Cocultivation of spleen cells, lymph node cells, and thymocytes of female Wistar-King-Aptekman rats with short-term cultured male adult T cell leukemia (ATL) cells in the presence of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdUrd) resulted in the establishment of rat lymphoid cell lines, TARS-1, TARL-2, and TART-1. Cytogenetic analysis of the three cell lines showed a female rat karyotype with 42 chromosomes. The surface phenotypes of TARS-1 and TART-1 were those of rat T cells. TARL-2 was only positive for rat Ia and leukocyte common antigens. The cell lines continuously produced a type C retrovirus, human T cell leukemia virus (HTLV) and expressed ATL-associated antigens. TARS-1 and TART-1, but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice. These results strongly indicate that HTLV not only immortalizes, but also transforms rat T cells in vitro. Adult rats immunized with either TARS-1 or TARL-2 produced antibodies specific for HTLV. The biochemical analysis of the antigens that reacted with rat sera revealed that they are the two HTLV-specific polypeptides, p24 and p28.
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April 01 1984
Rat lymphoid cell lines with human T cell leukemia virus production. I. Biological and serological characterization.
M Tateno
N Kondo
T Itoh
T Chubachi
T Togashi
T Yoshiki
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1984) 159 (4): 1105–1116.
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M Tateno, N Kondo, T Itoh, T Chubachi, T Togashi, T Yoshiki; Rat lymphoid cell lines with human T cell leukemia virus production. I. Biological and serological characterization.. J Exp Med 1 April 1984; 159 (4): 1105–1116. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.159.4.1105
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