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. 1989 Dec;63(12):5201-7.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.63.12.5201-5207.1989.

Different relative expression from two murine leukemia virus long terminal repeats in unintegrated transfected DNA and in integrated retroviral vector proviruses

K Paludan  1 , H Y Dai, M Duch, P Jørgensen, N O Kjeldgaard, F S Pedersen
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Different relative expression from two murine leukemia virus long terminal repeats in unintegrated transfected DNA and in integrated retroviral vector proviruses

K Paludan et al. J Virol. 1989 Dec.

Abstract

Results of transient-expression studies have suggested a correlation between tissue-specific pathogenicity of murine leukemia viruses and the relative transcriptional activities of their long terminal repeats in various cell types. To test whether transient-expression ratios are representative of those of integrated proviruses, we developed a system for generation of retroviral transmission vectors differing only in U3. Vectors with the long terminal repeats of leukemogenic SL3-3 and nonleukemogenic Akv viruses were used for infection of a lymphoid cell line. We then compared expression in infected cells with transient expression after DNA transfection. In contrast to a high SL3-3/Akv reporter gene expression ratio in the transient assays, the ratio in stably infected populations was low. Sets of random cell clones from the two infected populations showed wide variation, with a mean value ratio identical to the population ratio but a considerably higher ratio between lowest values. We suggest that the lower expression levels, like transient expression, reflect inherent enhancer strength and that the higher levels represent chromosomal influence. The different pathogenicity, despite the moderate difference in average expression, may then relate to a different capacity for insertional oncogene activation owing to the different inherent enhancer strengths revealed by the transient-expression assays and the least active proviruses.

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