Association of endogenous viral loci with genes encoding murine histocompatibility and lymphocyte differentiation antigens

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Aug;80(16):5032-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.16.5032.

Abstract

Several polymorphic DNA restriction endonuclease fragments hybridizing with xenotropic and ecotropic envelope virus probes map adjacent to minor histocompatibility and lymphocyte (H/Ly) antigen-encoding loci. Viral DNA restriction fragments are associated with Ly-17 on chromosome 1, H-30, H-3, and H-13 on chromosome 2, Ly-21 on chromosome 7, H-28 on chromosome 3, and H-38 (chromosomal location as yet undetermined). In each case no recombinant can be found between the H/Ly locus in question and the virus-related restriction fragment, suggesting that linkage is very tight. Although some viral loci map to locations where no H/Ly has yet been mapped, the frequency and tightness of linkage in the seven instances described, coupled with the large number of as yet unmapped H/Ly loci, suggests that the associations found are significant.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Base Sequence
  • Cloning, Molecular*
  • DNA Restriction Enzymes
  • Genes*
  • Genes, Viral*
  • Histocompatibility Antigens / genetics*
  • Leukemia Virus, Murine / genetics*
  • Lymphocytes / immunology*
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex*
  • Mice
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • Species Specificity
  • Thymus Gland / immunology

Substances

  • Histocompatibility Antigens
  • DNA Restriction Enzymes