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Log phase BG-1 cells were exposed to supernatant containing either the LXSN control retrovirus or retroviruses containing the antisense BRCA1 cDNA sequence.
This approach, involving recurrent limited exposure to autologous virus, has not been successful in chronic infection [4,5], but has been shown to lead to at least transient containment of viremia after intervention in the acute phase of infection in humans and animals exposed to AIDS-associated retroviruses [6,7,8,9].
The hepadnaviral P protein possesses many unique features relative to the better studied reverse transcriptases of the retroviruses: (i) it uses its own amino-terminal domain as a protein primer for initiation of DNA synthesis [ 7, 9, 10], (ii) it cannot be isolated in an active form from virions without partial proteolysis or denaturation [ 13, 14, 15], and (iii) under normal circumstances it is active only on the endogenous pregenomic RNA that is encapsidated with it in the viral cores [ 16].
Evidence suggests that at least some of these retrovirus-like elements are infectious and have been classified as insect retroviruses [ 13, 14, 15] or errantiviruses [ 16].
Pools of cells containing stably integrated retroviruses were then used in transformation and tumor growth experiments.