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SUMMARY

The extent of methylation of several avian oncogenic proviruses was determined by using the restriction endonucleases II and I. The results indicated that the transformation-defective proviruses (RAV-O or B77-td), which are exogenously introduced into avian host cells, were not methylated. However, endogenous proviruses (RAV-O) or ASV proviruses present in non-permissive host cells were found to be partly or completely methylated. The methyl-sensitive restriction endonuclease I, which recognizes a unique site within the long terminal repeat in the ASV genome, failed to cleave proviruses present in several non-permissive host cells. From these results we suggest that modification of the sequence around the I site results in reduced levels of transcription.

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