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In vitro transformation by avian erythroblastosis virus recruits cells of erythroid lineage with varying degree of differentiation
Author(s) -
Therwath Ahmedunny,
Scherrer Klaus
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910290511
Subject(s) - biology , erythroblast , cytoplasm , gene , globin , in vitro , virus , cellular differentiation , phenotype , transformation (genetics) , microbiology and biotechnology , cell culture , virology , genetics , stem cell , haematopoiesis
We have previously shown that AEV infection of leukosis‐free chickens provokes an erythroleukemia in the infected birds, and that the target cell for virus transformation is most likely an early pro‐erythroblast comparable to the BFU‐E. The virus infection correlates with a block in differentiation which was studied at a specific cellular gene level, namely that of the globin genes. In live birds, the viral transformation has been found to affect the transcriptional activity of two out of three adult globin genes and the phenotypic expression of the third. Indeed, the α A gene that is transcribed is silent as well, since its transcription product is fully eliminated in the nucleus following an “abortive processing”. Chick bone marrow cells can also be transformed in vitro by AEV in which case the virus recruits, as targets, cells of the erythroid lineage belonging to a wider spectrum and hence in varying degrees of differentiation. In contrast to the results obtained with in vivo transformed cells, molecular hybridization with globin cDNA probes showed that in the erythroblasts transformed in vitro under tissue culture conditions all the three adult globin genes are transcriptionally active. In fact, low but detectable amounts of globin mRNA sequences are present in both the nuclear and cytoplasmic compartment of the cell prior to exposure to any chemical inducers of red cell differentiation. Judging from our present results, we may propose that AEV transformation in vitro does not shut off but only modulates the already functioning erythroid cell differentiation program.

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