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J Virol. 1974 May; 13(5): 1005-1013
Copyright © 1974 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Synthesis of Avian Oncornavirus DNA in Infected Chicken Cells

M. Ali and M. A. Baluda

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90024

ABSTRACT

The intracellular synthesis and integration of viral DNA (vDNA) into the host cell genome was studied in cultured chicken embryo fibroblasts infected with avian sarcoma or leukemia viruses. The newly synthesized vDNA was detected by hybridization with 70S viral RNA. Extraction of infected cell DNA by the selective procedure of Hirt resulted in the enrichment of newly synthesized vDNA in the low molecular weight supernatant fraction while leaving the bulk of cellular DNA containing integrated vDNA in the high molecular weight pellet fraction. This approach led to detection of intracellular vDNA synthesis within 1 h after infection and to vDNA integration into cellular DNA within 24 h. There was a several-fold increase in the vDNA content of infected cells during the initial phase of virus infection. But only a part of this newly synthesized vDNA appeared to become covalently linked with high molecular weight cellular DNA. Most of the remaining unintegrated vDNA gradually disappeared. The sedimentation profiles of minimally sheared cellular DNA in alkaline sucrose velocity gradients suggest that vDNA is synthesized as free linear molecules of approximately 3 x 106 daltons which subsequently are covalently linked to host cell DNA.

J Virol. 1974 May; 13(5): 1005-1013
Copyright © 1974 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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