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Division of Cellular Immunology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
From a cross between a tumor-susceptible mouse strain (DBA/2; D) and a tumor-resistant MHC-identical strain (B10.D2; D2) new recombinant inbred mouse strains were established over many generations of inbreeding and tumor resistance selection. Since resistance to the highly metastatic DBA/2 lymphoma variant ESb had an immunologic basis, and the two parental strains differed in endogenous viral superantigens (vSAGs), DNA of three D2xD recombinant inbred mouse lines was typed for endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses using mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat- and env gene-specific probes. The resistant D2xD mice were very similar to the susceptible parental strain D in their Mtv Southern blots, except for the lack of a single band corresponding to Mtv-7, the provirus coding for the strong DBA/2 superantigen Mls-1a. A backcross analysis revealed that Mtv-7-negative F2 mice were significantly more resistant than Mtv-7-positive F2 mice. When Mtv-7 was reintroduced into the resistant lines by crossing them with either CBA/J or BALB/D2.Mls-1a, the mice became again more tumor susceptible. Finally, we demonstrate the ability to transfer immunoresistance and graft-vs-leukemia reactivity from tumor-resistant to tumor-susceptible mice.
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