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Journal of Virology, May 2001, p. 4551-4557, Vol. 75, No. 10
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.10.4551-4557.2001

Detection and Characterization of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus in Porcine Plasma and Porcine Factor VIII

Daniel M. Takefman,1 Susan Wong,1 Thomas Maudru,2 Keith Peden,2 and Carolyn A. Wilson1,*

Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies1 and Division of Viral Products,2 Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland

Received 13 October 2000/Accepted 5 February 2001

The pig genome contains porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) capable of infecting human cells. Detection of infectious retrovirus in porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells and endothelial cells suggested to us that pig plasma is likely to contain PERV. Both PERV env sequences and viral reverse transcriptase (RT) activity were detected in all plasma samples isolated from four NIH minipigs. To detect infectious virus from plasma, we performed a culture assay using three cell lines of feline, swine, and human origin that had previously been shown to be permissive for PERV. Infectious virus was successfully cultured from all four NIH minipig plasmas on the swine cell line ST-IOWA. Using RT-PCR with env-specific primers, we could detect expression of PERV class C envelope in the supernatant of ST-IOWA cells that had been exposed to each pig plasma. We next examined a pig plasma derivative, Hyate:C (porcine factor VIII), and found evidence of PERV particles, since all six lots examined were positive for PERV RNA and RT activity. However, infectious virus could not be detected in clinical lots of Hyate:C, suggesting that the manufacturing process might reduce the load of infectious virus to levels below detectable limits of the assay. Detection of infectious virus in porcine plasma confirms and extends the previous findings that certain porcine cells express PERV when manipulated in vitro and clearly demonstrates that there are porcine cells that express infectious PERV constitutively in vivo.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: CBER, FDA, Building 29B, Room NN11, 8800 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 827-0481. Fax: (301) 827-0449. E-mail: wilsonc{at}cber.fda.gov.

Journal of Virology, May 2001, p. 4551-4557, Vol. 75, No. 10
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.10.4551-4557.2001


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