Abstract
Rat cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus frequently contain duplications of viral (and sometimes cellular) DNA 5' to the integrated provirus, suggesting that such rearrangements favor provirus expression. In one cell line, A11, the duplication includes the viral src gene and proviral sequences that flank it. We examined three possible roles for this structure. Since the proviral v-src gene transformed recipient cells upon DNA transfer and was the major template for v-src transcription in A11 cells, the presence of v-src in the duplication is presumably not necessary for transformation. Since the size and structure of transcripts from the proviral v-src gene in A11 cells were conventional, the duplication does not facilitate transformation by providing a novel transcriptional strategy. Thus, we favor the concept that the duplication either attenuates a negative effect of flanking elements at the host chromosome integration site or augments the positive regulation of conventional provirus expression or both. Gene transfer and transcription analyses with both genomic and cloned DNA showed that the mechanisms of such regulatory phenomena are complex. Identical sequences in the provirus and the 5' duplication displayed different patterns of expression in A11 cells that could be disrupted in segments of cloned DNA. Among the elements that influenced such expression were sequences from the gag-pol region of the provirus.
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