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Journal of Virology, September 1998, p. 7569-7576, Vol. 72, No. 9
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Complete Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV) Provirus Is Conserved in BLV-Infected Cattle throughout the Course of B-Cell Lymphosarcoma Development

Shigeru Tajima,1 Yoji Ikawa,2 and Yoko Aida1,*

Tsukuba Life Science Center, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074,1 and Medical Research Division, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0034,2 Japan

Received 23 April 1998/Accepted 1 June 1998

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) belong to the same subfamily of oncoviruses. Defective HTLV-1 proviral genomes have been found in more than half of all patients with adult T-cell leukemia examined. We have characterized the genomic structure of integrated BLV proviruses in peripheral blood lymphocytes and tumor tissue taken from animals with lymphomas at various stages. Genomic Southern hybridization with SacI, which generates two major fragments of BLV proviral DNA, yielded only bands that corresponded to a full-size provirus in all of 23 cattle at the lymphoma stage and in 7 BLV-infected but healthy cattle. Long PCR with primers located in long terminal repeats clearly demonstrated that almost the complete provirus was retained in all of 27 cattle with lymphomas and in 19 infected but healthy cattle. However, in addition to a PCR product that corresponded to a full-size provirus, a fragment shorter than that of the complete virus was produced in only one of the 27 animals with lymphomas. Moreover, when we performed conventional PCR with a variety of primers that spanned the entire BLV genome to detect even small defects, PCR products were produced that specifically covered the entire BLV genome in all of the 40 BLV-infected cattle tested. Therefore, it appears that at least one copy of the full-length BLV proviral genome was maintained in each animal throughout the course of the disease and, in addition, that either large or small deletions of proviral genomes may be very rare events in BLV-infected cattle.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Tsukuba Life Science Center, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan. Phone: (298) 36-3522. Fax: (298) 36-9050. E-mail: aida{at}rtc.riken.go.jp.

Journal of Virology, September 1998, p. 7569-7576, Vol. 72, No. 9
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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