Deoxyribonucleic Acid Polymerase Activities in Normal and Leukovirus-Infected Chicken Embryo Cells

Chicken embryo cells normally contain, in addition to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-dependent DNA (D-DNA) polymerases, a novel “R-DNA-polymerase” which specifically copies polyriboadenylic acid strands. This R-DNA polymerase cannot copy natural ribonucleic acid or polyribocytidylic acid strands to a significant extent. Infection of cells with the leukovirus RAV-2 leads to the intracellular formation of large amounts of the viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase whose properties differ from the cell R-DNA polymerase. Chicken cells transformed by a Rous sarcoma virus mutant which produce noninfectious alpha-type Rous sarcoma virus (f), a leukovirus known to be deficient in the viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, do not contain detectable viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, whereas the cellular R-DNA polymerase is found in normal amounts. There seems to be no relationship between the cellular R-DNA polymerase and the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase of the avian leukoviruses.

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