期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1981
卷号：78
期号：12
页码：7778-7782
DOI：10.1073/pnas.78.12.7778
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The presence and location of DNA sequences related to the U3 and U5 portions of the infectious exogenous feline leukemia virus (FeLV) long terminal repeat (LTR) in various cat DNAs have been determined by hybridization experiments. In uninfected cat DNAs, the U5 LTR segment from the Gardner-Arnstein strain B virus is present at approximately 150 copies per cell. This level is approximately 10-fold greater than that of endogenous internal FeLV sequences. The U5 sequences differ in copy number and, to some extent, in location from one animal to another. For any one animal, the sequence organization of the U5 segments is the same among different tissues, showing that the pattern is inherited through the germ line. Most importantly, the viral U3 LTR probe hybridizes only very weakly with uninfected cat DNAs. Both the U3 and the U5 regions of the LTR from the Gardner-Arnstein strain of virus cross-hybridize with DNA derived from four other infectious FeLVs representing A, B, and C subtypes. Thus, the C3 region may be used as a probe for studying the number and location of exogenously acquired FeLV proviruses in infected cat tissues. In some cases exogenously acquired proviruses are present in unique sites in the genome of virus-positive cat lymphosarcomas, indicating a monoclonal origin for the tumor. In other tumors, the proviral sequences are randomly distributed over many sites. Lymphosarcomas of virus-negative cats have no exogenous U3 sequences despite epidemiological evidence of an association of virus-negative leukemia with exposure to FeLV.
