PMID- 503851 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19800128 LR - 20190501 IS - 0305-1048 (Print) IS - 1362-4962 (Electronic) IS - 0305-1048 (Linking) VI - 7 IP - 4 DP - 1979 Oct 25 TI - Sub-genomic RNA in Moloney leukemia virus grown in lymphoid-derived cell lines consists primarily of homologous viral RNA. PG - 1091-108 AB - Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) grown in 2 lymphoid-derived murine cell lines (JLS-V9 and TB) contained 2 size classes of RNA subunits: 2.8 +/- 0.4 x 10(6) (n = 30) and 1.6 +/- 0.1 x 10(6) (n = 15) daltons. Detectable levels of low molecular weight viral RNA (LMW vRNA) were not present in MoMuLV grown in mouse embryo fibroblasts, nor rat cells, nor was it produced by them when they were infected with MoMuLV containing both species of vRNA. DNA probes complementary to both subunits were synthesized separately using purified reverse transcriptase (R.T.) and calf thymus DNA as primer. Polyadenylated LMW vRNA was selected and, by molecular hybridization was found to be completely homologous with the large RNA subunit. This was confirmed using cDNA probes representing defined regions of the genome. The LMW vRNA therefore contains multiple subsets of the viral RNA, which could correspond to multiple deletion mutants possibly generated by an efficient RNA splicing mechanism. In addition, low levels of non-homologous virus-like RNA were detected in MoMuLV grown in TB (2%) AND NIH/3T3 cells (0.4%). FAU - Ball, J K AU - Ball JK FAU - Dekaban, G A AU - Dekaban GA FAU - Loosmore, S M AU - Loosmore SM FAU - Chan, S K AU - Chan SK FAU - McCarter, J A AU - McCarter JA LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Nucleic Acids Res JT - Nucleic acids research JID - 0411011 RN - 0 (Macromolecular Substances) RN - 0 (RNA, Viral) SB - IM MH - Base Sequence MH - Genes, Viral MH - Kinetics MH - Macromolecular Substances MH - Molecular Weight MH - Moloney murine leukemia virus/*analysis MH - Nucleic Acid Hybridization MH - RNA, Viral/*analysis PMC - PMC342285 EDAT- 1979/10/25 00:00 MHDA- 1979/10/25 00:01 CRDT- 1979/10/25 00:00 PHST- 1979/10/25 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1979/10/25 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1979/10/25 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1093/nar/7.4.1091 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nucleic Acids Res. 1979 Oct 25;7(4):1091-108. doi: 10.1093/nar/7.4.1091.