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Glucocorticoids and chromosomal position modulate murine mammary tumor virus transcription by affecting efficiency of promoter utilization.

ABSTRACT

The rate of transcription of murine mammary tumor virus (MTV) sequences in MTV-infected rat hepatoma tissue culture cells is strongly affected by both glucocorticoid hormones and the chromosomal position of provirus integration. We have characterized MTV RNAs produced in J2.17 and M1.54, independent isolates containing, respectively, 1 and 10 proviruses integrated at distinct chromosomal loci. M1.54, but not J2.17, synthesized MTV RNA in the absence of glucocorticoids; the rate of hormone-stimulated viral gene transcription in M1.54 was 50- to 100-fold higher than in J2.17. In each case in which MTV genes were expressed (J2.17 induced, M1.54 basal and induced), the viral RNAs produced were indistinguishable. RNA blotting revealed accumulation of two transcripts, 7.8 and 3.8 kilobases; the latter was likely produced from the former by RNA splicing. Sites used for transcription initiation, polyadenylation, and splicing have been identified from the sizes of end-labeled hybridization probes protected from digestion with mung bean nuclease; the unique initiation and polyadenylation sites were both encoded within the MTV long-terminal-repeat sequence. The efficiencies of splicing and of utilization of the polyadenylation signal did not appear to vary as functions of chromosomal position or hormonal stimulation. Differences in rates of viral gene transcription were reflected in the differential accumulation of the 5'-terminal 136 nucleotides of MTV RNA. Thus, glucocorticoids and chromosomal position appeared to affect solely the efficiency of utilization of the MTV promoter, leaving unchanged the sites of initiation, splicing, and polyadenylation, as well as the efficiencies of the latter two processes.

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