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. 1981 Mar;78(3):1401-5.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.78.3.1401.

Biological activity of the spleen focus-forming virus is encoded by a molecularly cloned subgenomic fragment of spleen focus-forming virus DNA

D L Linemeyer, S K Ruscetti, E M Scolnick, L H Evans, P H Duesberg

Biological activity of the spleen focus-forming virus is encoded by a molecularly cloned subgenomic fragment of spleen focus-forming virus DNA

D L Linemeyer et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1981 Mar.

Abstract

A biologically active subgenomic DNA fragment of a polycythemia-inducing strain of the replication-defective spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) has been molecularly cloned. The SFFV DNA fragment includes 2.0 kilobase pairs (kbp) from the 3' end of SFFV, the long terminal repeat sequences of SFFV, and 0.4 kbp from the 5' end of SFFV. The fragment contains the previously described env-related gene of SFFV. All the properties associated with SFFV can be assigned to this SFFV DNA fragment by using a two-stage DNA transfection assay with infectious helper virus DNA. The virus recovered from the transfection assays can induce erythroblastosis, splenic foci, and polycythemia in infected mice. Fibroblast cultures transfected with the SFFV DNA fragment synthesize gp52, the known intracellular product of the env-related gene of SFFV. gp52 can also be detected in spleens from diseased mice infected with the virus recovered in the two-stage transfection. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the env-related gene sequences of SFFV and their product gp52 are required for the initiation of SFFV-induced disease.

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