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THE mode of replication of RNA or RNA-containing tumour viruses is not understood. The recent studies on Rous sarcoma and other RNA-containing oncogenic viruses suggest that the replicative cycle of the RNA of these viruses might not be associated with ribonuclease-resistant structures (double stranded RNAs), but might involve the synthesis of a DNA intermediate specific to viral RNA1–3. Two groups of workers, however, presented evidence for the presence of a double stranded RNA in 78 Al cell line of rat embryo fibroblasts which had been transformed and chronically infected with the murine sarcoma-leukaemia virus complex (MSV-MLV)4,5, and it was suggested that the mode of replication of oncogenic viral RNAs was the same as that of non-oncogenic viral RNAs4. This apparent discrepancy prompted me to look for ribonuclease-resistant RNA structures in the chick embryo cells transformed by Schmidt-Ruppin Rous sarcoma virus (SR-RSV).
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REDDI, K. Nature of Ribonuclease-resistant Nucleic Acid of Chick Embryo Cells transformed by Schmidt–Ruppin Strain of Rous Sarcoma Virus. Nature New Biology 229, 25–27 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio229025a0
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