Publications
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| bovine papillomavirus transcriptional regulation: localization of the e2-responsive elements of the long control region. | the long control region (lcr) of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 genome can function as a conditional transcriptional enhancer which can be specifically trans-activated by the viral e2 gene product. to precisely map the target(s) of this trans-activation, bal 31 exonuclease was used to generate two overlapping series of deleted dna segments through the lcr. these fragments were assayed for their ability to activate transcription from the enhancer-deleted simian virus 40 early promoter of pa10ca ... | 1987 | 3035214 |
| methods for analyzing bovine papilloma virus-based calmodulin expression vectors. | 1987 | 3035329 | |
| assessment of precancerous lesions of the uterine cervix for evidence of human papillomavirus infection: a histological and immunohistochemical study. | cervical biopsies obtained by colposcopic direction from 358 women were histologically examined for squamous dysplasia (cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia; cin) and human papillomavirus (hpv) infection. of the 358 biopsies, 136 were stained by an immunoperoxidase method using an antiserum against genus-specific (common) antigen of bovine papillomavirus. hpv antigens were detected in 40% of biopsies showing definite histological evidence of hpv effect, and in 7.9% and 2.6% of those with possible ... | 1987 | 3035470 |
| [genetic transformation of somatic cells. xi. the autonomic replication of the cloned dna of the bovine papilloma virus in nih/3t3 mouse fibroblasts and the changes in the growth characteristics of the transformed cells]. | mouse fibroblasts nih 3t3 were transfected with the plasmid pbpv (142-6) containing full genome of bovine papilloma virus 1, and focuses of morphological transformation were selected 2-3 weeks later. dna molecules, containing bpv-1 sequences, were isolated from extrachromosomal fraction of transformed clones suggesting stable autonomous replication of bpv in 3t3 nih cells. in some rescued plasmids deletions spanning e6, 7 genes of bpv were found. it is suggested that these genes are not essentia ... | 1987 | 3035762 |
| bovine papilloma virus plasmids replicate randomly in mouse fibroblasts throughout s phase of the cell cycle. | bovine papilloma virus (bpv) replicates as a multicopy nuclear plasmid in mouse fibroblasts. using fluorescence activated cell sorting and mitotic selection procedures, we show that the replication of bpv occurs throughout s phase of the cell cycle and that replication is confined to s phase. after one round of chromosomal dna replication, almost one quarter of bpv plasmids have replicated more than once, while a similar number of plasmids have not replicated at all. while multiple forms of bpv ... | 1987 | 3036365 |
| a transcriptional repressor encoded by bpv-1 shares a common carboxy-terminal domain with the e2 transactivator. | a negative-acting transcriptional regulatory factor encoded by bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) was identified. this factor inhibits bpv-1-mediated transformation of mouse c127 cells; inhibition is bpv-1-specific and occurs only when the bpv-1 transforming genes are regulated by authentic transcriptional control elements. plasmids expressing the inhibition function also repress e2 transactivation of the bpv-1 e2-dependent enhancer, and this repression is mediated by the same cis-acting eleme ... | 1987 | 3036366 |
| differential promoter utilization by the bovine papillomavirus in transformed cells and productively infected wart tissues. | expression of the 'late' genes of bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) occurs only in the differentiated keratinocytes of the productively infected fibropapilloma. a detailed analysis of viral transcription in the fibropapilloma was performed and compared to bpv-1 specific transcription in transformed c127 cells. a cdna library was constructed from bovine fibropapilloma mrna using the method of okayama and berg. analysis of full length cdnas showed that the majority of viral transcripts in the f ... | 1987 | 3036488 |
| identification of the hpv-16 e6 protein from transformed mouse cells and human cervical carcinoma cell lines. | human cervical carcinoma cell lines that harbor human papillomavirus (hpv) have been reported to retain selectively and express hpv sequences which could encode viral e6 and e7 proteins. the potential importance of hpv e6 to tumors is suggested further by the observation that bovine papillomavirus (bpv) e6 can induce morphologic transformation of mouse cells in vitro. to identify hpv e6 protein, a polypeptide encoded by hpv-16 e6 was produced in a bacterial expression vector and used to raise an ... | 1987 | 3036495 |
| measurement of cell-mediated immunity against bovine papilloma virus by lymphoproliferative reactions. | to study cellular immunity towards bovine papillomavirus (bpv), calves were infected intradermally with bpv-1, and the cellular immune response was measured by the lymphocyte proliferation assay. peripheral blood lymphocytes were obtained which in control experiments were highly reactive towards mitogen stimulation. different batches of bpv-1 were prepared by the use of density gradients. in the first set of experiments, a nonspecific mitogenic effect of the virus preparation was observed. this ... | 1987 | 3036693 |
| purification of papillomavirus structural polypeptides from papillomas by immunoaffinity chromatography. | a broadly cross-reactive monoclonal antibody directed against papillomavirus, coupled to immunoaffinity columns, was used to isolate bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) and human papillomavirus type 1 (hpv-1) structural polypeptides from homogenates of productively infected cells. one of the polypeptides isolated from bovine fibropapillomas appeared to be the bpv-1 major capsid protein since it had a mol. wt. of 54k and was reactive by western blots with papillomavirus genus- and bpv-1 type-spe ... | 1987 | 3037012 |
| expression of human papillomavirus types 6b and 16 l1 open reading frames in escherichia coli: detection of a 56,000-dalton polypeptide containing genus-specific (common) antigens. | the human papillomavirus (hpv) genome contains two large open reading frames (orfs), designated l1 and l2. to characterize the antigenic properties of the l1 orf-encoded proteins, we cloned the l1 orfs of hpv6b and hpv16 in plasmids, and these were expressed in escherichia coli. first, the hpv6b dna, representing 85.2% of the l1 orf, was cloned in puc19 and expressed in e. coli jm83 and rb791 as a 160,000-molecular-weight (160k) fusion protein with e. coli beta-galactosidase (6bl1/beta-gal). sec ... | 1987 | 3037103 |
| human papillomavirus types 6 and 11 mrnas from genital condylomata acuminata. | we have identified and mapped a number of rna species of human papillomavirus types 6 and 11 from condylomata acuminata by the electron microscopic r-loop technique. each of the early (e)- and late (l)-region open reading frames (orfs) deduced from the dna sequences was represented in one or more transcripts. in addition, rna species that could encode the modulator of dna replication and the repressor of transcription, functions recently identified in the genetically similar bovine papillomaviru ... | 1987 | 3037118 |
| enhancers and trans-acting e2 transcriptional factors of papillomaviruses. | the upstream regulatory regions of human papillomavirus (hpv) types 1, 6b, 7, 11, 16, and 18, bovine papillomavirus type 1, and cottontail rabbit papillomavirus were cloned into transcriptional enhancer assay plasmids which carry the simian virus 40 early promoter lacking its own enhancer and the bacterial gene encoding chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (ec 2.3.1.28) (cat). enhancer activity, reflected by cat gene expression, was detected in all of the upstream regulatory regions tested only whe ... | 1987 | 3037119 |
| nucleosomal organization of a bpv minichromosome containing a human h4 histone gene. | to address the relationship between chromatin structure and histone gene expression, the nucleosomal organization of a cell cycle-dependent human h4 histone gene in a bovine papilloma virus (bpv) minichromosome was examined. the nucleosome repeat length of the human h4 histone gene, maintained as a stable episome in a c127 mouse cell line designated i-8, was compared with that of the chromosomal copy of the h4 gene in human (hela) cells. in both cell lines, the h4 histone gene is predominantly e ... | 1987 | 3037307 |
| nucleotides in the polyomavirus enhancer that control viral transcription and dna replication. | the polyomavirus enhancer is required in cis for high-level expression of the viral early region and for replication of the viral genome. we introduced multiple mutations in the enhancer which reduced transcription and dna replication. polyomaviruses with these mutant enhancers formed very small plaques in whole mouse embryo cells. revertants of the viral mutants were isolated and characterized. reversion occurred by any of the following events: restoration of guanosines at nucleotide (nt) 5134 ... | 1987 | 3037332 |
| a promoter with an internal regulatory domain is part of the origin of replication in bpv-1. | extrachromosomal elements that are stably maintained at a constant copy number through cell doublings are a good model system for the study of the regulation of dna replication in higher eukaryotes. previous studies have defined both cis and trans functions required for the regulated plasmid replication of the bovine papilloma virus in stably transformed cells. here, a sequence known to be a cis-dominant element of the replication origin of the plasmid is shown to contain a promoter for transcri ... | 1987 | 3037693 |
| the nucleotide sequence and genome organization of bovine papillomavirus type 4. | the nucleotide sequence of bovine papillomavirus type 4 (bpv-4) was determined. the viral genome is 7261 base pairs long. several overlapping open reading frames (orfs) have been identified both on the basis of amino acid comparison with other papillomaviruses and on their transcriptional pattern. eight early orfs (e1 to 8) were recognized, coding for dna replication and cell transformation functions, and three late orfs (l1 to 3), coding for structural proteins. like the e5 orf of human papillo ... | 1987 | 3039043 |
| identification of proteins encoded by the l1 and l2 open reading frames of human papillomavirus 1a. | the human papillomavirus 1 (hpv-1) virion is composed of two virally encoded proteins: a 57,000-molecular-weight polypeptide (57k polypeptide), which is the product of the l1 open reading frame (orf), and a 78k polypeptide, which is derived from the l2 orf. the 57k (l1) product, which represents the major structural component, appears to be disulfide cross-linked in virus particles. the 78k (l2) protein is a minor component of the virion and does not appear to be disulfide linked either to the l ... | 1987 | 3039170 |
| levels of bovine papillomavirus rna and protein expression correlate with variations in the tumorigenic phenotype of hamster cells. | three independent cell lines were established from primary cultures of lsh hamster embryo cells infected with bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1). although these cell lines differed in their in vitro saturation densities, none was capable of colony formation in soft agar. interestingly, two cell lines (bpv-he1 and bpv-he3) were tumorigenic in nude mice, syngeneic hamsters, and allogeneic hamsters, whereas bpv-he2 was not. all three cell lines contained similar numbers of the bpv-1 genome (appro ... | 1987 | 3039179 |
| contingent replication assay (cra) procedure for rapid isolation of enhancers. | a rapid procedure for the isolation of functional enhancer sequences consists of the construction of a shotgun dna library in sv40-based plasmid shuttle vectors which depend on an enhancer for replication, the replication in monkey (cvi) cells of those vectors into which an enhancer sequence was inserted, the selective cleavage of unreplicated vectors by dpni and the recovery of the replicated vectors by transfection into escherichia coli. we describe conditions for the fusion of protoplasts to ... | 1987 | 3040530 |
| demonstration that a chemically synthesized bpv1 oncoprotein and its c-terminal domain function to induce cellular dna synthesis. | bovine papillomavirus type 1 contains the smallest known oncogene (orf e5), encoding a hydrophobic 44 amino acid protein. to study the biochemical functions of the e5 oncoprotein, we have chemically synthesized it and several deletion mutant peptides. we demonstrate induction of cellular dna synthesis in growth-arrested cells by microinjection of e5 oncoprotein. this activity can be broken down into two functionally distinguishable domains. remarkably, the first domain, which alone is sufficient ... | 1987 | 3677173 |
| stability of a bacterial gene in a bovine papillomavirus-based shuttle vector maintained extrachromosomally in mammalian cells. | in order to analyse the stability of cloned genes in a viral vector we have constructed a shuttle vector based on bovine papillomavirus and the escherichia coli gene lacz. propagation of this vector in mouse c127 cells and analysis of vector sequences in bacteria produced no detectable mutations in the lacz gene in over 6137 clones analysed. this is 100-fold less than the mutation frequency observed when the same and similar target genes are replicated in monkey cos cells using a simian virus 40 ... | 1987 | 3027246 |
| mutational analysis of open reading frame e4 of bovine papillomavirus type 1. | open reading frame (orf) e4 is a 353-base-pair orf of bovine papillomavirus type 1. to determine the biological activities of this orf in mouse c127 cells, we analyzed the effects of two constructed mutations which are predicted to prevent synthesis of orf e4 proteins while leaving the amino acid sequence encoded by the overlapping orf e2 unchanged. neither mutation interfered with the abilities of the mutants to efficiently induce focus formation, induce growth in soft agarose, or transactivate ... | 1987 | 3029420 |
| calmodulin as a regulator of cell growth and gene expression. | 1987 | 2850611 | |
| the e2 "gene" of bovine papillomavirus encodes an enhancer-binding protein. | the e2 early open reading frame (presumably gene) of bovine papillomavirus-1 was fused in frame with the collagen-beta-galactosidase-encoding region of the vector pjg200 and was expressed in and partially purified from escherichia coli. the hybrid protein specifically bound to the enhancer region of bovine papillomavirus at several sites. dnase i-cleavage protection analysis of one such site revealed the protected sequence. a comparison of the protected sequence with the remainder of the dna seq ... | 1987 | 3029771 |
| episomal maintenance of a bovine papilloma virus vector in transgenic mice. | we have used a bovine papillomavirus-based vector to generate transgenic mice. transgenic mice result from either pronuclear or cytoplasmic injections of the vector into fertilized eggs. of 30 mice generated by microinjection, 27 (90%) contained the vector in its episomal form, at less than one copy per cell. this represents a highly efficient means of gene transfer in which the transgene is in a controlled genetic environment. | 1987 | 3031486 |
| human papillomavirus type 17 transcripts expressed in skin carcinoma tissue of a patient with epidermodysplasia verruciformis. | certain types of human papillomavirus (hpv) are involved in skin carcinogenesis in epidermodysplasia verruciformis. however, no gene or gene product of hpv associated with skin carcinogenesis has yet been identified. here, we report hpv-17 transcripts expressed in skin carcinoma tissue of an epidermodysplasia verruciformis patient infected with hpv-17. further, we show that one of these transcripts was localized to a portion of the genome which contains the 3' open reading frames of the early re ... | 1987 | 3032809 |
| transcriptional trans-activation by the human papillomavirus type 16 e2 gene product. | we identified a conditional transcriptional enhancer in the long control region (lcr) of human papillomavirus type 16 (hpv-16). this conditional enhancer requires activation in trans by a product of the viral early-region open reading frames (orfs). primer extension analysis of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase rna isolated from transiently transfected cv-1 cells demonstrated that trans-activation of the hpv-16 lcr enhancer operated at the transcriptional level. mutational analysis of the early ... | 1987 | 3033289 |
| dna-binding activity of papillomavirus proteins. | we demonstrate dna binding by papillomavirus (pv) open reading frame (orf) proteins that correspond to the early transforming and trans-activating (e6 and e2) and late structural regions (l2 and l1) from bovine pv type 1 and human pv types 6b and 16. all pv proteins were synthesized in escherichia coli and had a common 13-amino-acid leader sequence from the expression vector pra10. antibodies have been generated in rabbits against these pv proteins. the pv orf proteins bind double-stranded dna, ... | 1987 | 3033292 |
| trans-activation of an upstream early gene promoter of bovine papilloma virus-1 by a product of the viral e2 gene. | the approximately 1000 nucleotide long upstream regulatory region (urr) of bovine papilloma virus-1 (bpv-1) contains a cis element which responds to trans-activation by a diffusible factor encoded in the viral e2 open reading frame (orf). a series of urr dna fragments have been linked to two heterologous genes, bacterial chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (cat) or herpes simplex virus-1 thymidine kinase (tk), and tested in transient transfection assays for transcription initiating at the authent ... | 1987 | 3034572 |
| characterization of recombinant human granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor produced in mouse cells. | mouse c127i cells were transformed with a chimeric plasmid consisting of bovine papillomavirus dna and human granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (g-csf) cdna placed under the control of the sv40 early promoter. the transformed cells secreted constitutively a high level of human g-csf, 10-20 micrograms/ml in a low-serum medium. the secreted g-csf has been purified to homogeneity by a two-step procedure including gel filtration and hydrophobic column chromatography. the purified recombinant g-cs ... | 1987 | 3034599 |
| bovine papillomavirus e2 trans-activating gene product binds to specific sites in papillomavirus dna. | enhancers are cis-acting elements that activate transcription in higher eukaryotes independently of their position or orientation relative to the promoter that they activate. the mechanisms by which enhancers activate transcription are poorly understood, in part because, with the exception of the glucocorticoid receptor, the proteins that directly interact with enhancers have not been purified, nor have the genes encoding them been cloned. the upstream regulatory region (urr) that immediately pr ... | 1987 | 3025749 |
| promoters and processing sites within the transforming region of bovine papillomavirus type 1. | the mrnas present in bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1)-transformed c127 cells were studied by primer extension. the results show that two internal promoters are present in the e region of bpv-1 in addition to the previously identified promoter at coordinate 1 (h. ahola, a. stenlund, j. moreno-lópez, and u. pettersson, nucleic acids res. 11:2639-2650, 1983). one, located at coordinate 31, generated a set of mrnas with heterogeneous 5' ends, which may encode the major transforming protein of bp ... | 1987 | 2884331 |
| the leeuwenhoek lecture, 1986. environmental carcinogens and papillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of cancer. | in many areas of the world there is a geographically localized high incidence of alimentary and bladder cancer in cattle. studies in western scotland have demonstrated that this phenomenon is associated with ingestion of bracken fern. however, the affected animals and herds were shown also to have an unusually high infection rate of alimentary papillomas caused by a previously unrecognised bovine papillomavirus (bpv) and that these tumors could undergo malignant transformation. long-term field a ... | 1987 | 2888116 |
| structure and genetic expression of papillomaviruses. | this article reviews the physical structures, genetic organization, expression, and regulation of papillomaviruses. in view of the extensive characterization of cellular transformation and viral functions that have been achieved in experimentally infected animals and in transformed cell cultures, the bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) and shope cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (crpv) are compared and contrasted with the human papillomaviruses. | 1987 | 2829072 |
| [new technology of vaccine production--international prospect of the development--subunit vaccine obtained by genetic engineering. b. genetic engineering method using animal cells]. | 1987 | 2834577 | |
| expression of human papillomavirus type 6 e1, e2, l1 and l2 open reading frames in escherichia coli. | open reading frame (orf) fragments (putative gene fragments) from human papillomavirus type 6b (hpv-6b) were inserted into the bacterial expression vector phk413 to provide viral antigenic determinants. approximately 86% of the entire l1 orf, 82% of the e2 orf, and 52% of the l2 orf were expressed in escherichia coli. the e1 orf was cloned as two fragments. the constructions containing e1n (coding for the n-terminal region) and e1c (coding for the c-terminal region) expressed 27% and 16% of the ... | 1987 | 2445631 |
| topographical and conformational epitopes of bovine papillomavirus type 1 defined by monoclonal antibodies. | monoclonal antibodies (mabs) were generated against sodium dodecyl sulfate-disrupted bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1). when screened by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) on intact and disrupted bpv-1, -2, and deer papillomavirus, three patterns of reactivity were defined: reactivity only with intact virus, with both intact and disrupted virus, and only with disrupted virus. on the basis of elisa results, the topographical location and requirement for conformation for immunoreactivity ... | 1987 | 2446044 |
| stable expression of recombinant factor viii molecules using a bovine papillomavirus vector. | the bleeding disorder in hemophilia a results from a deficiency or abnormality of factor viii (fviii), a member of the coagulation cascade. fviii is a large glycoprotein (approximately 350,000 daltons) that is activated by a series of proteolytic cleavages. during activation, a large internal domain (b domain) is removed, resulting in an active complex comprised of the amino and carboxyl subunits of the parental molecule. using a bovine papillomavirus expression vector system, we have establishe ... | 1987 | 2448100 |
| transcriptional regulation of the human papillomavirus-16 e6-e7 promoter by a keratinocyte-dependent enhancer, and by viral e2 trans-activator and repressor gene products: implications for cervical carcinogenesis. | the transcriptional promoter of the candidate e6-e7 transforming gene region of human papillomavirus (hpv)-16 (p97) was active in transiently transfected cervical carcinoma cells when linked to the hsv-1 tk or bacterial cat genes. sequences 5' to p97 contain a short enhancer element responding to cellular factor(s) in uninfected human foreskin keratinocytes and in cervical carcinoma cells, but not in human or animal fibroblasts. the e2 trans-activator products of hpv-16 or of the related bovine ... | 1987 | 2448139 |
| gonadotropin beta subunits determine the rate of assembly and the oligosaccharide processing of hormone dimer in transfected cells. | the glycoprotein hormones lutropin (lh) and chorionic gonadotropin (cg) share a common structure consisting of an identical alpha subunit noncovalently linked to a hormone-specific beta subunit. while lh is produced in the anterior pituitary, cg is synthesized in placenta. to compare the assembly, processing, and secretion of human lh and cg in the same cell type, we have expressed their subunits, individually and together, in mouse c-127 mammary tumor cells. analysis of transfected clones revea ... | 1987 | 2437127 |
| expression of the human papillomavirus type 6b l2 open reading frame in escherichia coli: l2-beta-galactosidase fusion proteins and their antigenic properties. | human papillomavirus (hpv) type 6b genome contains two large open reading frames (orfs), designated l1 and l2, in a putative late region. these orfs are expected to code for viral structural proteins. to examine antigenic properties of a l2 gene product, we constructed two plasmids which contain n-terminal (l2-n) and internal (l2-i) regions of the hpv6b l2 orf and then each region was expressed in escherichia coli as a fusion protein with e. coli beta-galactosidase (beta-gal). both l2-n/beta-gal ... | 1987 | 2437699 |
| detection of dna of human papillomavirus types 6/11 and 16/18 in cell scrapings of the uterine cervix by filter in situ hybridisation. correlation with cytology, colposcopy and histology. | the application of filter in situ hybridisation (fish) to detect the presence of the dna of human papillomavirus genotypes 6/11 and/or 16/18 in cell scrapings of the uterine cervix of 248 women in western australia is described. the results obtained by fish are related to cervical dysplasia as assessed by cytology, colposcopy and histology. the detection of hpv infection was more sensitive and specific by fish than by either histological/cytological evidence of an hpv cytopathic effect (koilocyt ... | 1987 | 2826222 |
| multiple cis-active elements in the long control region of bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1). | a 1.0 kb region of the bpv-1 genome (the long control region, lcr), contains controls for transcription and the origin of replication. transcription directed by the lcr is activated by the viral encoded e2 protein. to define the essential cis acting elements that are required to control transcription we have constructed a series of deletions throughout the lcr. we have identified three important domains in the lcr, two of which respond to e2. we have analysed the ability of small subcloned regio ... | 1987 | 2827118 |
| the bpv1-e2 trans-acting protein can be either an activator or a repressor of the hpv18 regulatory region. | the human papillomavirus 18 (hpv 18) long control region contains promoter and enhancer elements whose activity is restricted to several human cell lines of epithelial origin. this enhancer possesses a considerable constitutive activity which is further stimulated in the presence of the e2 trans-activating protein of bovine papillomavirus 1 (bpv1). surprisingly the same bpv1 protein strongly repressed transcription from the genuine hpv18 enhancer-promoter dna sequences. we suggest that binding o ... | 1987 | 2828029 |
| integration and transcription of human papillomavirus type 6 recombinant dna in mouse cells. | human papillomavirus (hpv) dna is found in nature mostly in an episomal form. however, in permanent cell lines established from cervical carcinomas in which hpv sequences are present, they are usually integrated in the host genome. in vitro studies of hpv have been hampered because of the difficulty of stably maintaining hpv sequences in transfected cells. we have cloned the entire hpv6 genome into three vectors: pml2, a derivative of pbr322 lacking the "poison sequences"; p142-6, a plasmid cont ... | 1987 | 2829459 |
| the bovine papillomavirus genome and its uses as a eukaryotic vector. | 1987 | 2829815 | |
| calmodulin is involved in regulation of cell proliferation. | a chicken calmodulin (cam) gene has been expressed in mouse c127 cells using a bovine papilloma virus (bpv)-based vector (bpv-cm). the vector-borne genes produce a mature mrna of the expected size that is present on cytoplasmic polyribosomes. in clonal cell lines transformed by bpv-cm, expression of the cam gene produced cam levels 2- to 4-fold above those observed in cells transformed by bpv alone. increased intracellular cam caused a reduction of cell cycle length that is solely due to a reduc ... | 1987 | 2832147 |
| cross-hybridization and relationships of various papillomavirus dnas at different degrees of stringency. | cloned dnas of 21 different papillomaviruses which naturally infect mammals and one bird papillomavirus were compared for relative homology by southern blot hybridization. blots were carried out under low (tm-40 degrees), medium (tm-33 degrees), and high (tm-22 degrees) stringency conditions. at higher stringency, human papillomaviruses cross-hybridized with each other reflecting species-specific similarities. bovine papillomavirus types 1, 2, 5, european elk papillomavirus, and deer papillomavi ... | 1987 | 2832347 |
| mouse cell lines that use heat shock promoters to regulate the expression of tissue plasminogen activator. | the promoters from drosophila and human 70,000-dalton heat shock protein (hsp70) genes were linked to human tissue plasminogen activator (tpa) cdna. mouse c127 cells were transformed with bovine papilloma virus (bpv) vectors carrying the hybrid hsp70/tpa genes. stable bpv-transformed cell lines were selected and analyzed for tpa expression before and after heat shock. in most cell lines, there was a low level of tpa production even in the absence of heat shock or other obvious stress. after heat ... | 1987 | 2820678 |
| isolation and characterization of minichromosome particles that contain a glucocorticoid-modulated promoter. | a procedure for the enrichment of minichromosomes, composed of bovine papilloma virus and the long terminal repeat element of the mouse mammary tumor virus (mtv), from isolated nuclei is described. up to 60% of the minichromosomes were extracted as nucleoprotein particles. these particles sediment in sucrose gradients as 160s complexes. hormone-labeled glucocorticoid receptor co-purifies with these complexes in a specific fashion. between four and six molecules of receptor are bound per minichro ... | 1987 | 2821487 |
| optimizing gene expression in bpv-transformed cells: effects of cell type on enhancer/promoter interaction. | we have compared several combinations of enhancers and promoters in expressing the chloramphenicol acetyl transferase gene in transient assays, in mouse c127, the most widely used host cell for the bovine papilloma virus (bpv) expression vector. of the various combinations tested, the unit comprised of the sv40 enhancer and adenovirus type 2 major late promoter (mlp) was the most active in bpv transformed c127 cells. we further demonstrate that untransformed and bpv transformed c127 cells respon ... | 1987 | 2821493 |
| genetic and biochemical definition of the bovine papillomavirus e5 transforming protein. | mutations surrounding the first methionine codon of the e5 transforming gene of bovine papillomavirus (type 1) were analyzed for their effect on cellular transformation and on the synthesis of the 7-kd e5 polypeptide. frameshift mutations upstream of this methionine codon (bp 3879) affect neither transforming activity nor the ability to synthesize full-size e5 protein. in contrast, frameshift mutations distal to this position result in the inhibition of cell transformation and prevent synthesis ... | 1987 | 2822390 |
| skin cancer and papillomaviruses in cattle. | we examined proliferative lesions on the sun-exposed, unpigmented skin of 13 cattle. ages of animals at first examination ranged from 4 to 15 years, and 4 were observed for from one to 3 years, during which time progression to malignancy occurred in 2 of them. early lesions consisted of keratin scales and horns; histology showed underlying acanthosis and hyperkeratosis. advanced lesions were either squamous cell carcinomas or basaloid tumours with sebaceous and/or squamous differentiation; some ... | 1987 | 2822781 |
| reindeer papillomavirus transforming properties correlate with a highly conserved e5 region. | a papillomavirus was isolated from the epithelial layer of a cutaneous fibropapilloma on a swedish reindeer (rangifer tarandus). reindeer papillomavirus (rpv) is morphologically indistinguishable from other papillomaviruses, but the restriction enzyme cleavage pattern of its genome is different. no sequence homology was detected between rpv dna and the dnas of bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) and avian papillomavirus when hybridization was performed under stringent conditions. however, the r ... | 1987 | 2822949 |
| proteins present in bovine papillomavirus particles. | analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and silver staining of heavy full, light full, and empty bovine papillomavirus particles has shown that the major capsid protein l1 is highly modified. besides exhibiting at least 13 isoelectric point variants of approximately the same molecular mass (54 kilodaltons), it is suggested that an additional heavier protein chain (69 kilodaltons) is also derived from l1 by glycosylation. these modifications may stabilize the particle structure. treatment ... | 1987 | 2822965 |
| stimulation of cellular dna synthesis by wild type and mutant bovine papillomavirus dna. | microinjection of recombinant plasmids containing bovine papillomavirus type 1 dna into the nuclei of mouse c127 cells results in the stimulation of cellular dna synthesis. mutations in the viral e2 gene have no apparent effect on this activity even though the same mutations prevent efficient c127 cell focus formation and inhibit transactivation by this gene. | 1987 | 2823817 |
| expression of human uterine tissue-type plasminogen activator in mouse cells using bpv vectors. | human tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-pa) cdna was cloned from uterine tissue and engineered in expression vectors for production in mouse c127 cells. the vectors consisted of the bovine papilloma virus-1 (bpv-1) genome and t-pa transcriptional unit with a mouse metallothionein (mt-1) promoter at the 5' end and mt-1 genomic sequences or sv40 early introns and polyadenylation signals at the 3' end. analysis of the expression vectors transfected into cells revealed that t-pa is expressed 100- ... | 1987 | 2824147 |
| the p39 promoter of minute virus of mice directs high levels of bovine growth hormone gene expression in the bovine papilloma virus shuttle vector. | the promoter of the capsid-coding genes of the autonomous parvovirus minute virus of mice (mvm) is shown to drive high levels of expression of the heterologous bovine growth hormone (bgh) gene in a bovine papilloma virus (bpv)-based shuttle vector. the expression of bgh directed by the mvm p39 promoter was, on average, higher than that obtained from the widely used metallothionein promoter. these results indicate that the mvm-p39/bpv shuttle vector will be generally useful for the high-level exp ... | 1987 | 2824293 |
| human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) enhances bovine papilloma virus (bpv) transformation in vitro. | infection of nih 3t3 cells with a combination of hcmv and bpv resulted in more foci than infection with bpv alone. foci were microscopically apparent at 4 days in the mixed infection and did not appear until 2 days later in the cultures infected with bpv alone. the enhancement was abolished by heat inactivation of the hcmv and also when the hcmv was replaced by a "mock inoculum." southern blot analysis of cellular dna from transformed cells showed a similar amount of extrachromosomal bpv dna in ... | 1987 | 2824682 |
| mutational analysis of the 3' open reading frames and the splice junction at nucleotide 3225 of bovine papillomavirus type 1. | functional analysis of the 3' open reading frames (orfs) of bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) has been complicated by the organization of that part of the genome. a region between nucleotides (nt) 3173 and 3551 contains three overlapping orfs (e2, e3, and e4), as well as a 3' splice junction at nt 3225 which is used by many of the bpv-1 transcripts. to more clearly assign functions to specific orfs in this region, single-base substitution mutations were generated which introduced translationa ... | 1987 | 2824822 |
| messenger rnas from the e1 region of bovine papillomavirus type 1 detected in virus-infected bovine cells. | bovine papillomavirus type 1 dna replicated to a high copy number in virus-infected bovine fibroblasts. infected bovine cells were therefore used as a source of rna for northern blotting analysis to search for viral transcripts hybridizing to the e1 gene region, implicated in viral dna replication. cytoplasmic polyadenylated rna preparations contained at least five different e1-region transcripts, ranging from 1200 to approximately 4500 nucleotides in length. all of these species contained seque ... | 1987 | 2825116 |
| replication of plasmids derived from bovine papilloma virus type 1 and epstein-barr virus in cells in culture. | the major components encoded by bpv-1 and ebv that act in plasmid replication of these viral dnas in latently infected cells are now known. the minimal dna sequences required in cis have been delineated, and the genes whose products are required in trans have been identified. the only required trans-acting gene of ebv, ebna-1, has been shown to bind specifically to the cis-acting element, orip. the current advanced understanding of plasmid replication of mtdna and sv40 dna is likely to aid in th ... | 1987 | 2825737 |
| papillomas and cancer in cattle. | papillomaviruses induce hyperproliferation of epithelial cells of the skin or mucosa (papillomas), and certain types can also infect fibroblasts. they are a very heterogeneous group of viruses, and individual types are associated with specific lesions. the papillomas are mostly benign but some tumours may eventually undergo malignant conversion when genetic or environmental factors are involved. in cattle, bovine papillomavirus type 4 (bpv-4) is the causative agent of papillomas of the alimentar ... | 1987 | 2825987 |
| cis activation of the c-myc gene in bovine papilloma virus type 1/human c-myc hybrid plasmids. | the c-myc gene amplification observed in human tumors is likely to represent an activation mechanism aiming at an increased transcription level. in order to evaluate the biological significance of this amplification in the malignant transformation we have designed an experimental model that could possibly mimic this situation in vitro. we have constructed a series of plasmids which physically link the human c-myc gene to the bovine papilloma virus type 1 genome (bpv1) and therefore should be mai ... | 1988 | 2826197 |
| cloning and characterization of a papillomavirus associated with papillomas and carcinomas in the european harvest mouse (micromys minutus). | individuals in a colony of european harvest mice (micromys minutus) were diagnosed with a variety of skin tumors including papillomas, trichoepitheliomas, and sebaceous carcinomas. papillomavirus group-specific antigens and viruslike particles were detected in the papillomas. a 7.6-kilobase supercoiled circular dna, which was cleaved once by ecori, was visualized in papilloma extracts by low-stringency southern blot hybridization with a bovine papillomavirus type 2 probe. the molecule was cloned ... | 1988 | 2824849 |
| functional mapping of the human papillomavirus type 11 transcriptional enhancer and its interaction with the trans-acting e2 proteins. | the transcriptional enhancer sequences of the papillomaviruses are regulated by trans-acting factors encoded by the viral e2 open reading frame. we have performed detailed functional and physical analyses of the enhancer of the human papillomavirus type 11 (hpv-11). using the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) assay in transiently transfected monkey cv-1 cells, the enhancer region has been localized to a 270-bp tract immediately preceding the e6 open reading frame, and it consists of two fu ... | 1988 | 2833426 |
| study of the e2 gene product of the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus reveals a common mechanism of transactivation among papillomaviruses. | the long control region (lcr) of the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (crpv) harbors a transcriptional promoter which can be transactivated, as reflected by cat gene expression, by cotransfection with plasmids which express the intact e2 open reading frame of crpv, human papillomavirus type 18 (hpv18), and bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv1). the e2 protein of crpv can also transactivate the lcrs of bpv1, hpv1, and hpv18 inserted in front of the cat gene in enhancer or promoter configuration. co ... | 1988 | 2833608 |
| secretion of soluble functional insulin receptors by transfected nih3t3 cells. | in order to determine whether the human insulin receptor ectodomain can be expressed as a functional protein, the coding regions for the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domain of a full-length human insulin receptor cdna were deleted by site-directed mutagenesis, and the resultant construct was inserted into a bovine papilloma virus vector under the control of the mouse metallothionein promoter. after transfection of mouse nih3t3 cells, a cell line secreting an insulin binding protein was isolated ... | 1988 | 2830271 |
| cis-acting negative control of dna replication in eukaryotic cells. | we show that in stable monkey cell lines, the replication of a chimeric sv40-bpv episomal replicon occurs once and only once per cell cycle. the copy number of this episome is stably maintained even when an excess of the limiting initiation factor t antigen is provided. these experiments therefore uncover a cis-acting negative control mechanism whereby replication control is not focused on limiting the activity of positive factors; rather, replication is permitted in unreplicated replicons but i ... | 1988 | 2830984 |
| establishment of mouse cell lines which constitutively secrete large quantities of interleukin 2, 3, 4 or 5, using modified cdna expression vectors. | mouse cell lines of different lineages have been established which constitutively secrete large quantities of recombinant mouse interleukins (mil2, mil3, mil4 or mil5). an existing bovine papilloma virus-based expression vector, pbv-1mtha, was modified to allow transformed x63ag8-653 myeloma cells, nih 3t3 fibroblasts and c127 mammary tumor cells to stably carry multiple copies of the vector, to express the inserted cdna encoding a single interleukin constitutively, and to secrete the interleuki ... | 1988 | 2831066 |
| dna bending is induced in an enhancer by the dna-binding domain of the bovine papillomavirus e2 protein. | the e2 gene of bovine papillomavirus type 1 has been shown to encode a dna-binding protein and to trans-activate the viral enhancer. we have localized the dna-binding domain of the e2 protein to the carboxyl-terminal 126 amino acids of the e2 open reading frame. the dna-binding domain has been expressed in escherichia coli and partially purified. gel retardation and dnase i "footprinting" on the bovine papillomavirus type 1 enhancer identify the sequence motif accn6ggt (in which n = any nucleoti ... | 1988 | 2831538 |
| dna sequence of the hpv-16 e5 orf and the structural conservation of its encoded protein. | infection of cervical epithelium by human papillomavirus type 16 (hpv-16) appears to be closely associated with the development of cervical dysplasia and carcinoma. by inference from genetic and biochemical studies of the bovine papillomavirus, the e5 orf of the human papillomaviruses is anticipated to encode a "transforming" protein. in an effort to compare the e5 orf of hpv-16 with other human papillomaviruses and bovine papillomavirus, we sequenced this region from a new isolate of hpv-16 whi ... | 1988 | 2831662 |
| vaccines for latent viruses. | there are two traditional ways to modify a virus for immunization: (1) kill the virus or (2) use a live, attenuated virus. there are three modern ways to prepare vaccines: (1) extract and purify a part of the virus that is immunogenic, (2) synthesize a polypeptide immunogen piece of the virus, or (3) use recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid or gene splicing to prepare an immunogenic portion of the virus. the last three produce subunit vaccines that can be made to contain no deoxyribonucleic acid. t ... | 1988 | 2828442 |
| papillomavirus in the vapor of carbon dioxide laser-treated verrucae. | vapor produced by the carbon dioxide laser during the vaporization of papillomavirus-infected verrucae was analyzed for viral dna content. two models were used for evaluation: an in vitro cutaneous bovine fibropapilloma and an in vivo human verruca model. four bovine fibropapillomas were exposed to various laser parameters with power densities of 38,200 to 130 w/cm2 and energy fluences of 3820 to 130 j/cm2. the generated vapor was collected in a chamber in line with a vacuum system. hybridizatio ... | 1988 | 2828703 |
| identification of the human papillomavirus e2 protein in genital tract tissues. | a 27-kilodalton protein representing approximately 60% of the e2 open reading frame of human papillomavirus type 6 (hpv-6) was synthesized in a bacterial expression system. affinity-purified polyclonal antibody to this protein detected the probable e2 gene product as a 50-kilodalton protein in most condylomas by western blot (immunoblot) analysis. the e2-positive condylomas were associated with hpv-6, hpv-11, hpv-16, or unidentified hpvs. | 1988 | 2826817 |
| enhanced production of hepatitis b virus surface antigen in mouse c127 cell on a bovine papillomavirus-metallothionein vector. | we have constructed a recombinant plasmid pcps12 containing the hepatitis b viral surface antigen (hbsag) gene linked to the mouse metallothionein promoter on a bpv-pml2 vector. two stable clones s12-8 and s12-2, obtained by transfection of the mouse c127 cells with pcps12 propagated in dam+ dcm+ and dam- dcm- escherichia coli respectively, exhibited different types of response to 5-azacytidine (5-aza-cr) and cadmium (cd) induction. in s12-8, the productivity of hbsag was enhanced by 5-aza-cr or ... | 1988 | 2451524 |
| a transfected alpha-casein minigene bypasses posttranscriptional control by hormones, but retains cell-substratum regulation in mammary epithelial cells. | dna-mediated gene transfection using an alpha-casein minigene cloned into a bovine papilloma virus (bpv)-based neomycin-selectable expression vector has been employed to study the mechanisms by which hormonal and cell-substratum interactions regulate milk protein gene expression. permanently transformed clones and pooled populations of normal midpregnant mouse mammary epithelial cells (comma-d) containing the minigene express an authentic rat alpha-casein mrna, as well as a series of larger cyto ... | 1988 | 2458523 |
| "hit and run" transformation of mouse c127 cells by bovine papillomavirus type 4: the viral dna is required for the initiation but not for maintenance of the transformed phenotype. | morphological transformation of c127 mouse fibroblasts by bovine papillomavirus type 4 (bpv-4) dna depends on additional factors, including cell density, the presence of tpa, the concentration of fetal calf serum, and the physical state of the input dna. low cell density or the presence of tpa allows the achievement of full transformation, suggesting that disturbance of cell-to-cell contact may be necessary for the expression of the malignant phenotype. tpa also induces a burst of viral dna synt ... | 1988 | 2834874 |
| the specific dna recognition sequence of the bovine papillomavirus e2 protein is an e2-dependent enhancer. | the upstream regulatory region (urr) of the bovine papillomavirus (bpv) genome contains an enhancer that is activated by a bpv e2 gene product. we have previously found that a bacterially derived e2 fusion protein specifically interacted with several fragments of urr dna, suggesting that e2 may activate transcription by directly binding to the enhancer. each of the bound fragments contains at least one copy of a conserved motif (accn6ggt). to determine if this motif is required and sufficient fo ... | 1988 | 2835231 |
| the carboxy-terminal domain shared by the bovine papillomavirus e2 transactivator and repressor proteins contains a specific dna binding activity. | the e2 open reading frame of bovine papilloma virus 1 (bpv-1) has been shown to encode both positive and negative acting transcriptional regulatory factors. the dna binding properties of these factors were analysed to investigate the mechanism by which they might regulate viral gene expression. polypeptides corresponding to the full-length e2 product and a shorter protein thought to represent the repressor function were synthesized in vitro by translation of t7 polymerase generated transcripts. ... | 1988 | 2835232 |
| interaction of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 e2 transcriptional control protein with the viral enhancer: purification of the dna-binding domain and analysis of its contact points with dna. | the e2 gene of bovine papillomavirus type 1 positively and negatively regulates the transcriptional enhancer located in the long control region of the viral genome. the dna-binding domain of the e2 gene product was suspected to interact with the dna sequence motif accn6ggt. we have shown that the carboxy-terminal 126 amino acids of the e2 protein constitute the dna-binding domain. in this paper we described the expression of the e2 carboxy terminus in escherichia coli and its subsequent purifica ... | 1988 | 2835497 |
| the product of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 modulator gene (m) is a phosphoprotein. | the m gene of bovine papillomavirus type 1 has been genetically defined as encoding a trans-acting product which negatively regulates bovine papillomavirus type 1 replication and is important for establishment of stable plasmids in transformed cells. the gene for this regulatory protein has been mapped in part to the 5' portion of the largest open reading frame (e1) in the virus. we constructed a trpe-e1 fusion gene and expressed this gene in escherichia coli. rabbits were immunized with purifie ... | 1988 | 2836626 |
| the e5 gene of bovine papillomavirus type 1 is sufficient for complete oncogenic transformation of mouse fibroblasts. | the transforming 69% fragment of the bovine papillomavirus type-1 genome was inserted into a retrovirus vector, which also expresses g418 resistance, and the resulting construct was used for transfection of psi 2 cells. c127 cells infected with virus-containing medium from g418 resistant psi 2 clones were selected for g418 resistance and/or transformation. g418 resistant cells contained invariably a 4.4 kb provirus. the transformed cells, in contrast, contained either a 2.8 kb or a 5.4 kb provir ... | 1988 | 2836779 |
| expression of the e2 open reading frame of papillomaviruses bpv1 and hpv6b in silkworm by a baculovirus vector. | to produce and characterize the nature of the e2 protein of papillomaviruses, we have developed a system to express the dna sequence containing an open reading frame (orf) as a fusion protein in cultured insect cells and silkworms. the dna fragments of the e2 orf predicted from the dna sequence of bovine papillomavirus type 1 and human papillomavirus type 6b were linked to the n-terminal part of polyhedrin gene of the baculovirus bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus (bmnpv) vector. hybrid prot ... | 1988 | 2837019 |
| trans-activation of class ii (i-a alpha) gene by i-a beta gene transfection using bovine papilloma virus as a shuttle vector system. | we have engineered a bovine papilloma virus to carry the class ii mhc (a beta d) gene. the recombinant plasmid was introduced into various mouse b cell hybridomas by co-transfecting with the neomycin-resistance gene. several transfectants which received only the beta-chain gene of i-ad, expressed i-ad proteins on the cell surface. their presence was determined by direct immunofluorescence and by northern blot hybridization as well as rna dot blot hybridization. these i-ad molecules could induce ... | 1988 | 2837510 |
| immunohistochemical identification of human papillomavirus infection in tissues from cervical precancerous and early cancerous lesions among indian women. | paraffin sections of 50 cervical condyloma biopsies from patients with precancerous and early cancerous lesions of the uterine cervix were screened for human papillomavirus (hpv) antigen by peroxidase-antiperoxidase (pap) staining using genus specific anti-bovine papillomavirus serum (rabbit). the intra-nuclear hpv positivity was observed in 20 percent (10/50) of biopsies studied. further, proportionately larger number of cases with moderate dysplasia (cin ii) associated with koilocytotic change ... | 1988 | 2837927 |
| analysis of the l1 gene product of human papillomavirus type 16 by expression in a vaccinia virus recombinant. | the l1 open reading frame of human papillomavirus type 16 (hpv16) has been expressed in vaccinia virus under the control of both the 7.5k early and late promoter, and the 4b major late promoter. antibodies to a beta-galactosidase fusion protein containing a c-terminal portion of the hpv16 l1 gene product were used to compare the levels of l1 expression in the two recombinants, and showed that greater levels of expression were obtained when the gene was placed under the control of the 4b late pro ... | 1988 | 2838573 |
| functional analysis of the individual enhancer core sequences of polyomavirus: cell-specific uncoupling of dna replication from transcription. | polyomavirus (py) enhancer core elements were compared for their ability to activate py early transcription and dna replication in mouse 3t6 cells, lymphoid cell lines, and undifferentiated embryonal carcinoma cells. by examining the pattern of genetic change in a number of cell-specific py variants, we identified subenhancer sequences that may be functionally important for virus replication. four such distinct enhancer consensus sequences were synthesized and designated as the a core (homologou ... | 1988 | 2838739 |
| phenotypic transformation of primary mouse fibroblasts by bpv 1 dna. | cultures of primary fibroblasts of c57bl/6j mice were used as targets for transformation by bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv 1) dna. although no foci were observed, several lines of transformed cells were established by subculturing. these immortalized cell lines had in vitro growth characteristics in high and low serum media and saturation densities typical of transformed cells. karyotype analyses revealed extensive aneuploidic changes. in two of the three cell lines analyzed, viral dna was pr ... | 1988 | 2839131 |
| effect of retinoic acid on bovine papillomavirus (bpv) dna-induced transformation and number of bpv dna copies. | the effect of all-trans-retinoic acid (ra) was examined on (1) transformation induced in c127 cells by transfection with plasmid pdbpv-1 (142-6), which contains dna of bovine papillomavirus (bpv), (2) the capacity of transformed bpv dna-containing clones to form colonies with transformed properties (e.g., piling up into multilayered colonies), and (3) the number of bpv dna copies in transformed cells. at nontoxic doses ranging from 10(-7) to 10(-5) m, ra reduced the frequency of transformed foci ... | 1988 | 2839430 |
| promoters of bovine papillomavirus type 1: in vitro activity and utilization. | five of six bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) promoters which were previously mapped by determining the 5' termini of viral mrnas from bovine fibropapillomas and bpv-1-transformed cells were found to be active under in vitro transcription conditions. transcription initiation at each of these promoters was accurate at the nucleotide level as determined by primer extension analysis. the most active promoter in vitro was p89, a typical rna polymerase ii promoter with both tata and caat boxes. th ... | 1988 | 2839684 |
| regulation of human papillomavirus type 11 enhancer and e6 promoter by activating and repressing proteins from the e2 open reading frame: functional and biochemical studies. | e2-c, a protein consisting mainly of the carboxy-terminal 45% of the human papillomavirus type 11 (hpv-11) e2 protein, was expressed from the rous sarcoma virus long terminal repeat in mammalian cells. it competitively repressed the stimulatory action of the full-length e2 protein on the hpv-11 enhancer located in the upstream regulatory region, as assayed by the expression of a reporter gene from the simian virus 40 (sv40) early promoter in transiently transfected monkey cv-1 cells. a mutation ... | 1988 | 2839716 |
| site-specific dna recombination in mammalian cells by the cre recombinase of bacteriophage p1. | the cre protein encoded by the coliphage p1 is a 38-kda protein that efficiently promotes both intra- and intermolecular synapsis and recombination of dna both in escherichia coli and in vitro. recombination occurs at a specific site, called lox, and does not require any other protein factors. the cre protein is shown here also to be able to cause synapsis of dna and site-specific recombination in a mammalian cell line. a stable mouse cell line was established that expresses the cre protein unde ... | 1988 | 2839833 |
| activation of t cell-derived lymphokine genes in t cells and fibroblasts: effects of human t cell leukemia virus type i p40x protein and bovine papilloma virus encoded e2 protein. | the effects of p40x, a product of an human t cell leukemia virus type i, on the activation of lymphokine genes were examined. the mouse gm-csf and il-3 genes were activated by cotransfection with a px containing plasmid both in jurkat and cv1 cells. mouse gm-csf gene was also activated by phytohaemagglutinin a (pha)/phorbol myristate acetate (pma) or pma/calcium ionophore a23187 stimulation. the 5'-flanking region of the mouse gm-csf gene which is required for activation by px or mitogen was map ... | 1988 | 2840644 |
| bovine papillomavirus mutant temperature sensitive for transformation, replication and transactivation. | the genetic analysis of the papillomaviruses has been hampered by the lack of mutants conditionally defective for viral biological activities. we report here the construction and characterization of a temperature-sensitive papillomavirus mutant. the mutation is predicted to insert the sequence pro-arg-ser-arg into the n-terminal half of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv1) orf e2 protein, the major viral regulatory protein. the cloned mutant viral dna displays temperature-sensitive defects in ... | 1988 | 2841117 |
| stable expression of the hepatitis b virus surface antigen containing pre-s2 protein in mouse cells using a bovine papillomavirus vector. | the large bglii fragment (2.8 kilobases) of hepatitis b virus dna including the transcription unit for the hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) was inserted into a bovine papillomavirus vector containing the neomycin resistance gene. the recombinant dna was transfected into mouse c127 cells. a stable transformed cell line (ms128) secreting a large amount of 22 nm hbsag particles containing pre-s2 protein was established. the secreted hbsag particles had the receptor for polymerized human serum al ... | 1988 | 2841407 |
| evidence for cooperativity between e2 binding sites in e2 trans-regulation of bovine papillomavirus type 1. | the long control region of bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) can function in an orientation- and position-independent manner as an e2-dependent enhancer. dissection of the long control region has revealed two e2-responsive elements, e2re1 and e2re2, which map, respectively, between nucleotides 7611 and 7806 and between nucleotides 7200 and 7386 of the bpv-1 genome. in this study, we have carried out a detailed analysis of e2re1, which has previously been shown to be involved in the regulation ... | 1988 | 2841467 |
| [warts and viruses]. | the discovery that papillomaviruses are correlated with various types of cancer in man has led to increased interest in this virus group. a more detailed study of these viruses has only become possible with the introduction of recombinant dna techniques. the most thoroughly studied representative, the bovine papillomavirus type 1, has now itself become a tool in genetic engineering. | 1988 | 2841612 |
| identification of the bovine papillomavirus l1 gene product using monoclonal antibodies. | monoclonal antibodies (moabs) produced against sds-disrupted bovine papillomavirus type 1 (bpv-1) were used to identify the product of the l1 open reading frame (orf) of bpv-1. moabs were tested in elisa with purified bpv-1 major capsid protein, fusion proteins from two constructions of the bpv-1 l1 orf, and one construction of the l2 orf. all moabs were reactive with purified mcp and both l1 fusion proteins. no moabs were identified that were reactive with the l2 fusion protein. polyclonal anti ... | 1988 | 2841806 |