title: Detection of HTLV-I pX gene by polymerase chain reaction using newly designed primers.
abstract: Newly designed oligonucleotide primers, KI-7 and KI-8 for the human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) pX gene were synthesized using an automated DNA synthesizer. Previously known HTLV-I-infected cell lines, MT-1 and MT-2, were used as positive controls and HTLV-I-uninfected cell lines, Molt-4, SBC-3, ABC-1, and EBC-1, as negative controls. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 17 patients with anti-HTLV-I antibody and 10 healthy individuals without anti-HTLV-I antibody were studied by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with KI-7 and KI-8. All DNA samples from HTLV-I-infected cell lines and 17 patients with anti-HTLV-I antibodies showed positive signals of the HTLV-I pX gene. None of the DNA samples from HTLV-I-uninfected cell lines or 10 healthy individuals showed positive signals. When serially diluted DNA of MT-2 cells were amplified by 35 cycles of PCR, the detection limit of the pX gene by using the primer pairs was DNA from about 1.5 MT-2 cells. Specificity and detectable capacity of primer pairs, KI-7 and KI-8 were confirmed to be enough to use for the diagnosis of HTLV-I infection.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imajo
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shinagawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsubota
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kimura
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002460:Cell Line; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D016355:Genes, pX; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D015368:Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes / Q000235:genetics; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes