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J Virol. 1986 October; 60(1): 1-11

Exogenous mouse mammary tumor virus proviral DNA isolated from a kidney adenocarcinoma cell line contains alterations in the U3 region of the long terminal repeat.

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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a B-type retrovirus which induces predominantly mammary carcinomas after a relatively long latency period. To date, very little is known about the reasons for the strict tissue specificity of MMTV. The BALB/cf/Cd strain of mice, which was infected with milk-borne MMTV (C3H), shows a high incidence of kidney adenocarcinomas, and our data suggest that MMTV might be involved in the formation of these tumors. Newly integrated exogenous MMTV proviruses were found in the genome of transplanted tumor cells as well as in the DNA of a cell line derived from one tumor, but not in normal cells of BALB/cf/Cd mice. The MMTV DNA in these tumor cells was transcribed and viral RNA synthesis was strongly stimulated by glucocorticoid hormones. Viral structural polypeptides, comparable in size and antigenicity to MMTV polypeptides of infected mammary tumor cells were synthesized and processed normally in the cell line and were organized correctly into intracytoplasmic particles. Heteroduplex analysis of the molecularly cloned MMTV proviral DNAs of kidney and mammary tumor origin revealed a high degree of homology in the gag, pol, and env genes. A striking difference, however, was observed in the U3 region of the two LTRs that might relate to the different tissue specificity of the two viruses.

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