State of the viral DNA in rat cells transformed by polyoma virus. I. Virus rescue and the presence of nonintergrated viral DNA molecules
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 18 (2), 436-444
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.18.2.436-444.1976
Abstract
The interaction of polyoma virus with a continuous line of rat cells was studied. Infection of these cells with polyoma did not cause virus multiplication but induced transformation. Transformed cells did not produce infectious virus, but in all clones tested virus was rescuable upon fusion with permissive mouse cells. Transformed rat cells contained, in addition to integrated viral genomes, 20 to 50 copies of nonintegrated viral DNA equivalents per cell (average). "Free" viral DNA molecules were also found in cells transformed by the ts-a and ts-8 polyoma mutants and kept at 33 C. This was not due to a virus carrier state, since the number of nonintegrated viral DNA molecules was found to be unchanged when cells were grown in the presence of antipolyoma serum. Recloning of the transformed cell lines produced subclones, which also contained free viral DNA. Most of these molecules were supercoiled and were found in the muclei of the transformed cells. The nonintegrated viral DNA is infectious. Its specifici infectivity is, however, about 100-fold lower than that of polyoma DNA extracted from productively infected cells, suggesting that these molecules contain a large proportion of defectives.Keywords
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