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J Virol. 1993 April; 67(4): 2097-2102

Retroviral infection and expression of cationic amino acid transporters in rodent hepatocytes.

Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

ABSTRACT

The susceptibility of rodent hepatocytes to infection by mouse type C retroviruses was examined in vivo and in vitro and compared with the expression of two membrane proteins that function as transporters for the cationic amino acids CAT-1 and CAT-2. CAT-1 expression in rodents determines susceptibility to ecotropic retrovirus infection by serving as the virus receptor. Recently, it has been suggested that CAT-2 may be a receptor for amphotropic murine leukemia virus. In the present study, CAT-1 expression was observed in Hepa1, a cell line derived from a murine hepatoma, and in rat hepatocytes propagated on collagen monolayers in vitro but not in intact or regenerating rat liver in vivo. The expression of CAT-1 correlated with susceptibility to infection by an ecotropic retrovirus encoding beta-galactosidase. CAT-2 expression was observed in hepatocytes in vitro and in vivo, consistent with reports of infection of regenerating and cultured hepatocytes by amphotropic retroviruses. However, introduction of murine CAT-2 into nonpermissive Chinese hamster cells was not sufficient to confer susceptibility to amphotropic retrovirus infection, using a protocol that could easily demonstrate CAT-1-dependent infection by an ecotropic virus. Our data establish CAT-1 as a major determinant of ecotropic retrovirus infection in rodent hepatocytes and suggest that CAT-2 is not a receptor for viruses in the amphotropic subgroup.

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