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. 1984 Nov;52(2):356-63.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.52.2.356-363.1984.

Physical mapping of the paralysis-inducing determinant of a wild mouse ecotropic neurotropic retrovirus

L DesGroseillers, M Barrette, P Jolicoeur

Physical mapping of the paralysis-inducing determinant of a wild mouse ecotropic neurotropic retrovirus

L DesGroseillers et al. J Virol. 1984 Nov.

Abstract

We have recently shown that a molecularly cloned ecotropic retrovirus, initially isolated from the brain of a paralyzed wild mouse, retained the ability to induce hind limb paralysis when inoculated into susceptible mice (Jolicoeur et al., J. Virol. 45:1159-1163, 1983). To map the viral DNA sequences encoding the determinant of paralysis, we constructed chimeric viral DNA genomes in vitro between parental cloned infectious viral DNA genomes from this neurotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) and from nonneurotropic amphotropic 4070-A MuLV. Infectious chimeric MuLVs, recovered after microinjection of NIH 3T3 cells with these recombinant DNAs, were inoculated into newborn SIM.S and SWR/J mice to test the paralysis-inducing potential. We found that the 3.9-kilobase-pair SalI-ClaI fragment of the neurotropic MuLV comprising the 3' end of pol and all env sequences was sufficient to confer the paralysis-inducing potential to chimeric viruses. Therefore, this region of the neurotropic MuLV genome most likely harbors the primary determinant of paralysis.

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