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Roles of helper and defective retroviral genomes in murine erythroleukemia: studies of spleen focus-forming virus in the absence of helper.

ABSTRACT

Retroviruses that cause acute oncogenesis are generally complexes of a replication-competent helper virus and a replication-defective component. However, the pure defective components have not been previously available. We prepared the defective spleen focus-forming virus component of Rauscher erythroleukemia virus (R-SFFV) by transfecting a colinear R-SFFV DNA clone into a retroviral packaging cell line (psi 2 cells). The transfected cells released virus (psi 2/SFFV) that was free of helper virus and that induced erythropoietin-dependent erythroid burst formation in bone marrow cultures. When injected into normal adult NIH/Swiss mice in moderate doses, psi 2/SFFV caused a rapid splenic erythroblastosis that regressed. Extensive erythroblastosis could be maintained by repeated injections of psi 2/SFFV into anemic mice or by the addition of a helper virus. We conclude that R-SFFV alone causes proliferation but not immortalization of a population of erythroblasts that is normally replenished from a precursor stem cell pool. Because these precursor cells are inefficiently infected, a single moderate inoculum of psi 2/SFFV causes a wave of erythroblastosis. The properties of the proliferating erythroblasts are substantially determined by the R-SFFV viral component.

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