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Query: UMLS:C0679427 (myeloblastosis)
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The secondary structure in mRNA is essential for many processes, but it can present a technical problem in making full-length cDNA with reverse transcriptases. Furthermore, different reverse transcriptases have differing abilities to transcribe through regions with secondary structure, which can alter the products obtained by reverse-transcribing RNA and then PCR-amplifying the product (RT-PCR). We have been interested in studying the posttranscriptional regulation of epidermal growth factor by RT-PCR and have tested the ability of several reverse transcriptases to reverse transcribe the 3'-untranslated region (3'UTR), a region that contains substantial secondary structure. When low levels of either total RNA or poly(A)+ mRNA were used, we found avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (AMV-RT) to be the most robust of all the enzymes tested. Furthermore, contrary to reports that AMV-RT is inhibited by tRNA--which should make it less effective than Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase (MMLV-RT) at reverse-transcribing total RNA--adding tRNA to poly(A)+ RNA actually increased the amount of specific RT-PCR product obtained with AMV-RT while it decreased the amount of product and enhanced mispriming with MMLV-RT. We found that pre-incubation of the oligo(dT) primer with total RNA at elevated temperature prior to reverse transcription improved the efficiency of both native and modified MMLV-RTs. These findings support the concept that secondary structures in RNA differentially affect the abilities of different reverse transcriptases to detect transcript diversity and raise the possibility that such structures could affect quantitation using RT-PCR with internal mRNA standards.
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PMID:Secondary structure in the 3' UTR of EGF and the choice of reverse transcriptases affect the detection of message diversity by RT-PCR. 858 21

Avian leukosis virus (ALV) infection in Taiwan Country chickens (TCCs) was investigated by using gene detection, virus isolation, and sequence analysis. The blood samples of 61 TCC flocks at market ages from a slaughter house were screened for exogenous ALVs using polymerase chain reaction to investigate the ALV infection status. The buffy coats from three breeder and four commercial chicken flocks were cocultured with DF-1 cells to isolate the virus. The full proviral DNA genomes of two ALV isolates were sequenced, analyzed, and compared with reference ALV strains. The gene detection results showed that 60 and 43 of the 61 flocks were infected with subgroup A of ALV (ALV-A) and subgroup J of ALV (ALV-J), respectively. Virus isolation results showed that five ALV-As and two ALV-Js were isolated from those seven TCC flocks. The full sequences of the isolates showed that isolate TW-3577 possessed a myeloblastosis-associated virus 1 gp85 coding region and an ALV-J 3'-untranslated region (3'UTR) and was similar to ordinary ALV-A. However, TW-3593 was unique. The 3'UTR of this isolate displayed high identity to endogenous counterpart sequence and its gp85 was different from all subgroups. This unique ALV is common in Taiwan.
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PMID:Gene detection, virus isolation, and sequence analysis of avian leukosis viruses in Taiwan country chickens. 2468 70