Research Article

Host Range Conversion of the Murine Sarcoma-leukaemia Complex

Journal of General Virology 1973; 19(3):321 · https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-19-3-321

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Abstract

Infection by N- or B-tropic murine sarcoma virus (MSV) pseudotypes in the presence of murine leukaemia virus (MLV) of the opposite tropism to non-permissive cells of the MSV resulted in about a 100- to 1000-fold increase of focus formation in comparison with MSV solitary infection. The culture fluid of such mixedly infected cells contained MSV pseudotypes whose tropism was identical to that of MLV.