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The isopycnic, compartmentalized integration of Rous sarcoma virus sequences.

Abstract
Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) can cause tumors in hamsters, which harbor complete or partially deleted RSV sequences, in their genomes. Here we have studied the localization of RSV sequences integrated into the genome of cell lines derived from six independent hamster tumors. We have found that integration occurred in the isochores richest in guanine + cytosine, of the host genome, as it had been previously observed for bovine leukemia and hepatitis B viral sequences. The integration of RSV proviral sequences is, therefore, 'isopycnic' (i.e., it takes place in host genome sequences which compositionally match the viral sequences) and compartmentalized (i.e., it occurs in a small compositional compartment of the host genome). The hamster genome compartment hosting RSV sequences precisely corresponds to a compartment of the human genome which is the most active in both transcription and recombination. The notion of a compartmentalized, isopycnic integration of RSV proviral sequences fits, therefore, with the viral integration into transcriptionally active and recombinogenic regions of the host genome observed by other authors, but is broader, in that it includes, in addition, the requirement for a compositional match between host genome sequences and expressed viral sequences.
AuthorsA Rynditch, F Kadi, J Geryk, S Zoubak, J Svoboda, G Bernardi
JournalGene (Gene) Vol. 106 Issue 2 Pg. 165-72 (Oct 15 1991) ISSN: 0378-1119 [Print] Netherlands
PMID1657723 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Animals
  • Avian Sarcoma Viruses (genetics)
  • Base Composition (genetics)
  • Cell Transformation, Viral (genetics)
  • Centrifugation, Isopycnic
  • Cricetinae
  • Genome
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Proviruses (genetics)
  • Recombination, Genetic (genetics)
  • Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
  • Transcription, Genetic (genetics)
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Virus Integration (genetics)

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