Method for reproducible large-volume production and purification of Rauscher murine leukemia virus

Appl Environ Microbiol. 1976 Feb;31(2):182-8. doi: 10.1128/aem.31.2.182-188.1976.

Abstract

Rauscher murine leukemia virus was produced in roller-bottle cultures of chronically infected JLS-V9 cells. Virus from this culture fluid was concentrated and purified by two semi-isopycnic bandings in sucrose gradients. Virus material obtained from young, nonconfluent cultures (early-harvest virus) yielded products characteristically containing endogenous ribonucleic acid-dependent deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase with high specific activity (400 to 1,000 pmol of [3H]thymidine 5'-triphosphate incorporated per milligram of protein per hour). Fluids obtained from older confluent cultures (late-harvest virus) yielded products with endogenous ribonucleic acid-dependent deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase with little or no specific activity (200 pmol or less of [3H]thymidine 5'-triphosphate incorporated per milligram of protein per hour), but with higher virus particle counts and greater amounts of protein and gs antigen than the early-harvest products.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

  • Cell Line
  • Cell-Free System
  • RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / metabolism
  • Rauscher Virus / growth & development*
  • Rauscher Virus / immunology
  • Rauscher Virus / isolation & purification
  • Thymine Nucleotides / metabolism
  • Viral Proteins / biosynthesis
  • Virus Cultivation / methods*
  • Virus Replication

Substances

  • Thymine Nucleotides
  • Viral Proteins
  • RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase