State of viral DNA in BK virus-transformed rabbit cells |
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Authors: | N Chenciner M P Grossi G Meneguzzi A Corallini R Manservigi G Barbanti-Brodano G Milanesi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Centre de Biochimie, Faculté des Sciences, 06034 Nice, France;2. Istituto di Microbiologia, Università di Ferrara, Via L. Borsari, 46, 44100 Ferrara, Italy;3. Laboratorio di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica CNR, Via S. Epifanio, 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy |
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Abstract: | Semipermissive rabbit liver, brain, and kidney cells were transformed by BK virus (BKV). All cells of the three resulting cell lines produced BKV T antigen. Viral DNA was detected by DNA-DNA reassociation kinetics and by blot-transfer hybridization. Hybridization patterns were different for the three lines, indicating a different mode of integration for each line. In addition to integrated viral DNA, two of the lines contained also free viral DNA sequences, which in one case were defective viral genomes. Absence or splitting of particular regions of the viral genome was not a necessary condition for the maintenance of the transformed state. HindIII-generated segment A, which contains all the sequences coding for the late viral proteins, was absent (in an intact form) in the only line from which virus could not be rescued. |
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