Six-NB-tropic murine leukemia viruses derived from a B-tropic virus of BALB/c have altered p30

J Virol. 1977 Jan;21(1):309-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.21.1.309-318.1977.

Abstract

We have examined the electrophoretic mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels of three virion proteins of B-tropic murine leukemia virus from BALB/c and six of its NB-tropic derivatives. The gp70 protein and a 13,000-molecular-weight virion protein tentatively identified as p15 of the NB-tropic viruses migrated with the corresponding B virus proteins. However, the major internal structural protein of type C virions, p30, of all the NB-tropic viruses migrated more rapidly than the p30 of their B virus progenitor. Although this change in p30 raises the possibility that p30 may be involved in determining the N-, B-, or NB-tropism of MuLV's, it is also possible that the change accompanies but does not directly determine the change in tropsim.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Leukemia Virus, Murine / analysis*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C / microbiology
  • Viral Proteins / analysis*

Substances

  • Viral Proteins