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J Virol. 1986 July; 59(1): 59-65

The neurovirulent determinants of ts1, a paralytogenic mutant of Moloney murine leukemia virus TB, are localized in at least two functionally distinct regions of the genome.

ABSTRACT

To better understand the molecular mechanism involved in retrovirus ts1-induced paralytic disease in mice, we constructed a panel of recombinant viruses between ts1 and the wild-type viruses Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) and MoMuLV-TB, a strain of MoMuLV. These recombinant viruses were constructed in an attempt to identify the sequence(s) in the genome of ts1 which contains the critical mutation(s) responsible for the neurovirulence of ts1. Two functionally distinct sequences in the genome of ts1 were found to be responsible for its paralytogenic ability. One of these sequences, the 0.77-kilobase-pair XbaI-BamHI (nucleotides 5765 to 6537) fragment which encodes the 5' half of gp70 and 11 base pairs upstream of the env gene coding sequence, determines the inability of ts1 to process Pr80env. The other sequence, the 2.30-kilobase-pair BamHI-PstI (nucleotides 538 to 8264 and 1 to 567) fragment, which comprises nearly two-thirds of the env gene, the long terminal repeat, and the 5' noncoding sequence, determines the enhanced neurotropism of ts1. Replacement of any one of these two regions with the homologous region from either one of the two wild-type viruses resulted in recombinant viruses which either totally failed to induce paralysis or induced a greatly attenuated form of paresis in some of the infected mice.

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