Complementation rescue of Rous sarcoma virus from transformed mammalian cells by polyethylene glycol-mediated cell fusion.

Foundations in cancer research. The turns of life and science.

This chapter provides a personal insight into the scientific and social atmosphere in former Czechoslovakia. It covers the period of the rise of Hasek's immunologic school and application of immunologic tolerance to Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) heterotransmission. These approaches permitted establishment of a new model of mammalian cells transformed by RSV (virogenic XC cells), where the noninfecti...

Cell Association in Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV) Rescue and Cell Infection.

In my article I tried to present the results of early experiments suggesting a significant role for cell association in Rous sarcoma virus transformation of non-permissive cells and revealing that infectious virus can be efficiently rescued from such cells by their fusion with permissive chicken fibroblasts.

Rous sarcoma virus rescue from 1 rodent cells and the role of viral gene complementation

Complementation studies with Rous sarcoma virus gag and gag-pol polyprotein mutants.

Avian retroviruses (with the notable exception of spleen necrosis virus) express their protease (PR) both in their gag and their gag-pol polyprotein precursors, in contrast to other retroviruses, notably, the mammalian retroviruses, in which PR is encoded in the gag-pol polyprotein or in a separate reading frame as a gag-pro product. The consequence is that the avian PR is expressed in stoichio...

Interaction between normal and transformed bovine fibroblasts in culture. I. Cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus.

Base layers of untransformed normal embryonic lung fibroblasts in different stages of growth were challenged with RSV (Rous sarcoma virus)-transformed bovine fibroblasts. The effect of this admixture on the growth of the RSV-transformed cells was studied. In all cases, the transformed cells proliferated freely, and it is concluded that the normal cells exerted no inhibition on the transformed c...