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  • Title: Antigenic relatedness of the DNA polymerase of human breast cancer particles to the enzyme of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus.
    Author: Ohno T, Spiegelman S.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 1977 May; 74(5):2144-8. PubMed ID: 68475.
    Abstract:
    We have previously reported [(Ohno, T., Sweet, R.W., Hu, R., DeJak, D. & Spiegelman, S. (1977) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74, 764-768)] on the purification and characterization of the DNA polymerase from human breast cancer particles. Its preference for certain synthetic templates and its ability to use a viral RNA to fashion a faithful DNA transcript identify it as a reverse transcriptase similar to that found in the mouse mammary tumor virus and in the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV). We report here that the human breast cancer enzyme crossreacts immunologically with the reverse transcriptase of MPMV. The crossreactivity was shown both by inhibition of enzyme activity and by complex formation between purified enzyme and isolated IgG against MPMV polymerase. No such interactions were observed with other oncornavirus reverse transcriptases of avian, murine, feline, or simian origin. Further, the IgG failed to neutralize the reverse transcriptases from human mesenchymal neoplasias (leukemias and lymphomas) or the activities of normal cellular DNA polymerases (alpha, beta, gamma).
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