Woolly monkey sarcoma virus

Woolly monkey sarcoma virus
Virus classification
Group:	Group VI (ssRNA-RT)
Family:	Retroviridae
Subfamily:	Orthoretrovirinae
Genus:	Gammaretrovirus
Species:	Woolly monkey sarcoma virus

Woolly monkey sarcoma virus (WMSV), with synonym Simian sarcoma virus (often abbreviated by SSV, but this may also stand for some species called 'Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus', that belong to different genera in family Fuselloviridae) is a species of gammaretrovirus that infects primates. First isolation was from a fibrosarcoma in a woolly monkey (genus Lagothrix). For its reproduction the virus needs a helper or associated virus which is called Simian sarcoma associated virus (SSAV).^[1][2][3]

References

1. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
2. NCBI Taxonomy Browser
3. Zoologix Simian sarcoma virus (SSV) and simian sarcoma associated virus (SSAV)

External links

• University of Massachusetts Medical School Umass Profiles: Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey
• S. G. Devare, E. Premkumar Reddy, J. Doria Law, K. C. Robbins, S. A. Aaronson: Nucleotide Sequence of the Simian Sarcoma Virus Genome: Demonstration that its Acquired Cellular Sequences Encode the Transforming Gene Product p28^sis, alternatively: at JSTOR, at Europe PMC, at NCBI PMC (PMCID:PMC393453)
• E. P. Gelmannn, E. Petri, A. Cetta, F. Wong-Staal: Deletions of specific regions of the simian sarcoma-associated virus genome are found in defective viruses and in the simian sarcoma virus, in: Europe PMC: J Virol. 1982 February; 41(2): 593–604 (PMID 6281470, PMCID:PMC256788)
• M. Born, K. on der Helm, F. Deinhardt: Virus-specific phosphoproteins in simian sarcoma virus-transformed primate cells, in: EMBO J. 1982; 1(9): 1029–1033 (PMCID: PMC553157)
• A. Johnsson, C. Betsholtz, C. H. Heldin, and B. Westermark: The phenotypic characteristics of simian sarcoma virus-transformed human fibroblasts suggest that the v-sis gene product acts solely as a PDGF receptor agonist in cell transformation, in: EMBO J. 1986 Jul; 5(7): 1535–1541 (PMCID: PMC1166977)
• F. Wong-Staal, R. Dalla Favera, E. P. Gelmann, V. Manzari*, S. Szala, S. F. Josephs, R. C. Gallo: The v-sis transforming gene of simian sarcoma virus is a new onc gene of primate origin, in: Nature 294, 273-275 (19 November 1981); doi:10.1038/294273a0, alternatively at ResearchGate
• H. M. Fidanián, W. N. Drohán, M. A. Baluda: RNA of simian sarcoma-associated virus type 1 produced in human tumor cells, in: J Virol. 1975 Mar; 15(3): 449–457 (PMCID: PMC354479)
• L. G. Wolfe, R. K. Smith, F. Deinhardt: Simian Sarcoma Virus, Type 1 (Lagothrix): Focus Assay and Demonstration of Nontransforming Associated Virus, in: JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst (1972) 48 (6): 1905-1908, doi: 10.1093/jnci/48.6.1905