Nucleotide sequences of long terminal repeats of the human endogenous retrovirus (LTR HERV-K) on the short arm of chromosome 7: identification,analysis and evaluation of transcriptional activity

Six clones containing long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences of human endogenous retrovirus of the HERV-K family were found in the YAC library (1200 kb) of the short arm of human chromosome 7. The sequence sizes of the three clones corresponded to the full-length LTR (969 bp). The LTR localization was determined using FISH and verified by comparison with the GenBank database. All three DNA fragments containing solitary LTRs were transcribed in normal germline cells (testicular parenchyma tissue). The differences in the expression of these clones in the germline tumor cells (seminoma) were observed.     

Nucleotide Sequences of Long Terminal Repeats of the Human Endogenous Retroviruses (LTR HERV-K) on the Short Arm of Chromosome 7: Identification,Map Locations,and Transcriptional Activity

Six clones containing long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences of human endogenous retrovirus of the HERV-K family were found in the YAC library (1200 kb) of the short arm of human chromosome 7. The sequence sizes of the three clones corresponded to the full-size LTR (969 bp). The LTR localization was determined using FISH and verified by comparison with the GenBank database. All three DNA fragments containing solitary LTRs were transcribed in normal germline cells (testicular parenchyma tissue). The differences in the expression of these clones in the germline tumor cells (seminoma) were observed.     

选择性捕获禽病原性大肠杆菌体内转录序列

采用选择性捕获转录序列(SCOTS)方法鉴定禽病原性大肠杆菌E037株(血清型O78)在感染SPF鸡过程中的转录表达基因。通过总RNA分离、cDNAs合成、PCR扩增和SCOTS对cDNAs选择和致病性特异转录序列的富集,致病性特异的cDNAs被分离鉴定,共获得31个转录序列(命名为aec),其中分别有2、1、4、14、2和8个aec序列与黏附素、LPS的合成、铁的摄取系统、质粒编码基因、噬菌体编码基因和一些其它功能基因相关;从气囊中分离到16个aec序列,心包膜中分离到15个aec序列;有3种与质粒编码基因相关序列在气囊和心包膜中都被分离到。结果显示APEC致病性特异序列包括黏附素、LPS的合成、铁的转运、质粒编码基因、噬菌体编码基因和一些其它功能基因等。通过SCOTS方法建立了一种体内表达致病性特异基因的方法和APEC在自然宿主感染模型中致病性相关基因的表达谱的筛选方法。     

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.

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.