Primary Study on the Interaction of JDV and Other Three Bovine Retroviruses
Abstract: To study the interaction among Jembrana disease virus, Bovine immunodeficiency virus, Bovine Foamy Virus and Bovine Leukemia Virus, a series of plasmids were constructed with their LTR and luc report gene, respectively, and transactivator expression plasmids of these four viruses were also constructed. These plasmids were co-transfected into BL12 cell line, respectively. Transient assay showed the interactivation between LTR and Tat of BIV and JDV, suggesting that they could be transactivated each other. In addition, BFV Tas could transactivate JDV LTR and JDV Tat could transactivate BLV LTR whereas BLV Tax had no effect on JDV LTR and no other interactivation was detected among BLV, BFV and BIV.