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. 1976 Apr;73(4):1260–1264. doi: 10.1073/pnas.73.4.1260

Germ line integration and Mendelian transmission of the exogenous Moloney leukemia virus.

R Jaenisch
PMCID: PMC430242  PMID: 1063407

Abstract

Mice were infected with the exogenous Moloney leukemia virus (M-MuLV) at two different stages of development. Either newborn mice (which can be considered as essentially fully differentiated animals) or preimplantation mouse embryos (at the 4-8 cell stage) were infected with M-MuLV. In both cases, animals that had developed an M-MuLV-induced leukemia were obtained. Two lines of evidence indicate that infection of preimplantation embryos, in contrast to infection of newborns, can lead to integration of the virus into the germ line. 1. Viremic males of the first backcross generation (N-1 generation) transmitted the virus to 50% of their offspring (N-2 generation) when mated with uninfected females. Likewise, a 50% transmission was observed from viremic N-2 and N-3 males to the next generations. 2. Molecular hybridization experiments revealed that viremic N-1 and N-2 animals carried one copy of M-MuLV per diploid mouse genome equivalent in all "non-target" organs tested. Together, both experiments indicate that the exogenous M-MuLV can be converted to an endogenous virus after infection of preimplantation embryos. The available evidence suggests that M-MuLV integrated into the germ line at one out of two possible integration sites. Thus, viremic backcross animals are heterozygous for a single Mendelian locus carrying the M-MuLV gene. During leukemogenesis an amplification of the M-MuLV from one copy to a maximum of four copies per diploid mouse genome equivalent takes place in the tumor tissues.

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