equally efficient at transducing bone marrow HSCs cultured in interleukin 3 (IL-3), IL-6, and stem cell factor for 96 hours. In conclusion, although lentivirus vectors are able to transduce growth-inhibited cell lines, the cell cycle status of HSCs render them resistant to lentivirus-mediated transduction, and it is hypothesized that entry into cycle, not necessarily division, may be a requirement for efficient lentivirus-mediated transduction.


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