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Virus Similar to RD114 Virus in Cat Cells

Nature New Biology volume 244, pages 56–59 (1973)Cite this article

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NATURALLY occurring lymphoma and sarcoma of the domestic cat are frequently associated with feline type C viruses1–8 which contain an antigenically identical group-specific (gs-1) antigen4–6 and reverse transcriptase7,8 but reveal similarities and differences between individual members with respect to viral envelope antigens9,10. In our recent attempts to induce an endogenous type C virus from cat cells, we isolated and identified a new virus with properties identical with RD114 virus. The latter virus was originally found in a tissue culture cell line derived from a human rhabdomyosarcoma after one in vivo transplant passage in a cat11. The repeated isolations of this virus from virus-free sublines of the Crandell cat cells provide strong evidence to suggest that the RD114 virus is a representative member of a second group of feline type C viruses which does not share the gs-1 antigen or other known genetic markers of the presently known viruses of the feline leukaemia-sarcoma complex.

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  1. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014

    PADMAN S. SARMA

  2. Microbiological Associates, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014

    JOAN TSENG

  3. Flow Laboratories, Maryland, 20854

    YONG K. LEE & RAYMOND V. GILDEN

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SARMA, P., TSENG, J., LEE, Y. et al. Virus Similar to RD114 Virus in Cat Cells. Nature New Biology 244, 56–59 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio244056a0

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