Herpesvirus papio: State and properties of intracellular viral DNA in baboon lymphoblastoid cell lines
- 15 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 24 (1), 75-79
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.2910240113
Abstract
Herpesvirus papio (HVP) is an indigenous B‐lymphotropic virus of baboons (Papio sp.) present in latent form in baboon lymphoblastoid cell lines. It shares cross‐reacting viral capsid and early antigens with the Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV), and HVP DNA and EBV DNA show partial sequence homology. EBV‐specific complementary RNA was employed here as a probe to investigate the physical state of the HVP DNA component in baboon lymphoblastoid cells after fractionation of cellular DNA by density gradient centrifugation. Five virus‐producing cultures contained both free and integrated HVP DNA sequences while one non‐producing cell line had two or three viral genome equivalents per cell in an apparently integrated form. Further analysis of one virus‐producing line showed that the free HVP DNA fraction was composed of both linear and circular viral DNA. Contour length measurements of HVP circular DNA molecules by electron microscopy revealed that they were similar in length to the EBV circular DNA present in human lymphoblastoid cells.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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