Genomic complexities of murine leukemia and sarcoma, reticuloendotheliosis, and visna viruses

K. L. Beemon; A. J. Faras; A. T. Haase

doi:10.1128/jvi.17.2.525-537.1976

Genomic complexities of murine leukemia and sarcoma, reticuloendotheliosis, and visna viruses

K. L. Beemon, A. J. Faras, A. T. Haase

University of California at Berkeley

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The genetic complexities of several ribodeoxyviruses were measured by quantitative analysis of unique RNase T₁ resistant oligonucleotides from 60-70S viral RNAs. Moloney murine leukemia virus was found to have an RNA complexity of 3.5x10⁶ daltons, whereas Moloney murine sarcoma virus had a significantly smaller genome size of 2.3x10⁶. Reticuloendotheliosis and visna virus RNAs had complexities of 3.9x10⁶ and 3.5x10⁶, respectively. Analysis of RNase A resistant oligonucleotides of Rous sarcoma virus RNA gave a complexity of 3.6x10⁶, similar to that previously obtained with RNase T₁ resistant oligonucleotides. Since each of these viruses was found to have a unique sequence genomic complexity near the molecular weight of a single 30-40S viral RNA sub unit, it was concluded that ribodeoxyvirus genomes are at least largely polypoid.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	525-537
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Virology
Volume	17
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.17.2.525-537.1976
State	Published - 1976
Externally published	Yes

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