Research Article

Tropism, Cytotoxicity, and Inflammatory Properties of Two Envelope Genes of Murine Leukemia Virus Type-Endogenous Retroviruses of C57BL/6J Mice

Table 1

Tropism trait and infectivity of the ENVOV1 and ENVOV2 polypeptides. Infection titer unit (U/mL): number of LacZ positive cells per mL of supernatant containing virus particles. ND: not detectable.

Cell linesInfection titer (U/mL)
ENVOV1 ENVOV2pEcopAmphop10A1pVSVG

Human
 HeLa1.6 × 1011.5 × 104ND2.2 × 1042.2 × 1044.7 × 104
 tsA2013.1 × 1012.0 × 106ND2.8 × 1061.4 × 1068 × 106
 HCT1162.0 × 1013.2 × 104ND2.7 × 1044.0 × 1041.7 × 104

Nonhuman primate
 COS-14.0 × 1012.0 × 105ND2.0 × 1053.8 × 1051.2 × 105
 COS-76.9 × 1018.4 × 105ND1.3 × 1063.2 × 1065.2 × 106

Mouse
 NIH3T32.0 × 1019.5 × 1044.5 × 1051.7 × 1043.3 × 1041.4 × 104
 Neuro2aND2.1 × 1044.4 × 1032.7 × 1032.1 × 1034.8 × 103

Dog
 MDCKND3.2 × 101ND3.2 × 1022.6 × 1021.2 × 102