%0 Journal Article %A Agrawal, Reitu %A Pelkonen, Jukka %A Mäntyjärvi, Rauno A. %T Bovine papillomavirus type 1-transformed primary mouse fibroblasts show no correlation between tumorigenicity and viral gene expression, but c-myc gene expression is elevated in tumorigenic cell lines %D 1992 %J Journal of General Virology, %V 73 %N 6 %P 1527-1532 %@ 1465-2099 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-73-6-1527 %I Microbiology Society, %X Bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV-1)-transformed primary mouse fibroblasts containing episomal or integrated BPV-1 sequences were analysed for virus-specific transcripts and c-myc gene expression. Total BPV-1-specific expression was high in cell lines containing episomal BPV-1 DNA in comparison to lines containing integrated BPV-1 sequences, mainly due to higher expression of the E6/E7 sequences. No correlation was found between the viral transcription and tumorigenicity, although BPV-1 gene expression occurred in all cell lines. High levels of c-myc expression were found in all cell lines exhibiting a tumorigenic phenotype as compared to the non-tumorigenic lines. These data suggest that expression of BPV-1 genes may be essential for transformation but not tumorigenicity, whereas high levels of expression of cellular oncogenes like c-myc may be associated with tumorigenicity. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-73-6-1527