Human T-cell-leukemia virus type I in post-transfusional spastic paraparesis: Complete proviral sequence from uncultured blood cells

Autor: Ali Bazarbachi, Menger Huang, Antoine Gessain, Fortuna Saal, Ali Saib, Jorge Peries, Hugues De The, Francis Galibert
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: International Journal of Cancer. 63:494-499
ISSN: 1097-0215
0020-7136
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910630406
Popis: Human-T-cell-leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) is the causative agent of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) and tropical spastic paraparesis/ HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (TSP/ HAM). The different disease outcome may be attributable to subtle mutations leading to modification of viral tropism or infectivity. Initial attempts found a very high level of sequence conservation among all HTLV-I strains. However, only one complete proviral DNA sequence is reported from a TSP/HAM patient, with a provirus derived from immortalized lymphocytes, which might be expected to be a leukemogenic variant rather than a neutrotropic one. We cloned and sequenced a complete HTLV-I provirus (HTLV-1 boi ) derived from the uncultured lymphocytes of a sub-acute post-transfusional TSP/HAM patient with clonal integration of HTLV-I. HTLV-1 boi proviral genome is 9033 bp long, and its overall genetic organization is similar to that of the prototype HTLV-I(ATK), without major deletions or insertions. No premature termination codon was found in the 4 open reading frames of the pX region. Divergence at the nucleotide level of HTLV-1 Boi from the reported full-length HTLV-I varies from I to 9.4%, and indicates that it corresponds to a cosmopolitan genotype. This study did not identify specific sequences associated with neurotropic strains.
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