Molecular cloning of osteoma-inducing replication-competent murine leukemia viruses from the RFB osteoma virus stock. |
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| Authors: | L Pedersen W Behnisch J Schmidt A Luz F S Pedersen V Erfle and P G Strauss |
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| Institution: | Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. |
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| Abstract: | We report the molecular cloning of two replication-competent osteoma-inducing murine leukemia viruses from the RFB osteoma virus stock (M. P. Finkel, C. A. Reilly, Jr., B. O. Biskis, and I. L. Greco, p. 353-366, in C. H. G. Price and F. G. M. Ross, ed., Bone--Certain Aspects of Neoplasia, 1973). Like the original RFB osteoma virus stock, viruses derived from the molecular RFB clones induced multiple osteomas in mice of the CBA/Ca strain. The cloned RFB viruses were indistinguishable by restriction enzyme analysis and by nucleotide sequence analysis of their long-terminal-repeat regions and showed close relatedness to the Akv murine leukemia virus. |
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