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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-11-28
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Gibbon ape leukemia virus (GaLV) is a highly oncogenic C-type retrovirus capable of inducing myeloid leukemia in juvenile gibbons. GaLV is antigenically most closely related to a new world monkey virus, simian sarcoma associated virus (SSAV), and less to the murine and feline C-type leukemia viruses. To begin to understand how this virus induces leukemia at the molecular level, we have sequenced a GaLV genome and shown that it has a "minimal" genetic complement of 5'R-U5-gag-pol-env-U3-R3'. No additional genes could be identified. Such a genetic structure is identical to those of the murine and feline C-type leukemogenic viruses. Despite its suggested murine origin, the GaLV sequence is as closely related to the murine viruses as it is to the feline retroviruses. Finally the GaLV sequence is indistinguishable from that of the fragments of SSAV available indicating that, in fact, SSAV is of gibbon origin.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0042-6822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
173
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
205-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic organization of gibbon ape leukemia virus.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Biologie et Immunologie Moléculaires des Rétrovirus, INSERM U163, CNRS LA 271, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't