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We here report the results of an investigation of the effect of interferon on the establishment of new infections by a retrovirus. For this study, we used an infectious but replication-incompetent retrovirus carrying a drug-resistance gene and assayed for infectivity by measuring drug-resistant colony formation. Mouse interferon-beta inhibited retroviral infection of mouse CG1 cells in a dose-dependent manner. However, a higher dose of interferon was needed for eliciting the antiretroviral effects than for action against vesicular stomatitis virus. The degree of antiretroviral effect was comparable over at least a 100-fold range of multiplicity of infection and the effect was most pronounced when the cells were continuously treated with interferon before infections and during infection and drug-selection.
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PMID:Interferon-mediated inhibition of retroviral infection: use of a defective retrovirus carrying a drug-resistance gene. 255 10

We have characterized two stable transformed mouse cell lines (CG1 and CTG1) that express either the normal vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (G) or a truncated form of the G protein (TG) that lacks the COOH-terminal anchor sequences and is secreted from the cells. These cell lines were obtained using a hybrid vector consisting of the transforming DNA fragment of bovine papilloma virus linked to a segment of the SV40 expression vector pSV2 containing cloned cDNA encoding either the normal or truncated form of the vesicular stomatitis virus G protein. Using indirect immunofluorescence we have found that greater than 95% of the cells in each line express the G protein(s), although the level of expression within the population is variable. The normal G protein expressed in these cells obtains its complex oligosaccharides in less than 30 min and is transported to the cell surface. In contrast, the TG protein obtains its complex oligosaccharides with a half-time of about 2.5 h. Immunofluorescence data show an apparent concentration of the TG protein in the rough endoplasmic reticulum. These data together suggest that transfer of this anchorless protein from the rough endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus is the rate-limiting step in its secretion. We observed, in addition to normal G protein, two smaller G-related proteins produced in the CG1 cell line. We suggest that these proteins could result from aberrant splicing from sites within the G mRNA sequence to the downstream acceptor in the pSV2 vector.
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PMID:Isolation of stable mouse cell lines that express cell surface and secreted forms of the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein. 641 65