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G Marbaix

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PubMed1985

Bovine leukemia virus, a versatile agent with various pathogenic effects in various animal species.

The bovine leukemia virus is the etiological agent of a chronic lymphatic leukemia in cows, sheep, and goats. The same virus seems to induce a kind of wasting disease in experimentally infected rabbits. Antibodies to highly purified bovine leukemia viral Mr 51,000 glycoprotein and Mr 24,000 protein cross-react with human T-lymphotropic virus III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus antigens present in cultured lymphocytes of African patients suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Bovine leukemia virus has many structural and functional characteristics in common with the human T-lymphotropic viruses. The most striking feature of these retroviruses is the existence of a long open reading frame located at the 3' side of the provirus between the right end of the 3' side of env gene and the left end of the long terminal repeat. It is believed that the long open reading frame protein product acts in trans upon a number of genes to account for the biological effects of the virus.

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PubMed1978

Synthesis of carp proinsulin in Xenopus oocytes.

Total poly(A)-containing RNA from Brockmann boides of carp (Cyprinus carpio) directs the synthesis of authentic carp proinsulin in Xenopus oocytes. Neither preproinsulin nor further processing of the proinsulin to insulin can be detected in the oocytes.

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PubMed1977

Frog oocytes synthesize and completely process the precursor polypeptide to virion structural proteins after microinjection of avian myeloblastosis virus RNA.

After microinjection of Xenopus laevis oocytes with RNA from avian myeloblastosis virus, viral structural proteins p27, p19, p15, and p12 are formed by a sequence of posttranslational cleavages of a high-molecular-weight precursor polypeptide. The 60-70S RNA aggregate or its 30-40S RNA subunits obtained by heat or formamide treatment possess the same ability to serve as template in X. laevis oocytes. The processing pattern of virus-specific precursor polypeptides is the same in X. laevis oocytes as in chick embryo fibroblasts infected with avian myeloblastosis virus, but the processing takes place at a much slower rate.

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PubMed1976

Globin messenger RNA from anaemic rabbit spleen. Size of its polyadenylate segment.

The size of the polyadenylate segment of globin messenger RNA isolated from spleens of anaemic rabbits was estimated by comparison of its electrophoretic migration in polyacrylamide gels to that of synthetic poly(A) segments of known lengths. Conditions of enzymic degradation of mRNA with pancreatic ribonuclease and T1 ribonuclease were carefully established in order to ensure complete degradation of the heteropolymeric part of mRNA without affecting the polyadenylate sequence. The poly (A) segments of spleen globin mRNA were found to be 25-90 nucleotides long whilst those of peripheral blood reticulocytes from the same animals were only 10-30 residues long. Since spleen contains young erythroid cells and since anucleated blood reticulocytes constitute a statistically older population of the same cell line, these results support the idea that the poly(A) segment of mRNA shortens when the message ages.

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PubMed1976

Molecular modifications associated with Aging of globin messenger RNA in vitro.

Using polyacrylamide gel elution-electrophoresis in aqueous medium, highly purified rabbit globin mRNA can be fractionated into several populations of molecules differing by their mean poly(A) content. Both alpha and beta globin mRNA are heterogenous with respect to their electrophoretic mobilities. With the conditions used no separation of alpha and beta globin mRNA occurs during electrophoresis. From the specific radioactivity distribution in the different mRNA fractions one can conclude that the polyadenylate sequence at the 3' end of globin mRNA molecules becomes shorter with aging. This shortening occurs on alpha as well as beta, globin mRNAs and the extent of heterogeneity in poly(A) content is similar for both globin mRNAs. Furthermore, using two different methods of mRNA fractionation (polyacrylamide gel elution-electrophoresis and elution of poly (U)-Sepharose-bound mRNA at increasing temperatures) it is shown that old mRNA molecules differ from relatively young messages in their ability to direct cell-free globin synthesis. Modifications reducing template activity in vitro thus seem to take place during globin mRNA aging.

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