title: Infection of haematopoietic stem cells in mice with Friend virus induced erythroleukaemia.
abstract: Animals infected with conventional anaemia (FVA) or polycythemia-inducing (FVP) strains of the Friend virus develop lethal erythroleukaemia. A variant strain, RFV, induces an initially identical disease except that it spontaneously regresses in 50% of infected mice. To determine whether pluripotent stem cells as measured by spleen colony forming units (CFU-s) in leukaemic mice are productively infected with virus and whether their infection influences the outcome of the disease, we tested CFU-s from leukaemic mice for susceptibility to cytotoxicity by monospecific antiviral gp70 antiserum. Spleen CFU-s from progressively leukaemic (FVP, FVA and RFV) mice were productively infected with virus. CFU-s in RFV progressors became infected by 40 days post-virus inoculation. FVA and FVP progressors became infected between 15 and 21 days post virus. Infection of CFU-s was accompanied by an increase in the proportion of replicating (S phase) CFU-s in these populations. Spleen CFU-s from fully regressed RFV regressor mice were uninfected and remained so throughout the course of their disease. Bone marrow CFU-s in both regressors and progressors remained uninfected and were not induced to increased cell cycling.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Marcelletti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Furmanski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D005622:Friend murine leukemia virus / Q000502:physiology; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004915:Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011379:Prognosis; D014779:Virus Replication