Serological survey and virus isolation of simian T‐cell leukemia/T‐lymphotropic virus type I (STLV‐I) in non‐human primates in their native countries
- 15 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 40 (2), 233-239
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.2910400219
Abstract
Infection with a simian retrovirus (STLV-I) closely related to human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) was investigated in non-human primates living in their native countries in Africa and Asia. Serum antibodies cross-reacting with HTLV-I antigens were detected in 85 of 567 non-human primates of 30 species. Seropositive animals were found among African green monkeys, olive baboons, Sykes' monkeys, mandrills and patas monkeys in several countries in Africa, and cynomolgus monkeys, Celebes macaques and siamangs in Indonesia. The frequency of seropositivity was much higher in adult than in young African green monkeys, cynomolgus monkeys and Celebes macaques. STLV-Is were isolated by establishing II lines of virus-producing lymphoid cells in the presence of interleukin-2 from 5 species of seropositive non-human primates, i.e. the African green monkey, Sykes' monkey, Celebes macaque, cynomolgus monkey and siamang. All these cell lines had T-cell markers and Tac antigen, and the cell lines from the African green monkey and Sykes' monkeys were Leu2a+ while those from other species were Leu3a+. These cell lines expressed viral antigens reacting with human sera from adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) patients and monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against p19 and p24 of HTLV-I core proteins, and produced virus particles having RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity. Cellular DNAs from these cell lines contained provirus sequences homologous to HTLV-I, shown by Southern blot hybridization. The restriction patterns of these provirus genomes were different from those of HTLV-I and were also dissimilar in the different species.Keywords
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