title: In vitro transformation and molecular characterization of Colobus monkey venereal papillomavirus DNA.
abstract: The DNA of a monkey papillomavirus (CgPV-1), originally isolated from a penile lesion on a Colobus monkey was cloned into the EcoRI site of the pUC18 vector and characterized. Using a variety of restriction enzymes a physical map of the DNA was constructed. Cross-hybridization with a variety of animal and human papillomaviruses under high (Tm-22 degrees C) and low (Tm-40 degrees C) stringency conditions indicated various degrees of homology. CgPV-1 showed higher homology with HPVs than it did with any other animal papillomaviruses tested. DNA similarities with the human papillomaviruses HPV-16 and HPV-18 that are frequently associated with cervical cancer, were manifested by extensive cross-hybridization under stringent conditions. Functional alignment of the genomic map of CgPV-1 with that of HPV-16 was carried out by determination of homology between specific restriction fragments of the two viral genomes in cross-hybridization analyses. This alignment was refined by sequencing two regions of approximately 200 bp of the CgPV-1 DNA, and aligning them by computer with their homologous HPV-16 counterparts. CgPV-1 DNA in its pUC18 vector, transformed NIH 3T3 cells with roughly the same efficiency as BPV-1, as determined by the number of transformed foci generated per ug of DNA. The data presented indicate that the state of the CgPV-1 viral DNA in these transformed cells is integrated and partially deleted, not unlike the genomes of HPV-16 and HPV-18 characterized in cell lines derived from cervical cancers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Reszka
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sundberg
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Reichmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D003104:Colobus; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry*; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral