Vernet M, Cebrian J
Institut Cochin de Génétique Molécularire, Laboratoire de Génétique et Pathologie Expérimentales, Unité 380 de l'Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France.
J Virol. 1996 Aug;70(8):5630-3. doi: 10.1128/JVI.70.8.5630-5633.1996.
We have addressed the question of the nature of Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) repression in mouse embryos by assaying for the transient expression of MoMuLV-derived constructs microinjected into early cleavage embryos. We show that the same cis-acting DNA sequences responsible for the block in MoMuLV expression in embryonal carcinoma cell lines operate in early embryos: (i) the MoMuLV long terminal repeat is nonfunctional, and (ii) the +147 to +163 repressor binding site, or negative regulatory element, negatively regulates the expression from an active promoter.