Summers W P, Summers W C, Laski F A, RajBhandary U L, Sharp P A
J Virol. 1983 Aug;47(2):376-9. doi: 10.1128/JVI.47.2.376-379.1983.
A nonsense mutation (UAG) in the thymidine kinase gene of herpes simplex virus type 1 can be suppressed in vivo to produce active thymidine kinase by prior infection with a defective simian virus 40 stock which acts as a vector to introduce a functional suppressor tRNA gene into mammalian cells in culture. The suppression is specific for UAG, but not UGA or missense, mutants and restores thymidine kinase activity to 20 to 40% of the wild-type level. These results suggest that many cell lines susceptible to simian virus 40 infection may be transiently converted to a suppressor-positive phenotype for use in the genetic study of mammalian viruses.
单纯疱疹病毒1型胸苷激酶基因中的无义突变(UAG),可通过事先用缺陷型猿猴病毒40毒株感染在体内被抑制,从而产生活性胸苷激酶。该毒株作为载体,将功能性抑制性tRNA基因导入培养的哺乳动物细胞中。这种抑制作用对UAG突变体具有特异性,对UGA或错义突变体则无作用,可将胸苷激酶活性恢复至野生型水平的20%至40%。这些结果表明,许多易受猿猴病毒40感染的细胞系可能会暂时转变为抑制阳性表型,用于哺乳动物病毒的遗传学研究。