Genomic presence of recombinant porcine endogenous retrovirus in transmitting miniature swine

The replication of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) in human cell lines suggests a potential infectious risk in xenotransplantation. PERV isolated from human cells following cocultivation with porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells is a recombinant of PERV-A and PERV-C. We describe two diffe...

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Autores principales: Martin, Stanley I, Wilkinson, Robert, Fishman, Jay A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17081300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-91
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Sumario:The replication of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) in human cell lines suggests a potential infectious risk in xenotransplantation. PERV isolated from human cells following cocultivation with porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells is a recombinant of PERV-A and PERV-C. We describe two different recombinant PERV-AC sequences in the cellular DNA of some transmitting miniature swine. This is the first evidence of PERV-AC recombinant virus in porcine genomic DNA that may have resulted from autoinfection following exogenous viral recombination. Infectious risk in xenotransplantation will be defined by the activity of PERV loci in vivo.

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