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Surface Alterations of Cells Carrying RNA Tumour Virus Genetic Information
Authors:SAMUEL SALZBERG  MAURICE GREEN
Institution:1.Institute for Molecular Virology,St Louis University School of Medicine,St Louis
Abstract:CELLS transformed by the DNA tumour viruses, polyoma virus and SV40, are agglutinated by lectins such as wheat germ agglutinin1, concanavalin A (Con A)2 and soybean agglutinin3. Agglutination in these cases presumably reflects changes in the cell surface related to the transformed properties of the cell; studies with a temperature-dependent mutant of polyoma virus has shown that cell surface changes are controlled by viral genes4. Here we describe experiments in which we investigated the agglutinability of cells transformed by RNA tumour viruses. One recent report had suggested that cells transformed by RNA tumour viruses were not specifically agglutinated5, whereas a second more recent report claimed the specific agglutination of cells transformed by RSV6. We find that transformed rat, mouse and cat cells that replicate the sarcoma-leukaemia virus complex of murine (MSV) and feline (FeSV) origin are strongly agglutinated by Con A, but mouse and human cells that replicate the murine and feline leukaemia virus components alone are not agglutinated. The ability to agglutinate is rapidly acquired by normal mouse cells on infection with the murine sarcoma virus at a rate that parallels virus replication. In contrast to the results obtained with cells producing virus, non-virus-producing transformed hamster and mouse cells that synthesize virus-specific RNA are either not agglutinated or are agglutinated to a lesser degree. These results suggest that the cell surface alterations responsible for agglutination are not necessarily associated with the transformed state of the cell, but rather with the possession of sarcoma virus-specific information.
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