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The AKR mouse has a high titer of murine leukemia virus early in life, and virus-negative cells derived from embryos of this mouse strain can be activated to yield murine leukemia virus by treatment with 5-iododeoxyuridine. In contrast to this high-virus strain, the NIH Swiss mouse has a low incidence of leukemia and no murine leukemia virus has been isolated from it (virus-negative). We have investigated this difference between AKR and NIH mice by examining the sequences specific for murine leukemia virus in nucleic acids of these mice. A single-stranded viral-DNA probe synthesized in vitro using murine-leukemia-virus from the AKR mouse contains at least 87% of the sequences present in the 70S viral RNA; most of these sequences are in proportions similar to their content in the 70S RNA. Using this probe in nucleic acid hybridization experiments, we have shown that NIH-mouse-cell DNA and AKR-mouse-cell DNA differ with respect to sequences specific for AKR murine-leukemia-virus: NIH-mouse-cell DNA lacks some of the virus-specific sequences present in AKR-mouse-cell DNA, and there are two distinct sets of virus-specific sequences in AKR-mouse-cell DNA, whereas there is only one set in NIH-mouse-cell DNA.RNA from virus-negative AKR-mouse cells grown in tissue culture contains some, but not all, virus-specific RNA sequences; however, within 48 hr after initiating treatment of these cells with 5-iododeoxyuridine, the complete viral genome is represented in cellular RNA.
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