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. 1974 Nov;14(5):1199-208.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.14.5.1199-1208.1974.

Expression of the viral thymidine kinase gene in herpes simplex virus-transformed L cells

S S Lin, W Munyon

Expression of the viral thymidine kinase gene in herpes simplex virus-transformed L cells

S S Lin et al. J Virol. 1974 Nov.

Abstract

In these studies, the expression of thymidine kinase (TK) in normal and herpes simplex virus (HSV)-transformed L cells has been compared. In asynchronously dividing cultures of L cells, the TK activity rose and declined rapidly and coordinately with DNA synthesis. When net cell increase stopped, TK activity was at a minimum. In contrast, TK activity of HSV-transformed cells remained at a minimum during rapid DNA synthesis and gradually increased as the rate of DNA synthesis decreased. When net cell increase stopped, TK activity was at a maximum. In synchronous cultures of L cells, TK activity rose and fell coordinately with the rate of DNA synthesis. In synchronous cultures of HSV-transformed cells, no increase in TK activity was observed during the period of rapid DNA synthesis, i.e., the S phase. These findings indicated that the viral TK gene in HSV-transformed cells was not placed under the control of the cellular mechanisms which normally modulate the host cell TK gene. Lytic infection of HSV-transformed cells with a TK(-) mutant of HSV-1 induced a four-to fivefold increase in viral TK. The TK of HSV-1 was induced in the HSV-1-transformed cells and HSV-2 in the HSV-2-transformed cells by this TK(-) mutant. The same infection of normal L cells decreased the cellular TK activity by 80%. This stimulation, rather than inhibition, suggest that the viral gene in HSV-transformed cells retain some of its original viral characteristics.

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