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Neocarzinostatin (NCZ), an acidic polypeptide antibiotic, was given to 47 patients with cancer and leukemia, and tolerance to two schedules, a single dose given as a 2 hour infusion and a continuous infusion over 5 days was investigated. Immediate reactions, including fever, chills, rigor, hypertension and mental confusion, were dose-limiting for the 2 hour infusion schedule, occurring at 3000 U/m2 and higher. Continuous administration for 5 days eliminated the immediate reactions and then hematological toxicity--often prolonged leukopenia and thrombocytopenia--became dose-limiting. Other toxicities of NCZ at both dose schedules included anemia, fever and chills, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, hepatic dysfunction, azotemia, hypophosphatemia, aminoaciduria, stomatitis, phlebitis and/or cellulitis at the venous infusion site and pruritus. Patients with solid tumors who had received little or no prior chemotherapy and had good bone marrow reserve tolerated up to 6000 U/m2/24 hours X 5 days. One patient with previously treated acute myelocytic leukemia was induced into a good partial remission lasting 10 weeks.
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PMID:Phase I study with neocarzinostatin: tolerance to two hour infusion and continuous infusion. 15 43

Oncornaviruses, which contain a virion-associated protein kinase, were found to possess phosphoproteins as virion structural components. One major phosphoprotein common to strains of laboratory and wild mouse oncornaviruses and a strain of feline leukemia virus was shown to be a polypeptide of about 12, 000 mol wt. In addition to this, the Kirsten strain of murine sarcoma virus contained a second major phosphoprotein of about 10, 000 mol wt, and mouse erythroblastosis virus contained a second major phosphoprotein that was either identical to or comigrated with the virion glycoprotein of about 74, 000 mol wt. The major phosphoprotein of RD-114 virus was found to be of about 16, 000 mol wt. The major phosphoamino acid of the 12, 000-mol wt polypeptide of the mouse erythroblastosis virus was identified as phosphoserine, and that of the 16, 000-mol wt polypeptide of the RD-114 virus was identified as phosphothreonine.
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PMID:Phosphoproteins: structural components of oncornaviruses. 16 71

Mouse leukemia L-1210 cells were iodinated with 125I; this permitted the development of a method for the isolation of the plasma membranes. These show a 10- to 16-fold increase in the specific activity of 125I over that of the cell homogenate and a 20-fold increase in the specific activities of 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase; 20-fold increase in the specific activities of 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase; no mitochondrial or microsomal marker enzyme activities were detected. Sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis of the plasma membranes shows approx. 40 peptides with molecular weights ranging from 10 000 to over 200 000; a polypeptide (Mr 50 000) predominates. Of 13 iodinated surface membrane proteins, the major radioactive peptide has a molecular weight of 85 000. The importance of the selection of the appropriate gel system for the analysis of membrane proteins is emphasized.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of the plasma membrane of L-1210 cells. Iodination as a marker for the plasma membrane. 16 26

A review of our current progress in C-type virus vaccine research is presented. This includes the findings of C-type virus or its antigen expressions in every naturally occurring tumor of two strains of "low-incidence" laboratory mice, the BALB/cCr mouse and the NIH Swiss mouse. Vaccine preparation methods are described including the inactivation of C-type virus infectivity with optimal maintenance of the antigen titers of at least two of the polypeptides of the C-type virus, gp69/71 and p30. The cell-mediated immune response of the mouse to C-type virus vaccines, as measured by a footpad assay for delayed-type hypersensitivity and an in vitro lymphocyte transformation assay, is described. Studies with two murine C-type viruses (Rauscher leukemia and Gross leukemia) a simian C-type virus, and an avian C-type virus (avian myeloblastosis virus) showed that the cell-mediated immune response of the animal includes type-specific, group-specific, and interspecies-specific reactivity. The mouse gave a cell-mediated immune response to at least one of the polypeptides of the C-type virus, the gp69/71, whether this polypeptide was presented to the immune system of the mouse as whole virus, Tween-ether-treated virus, or a purified polypeptide. One measure of the effectiveness of the C-type virus vaccines was provided by immunization of the mouse with Rauscher leukemia virus preparation that induced resistance to challenge with both live Rauscher leukemia virus and a naturally occurring BALB/c leukemia virus. Evidence is presented that the C-type virus can act as an effective transplantation antigen in syngeneic tumor cell lines resulting in the immunogenicity and loss of tumorigenicity of these cell lines. An approach to the viral immunoprevention of spontaneously occurring tumors is discussed.
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PMID:An approach to C-type virus immunoprevention of spontaneously occurring tumors in laboratory mice. 17 22

Primary cell cultures of mammary tumors from Rill, GR, DD, BALB/cfC3H, and BALB/c mice were prepared by trypsin-EDTA dissociation of tumors. Cultures from these strains contained predominantly cells of epithelial morphology which formed three-dimensional domelike structures. Cultures from Rill, GR, DD, and BALB/cfC3H tumors produced extra-cellular type-B mouse mammary tumor virus(es) (MuMTV), either in the absence of detectable type-C virus or with less than 1% contamination with type-C virus. This was determined by radioimmunoassays for MuMTV and murine leukemia virus (MuLV) antigens. Only BALB/c cultures produced MuMTV with as much as 3% contaminating MuLV. High levels of MuMTV surface antigen were also found in soluble form in culture supernatants. Virus polypeptide analyses by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels showed that the Rill BALB/cfC3H, DD, and BALB/c viruses all contained polypeptides characteristic of MuMTV. Primary cultures of mammary tumor cells make available a source of purified MuMTV antigens, structural proteins, and nucleic acids for comparative studies of MuMTV from various mouse strains.
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PMID:Characterization of mouse mammary tumor viruses from primary tumor cell cultures.I. Immunologic and structural studies. 17 73

The autologous immune response of AKR/J mice to the structural proteins of murine leukemia virus (MuLV) was examined. Immunoglobulins from the renal glomeruli were chemically eluted, separated from antigens, recovered, and tested for immunological reactivity against MuLV structural proteins. Analyzing immune precipitates obtained after mixing radiolabeled Tween-disrupted MuLV preparations with eluates from AKR/J mice on sodium dodecyl sulfategel electrophoresis, we found evidence of antibodies to the major classes of MuLV structural components: gp70, gp45, p30, and one or more proteins in the 10,000- to 15,000-dalton class. Using rate zonal centrifugation we confirmed that the eluates from AKR/J glomeruli contained antibody(s) that bound specifically to p30. These results indicate that AKR/J mice spontaneously mount immune responses against the major oncornavirus polypeptide antigens.
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PMID:Autologous immune responses to the major oncornavirus polypeptides in unmanipulated AKR/J mice. 17 59

Low molecular weight polypeptides of several mammalian type C RNA tumor viruses were purified by sequential ion exchange chromatography and molecular sizing techniques. These included a polypeptide with a molecular weight of 10,000 to 11,000, p 10, from two type C viruses of mouse origin. Rauscher- and Moloney-murine leukemia virus (MuL virus), and from an infectious type C virus isolate of the woolly monkey. The p12 structural polypeptides of these viruses as well as Rauscher-MuL virus p15 were also purified. By using radioimmunoassays developed for each polypeptide, it was possible to demonstrate that all three low molecular weight polypeptides, p15, p12, and p10, were immunologically unique. Among type C viral structural polypeptides, p10 has been least well characterized immunologically. The results of the present study indicate that p10 is virus-coded and possesses strong group-specific antigenic determinants. By use of appropriate immunoassays, broadly reactive interspecies determinants shared by mammalian type C virus isolates of murine, feline, and primate origin, were also demonstrated. The interspecies antigenic determinants of p10 were shown to be as broadly cross-reactive as those exhibited by the major type C virus structural polypeptide, p30.
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PMID:Structural polypeptides of mammalian type C RNA viruses. Isolation and immunologic characterization of a low molecular weight polypeptide, p10. 18 82

The synthesis and release of feline leukemia virus p30 was studied using a permanently infected feline thymus tumor cell line. Disrupted cells were divided into two subcellular fractions, a cytoplasmic extract (CE) representing cellular material soluble in 0.5% NP-40 and a particulate fraction (PF) insoluble in 0.5% NP-40 but soluble in 0.2% deoxycholate and 0.5% NP-40. Intracellular feline leukemia virus p30 was isolated from infected cells by immune precipitation with antiserum to p30 and subsequent sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the precipitated proteins. Cells labeled for 3 h with [35S]methionine contained equal amounts of p30 in both the CE and the PF. p30 synthesis was estimated to be 0.8% of the total host cell protein synthesis. Immune precipitates from cell pulse labeled for 2.5 min contained a labeled 60,000-dalton polypeptide (Pp60) in the PF and a polypeptide in the CE that comigrated with feline leukemia virus p30 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. When cells were chased after a pulse label, there was a rapid loss of Pp60 in the PF and an accumulation of p30 in the CE within 30 min followed by distribution of p30 in both the PF and the CE. Estimation of intracellular and extracellular p30 levels during a 0.5- to 24-h chase period suggested that most of the newly synthesized p30 was incorporated into extracellular virus. Typtic peptide analysis of labeled Pp60 and p30 demonstrated the presence of 13 of 15 p30 peptides within the Pp60 molecule. The tryptic peptide analysis in concert with the pulse-chase labeling data provides strong evidence that Pp60 is a precursor of p30.
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PMID:Analysis of intracellular feline leukemia virus proteins. I. Identification of a 60,000-dalton precursor of feline leukemia virus p30. 18 22

The polypeptide precursor pr76 to the internal viral group specific (gs) antigen proteins of Rous sarcoma virus, synthesized in a cell-free system of ascites cells, has been processed in vitro into the viral proteins by purified viral protein p15 as well as by disrupted Rous sarcoma virus. Disrupted Rauscher murine leukemia virus does not stimulate the cleavage process in vitro. Autocatalytic cleavage of the polypeptide precursor pr76 or Rous sarcoma virus, which contains the peptide sequence of p15, is not observed.
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PMID:Cleavage of Rous sarcoma viral polypeptide precursor into internal structural proteins in vitro involves viral protein p15. 19 40

The synthesis and processing of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) polypeptides were studied in a chronically infected feline thymus tumor cell line, F-422, which produces the Rickard strain of FeLV. Immune precipitation with antiserum to FeLV p30 and subsequent sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) were used to isolate intracellular FeLV p30 and possible precursor polypeptides. SDS-PAGE of immune precipitates from cells pulse-labeled for 2.5 min with [35S]methionin revealed the presence of a 60,000-dalton precursor polypeptide (Pp60) as well as a 30,000-dalton polypeptide. When cells were grown in the presence of the proline analogue L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid, a 70,000-dalton precursor polypeptide (Pp70) was found in addition to Pp60 after a 2.5-min pulse. The cleavage of Pp60 could be partially inhibited by the general protease inhibitor phenyl methyl sulfonyl fluoride (PMSF). This partial inhibition was found to occur only if PMSF was present during pulse-labeling. Intracellular Pp70 and Pp60 and FeLV virion p70, p30, p15, p11, and p10 were subjected to tryptic peptide analysis. The results of this tryptic peptide analysis demonstrated that intracellular Pp70 and virion p70 were identical and that both contained the tryptic peptides of FeLV p30, p15, p11, and p10. Pp60 contained the tryptic peptides of FeLV P30, P15, and P10, but lacked the tryptic peptides of P11. The results of pactamycin gene ordering experiments indicated that the small structural proteins of FeLV are ordered p11-p15-p10-p30. The data indicate that the small structural proteins of FeLV are synthesized as part of a 70,000-dalton precursor. A cleavage scheme for the generation of FeLV p70, p30, p15, p11, and p10 from precursor polypeptides is proposed.
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PMID:Analysis of intracellular feline leukemia virus proteins II. Generation of feline leukemia virus structural proteins from precursor polypeptides. 19 17


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