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Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana,1 Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts2
Received 5 February 2007/ Accepted 5 April 2007
Infection with a recombinant murine-feline gammaretrovirus, MoFe2, or with the parent virus, Moloney murine leukemia virus, caused significant reduction in B-lymphoid differentiation of bone marrow at 2 to 8 weeks postinfection. The suppression was selective, in that myeloid potential was significantly increased by infection. Analysis of cell surface markers and immunoglobulin H gene rearrangements in an in vitro model demonstrated normal B-lymphoid differentiation after infection but significantly reduced viability of differentiating cells. This reduction in viability may confer a selective advantage on undifferentiated lymphoid progenitors in the bone marrow of gammaretrovirus-infected animals and thereby contribute to the establishment of a premalignant state.
Published ahead of print on 11 April 2007.
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