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Chu CM, Wei BY, Tian SF, Ren GF. Host dependence of naturally occurring temperature-sensitive influenza A viruses and location of their genetic lesions. Virus Res 1992; 22:207-14. [PMID: 1626417 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1702(92)90052-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Naturally occurring temperature-sensitive (ts) strains have been found in large number in human influenza A viruses of all subtypes (J. Virol. 41 (1982) 353). Further studies have demonstrated that the ts phenotype of these viruses is host-dependent in that they are highly ts in chick embryos and chick embryonic cells, but are ts+ in MDCK cells. Previous studies have located by complementation tests the ts lesion of two H3N2 viruses (HK/8/68 and Ningxia/01/72, also known as Xia-ts) on the NP gene and that of two H1N1 viruses (Tianjin/78/77 and Beijing/1/79) on the M protein gene. By recombination and polyacrylamide electrophoresis migration of the RNA segments of its ts+ recombinant with PR8, the ts lesion of a later H3N2 virus A/Qi/39/79 has now been located on the M protein gene. The possibility for Qi/39/79 of acquiring the M gene lesion by reassortment with concurrently circulating Tianjin/78/77-like (H1N1) virus which also has ts lesion on the M gene was investigated. In contrast to Tianjin/78/77 (H1N1), however, Qi/39/79 complemented well with ts 51, a WSN ts strain with a single M gene lesion. Qi/39/79 and Tianjin/78/77 also complemented each other. Thus, there are two intra-segmental complementation groups of the M gene: Qi/39/79 belongs to one complementation group, while WSN ts 51 and Tianjin/78/77 belong to another. At present, there is no evidence of reassortment involving the genes concerned in the ts lesions of H3N2 and H1N1 viruses under natural conditions.
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- C M Chu
- Institute of Virology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Nonsegmented negative strand RNA viruses comprise major human and animal pathogens in nature. This class of viruses is ubiquitous and infects vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. Our laboratory has been working on the gene expression of two prototype nonsegmented negative strand RNA viruses, vesicular stomatitis virus (a rhabdovirus) and human parainfluenza virus 3 (a paramyxovirus). An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (L and P protein) is packaged within the virion which faithfully copies the genome RNA in vitro and in vivo; this enzyme complex, in association with the nucleocapsid protein (N), is also involved in the replication process. In this review, we have presented up-to-date information of the structure and function of the RNA polymerases of these two viruses, the mechanisms of transcription and replication, and the role of host proteins in the life-cycle of the viruses. These detailed studies have led us to a better understanding of the roles of viral and cellular proteins in the viral gene expression.
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- A K Banerjee
- Department of Molecular Biology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195
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Mukherjee PK, Simpson RW. Transcriptionally defective nucleocapsids of vesicular stomatitis virus from cells treated with indomethacin. Virology 1987; 156:25-31. [PMID: 3027967 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(87)90432-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Indomethacin blocks the biosynthesis of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) at the level of primary transcription, RNA replication, and protein synthesis (P. K. Mukherjee and R. W. Simpson (1985), Virology 140, 188-191). Nucleocapsids of infecting virus particles recovered from indomethacin-treated cells were analyzed for in vitro transcriptase activity. Incorporation of [3H]UTP in mixtures containing nucleocapsids from HEp-2 cells pretreated with 10(-3) M indomethacin was inhibited approximately 80% compared to control reactions containing nucleocapsids from untreated infected cells. The level of inhibition of in vitro transcriptase activity of viral nucleocapsids from drug-treated cultures varied according to the cell line used for infection. After indomethacin removal, cells regained their ability to produce enzymatically competent viral-transcribing complexes unless they were subsequently exposed to metabolic inhibitors such as actinomycin D or alpha-amanitin. Enzymatically defective nucleocapsids from indomethacin-treated cells showed enhanced in vitro transcriptase activity in the presence of modulators of prostaglandins and cyclic nucleotides. Electrophoretic analysis of product from in vitro transcriptase reactions revealed that these defective nucleocapsids are unable to synthesize VSV messenger RNA or normal size leader RNA species but only smaller transcripts of undetermined identity.
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Horikami SM, De Ferra F, Moyer SA. Characterization of the infections of permissive and nonpermissive cells by host range mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus defective in RNA methylation. Virology 1984; 138:1-15. [PMID: 6093352 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90142-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Two host range mutants of VSV, hr 1 and hr 8, which, unlike the wild-type virus, have a mRNA methylation defect and direct the in vitro synthesis of full-length capped but unmethylated viral mRNAs have been described previously (S.M. Horikami and S.A. Moyer, 1982, Proc. Natl, Acad. Sci. USA 79, 7694-7698). It is shown that the in vivo nonpermissive infection of HEp-2 cells by either of these two mutants is characterized by the reduced synthesis of full-length mRNAs at levels characteristic of primary transcription and the total lack of synthesis of genome-length RNA. The VSV mRNAs synthesized by either mutant in HEp-2 cells are not translated either in vivo or in vitro in mRNA-dependent rabbit reticulocyte lysates. Subsequent isolation and analysis of the mRNAs from infected HEp-2 cells has shown that the 5' termini of the messages contain a cap structure which is guanylylated, but unmethylated (GpppA), a finding that might account for the lack of translatability. Hence these mutants are unable to properly methylate mRNAs whether they are synthesized in vitro or in vivo within nonpermissively infected cells. It is also shown that unlike hr 1, the undermethylation of mRNA synthesized by hr 8 is partially reversible by the addition of high levels of AdoMet in vitro. It is interesting to note, therefore, that permissive baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells have a 10-fold higher level of endogenous AdoMet than the nonpermissive HEp-2 cells. Unlike singly infected cells, the coinfection of HEp-2 cells with either hr mutant and a poxvirus yields a permissive infection for these two host range mutants. Analysis of the VSV mRNAs produced in vivo under the conditions of rescue reveals the presence of fully methylated caps (7mGppp(m)Am), suggesting that poxvirus may rescue the mutants by converting the VSV mRNAs to a translationally active form due to methylation by the cytoplasmic poxvirus mRNA methyltransferase enzymes. Both mutants are, however, able to grow normally in permissive BHK cells. An analysis of the translationally active mRNAs from infected permissive cells shows the presence primarily of a 5'-monomethylated cap, 7mGpppA. Finally, we have examined the nonpermissive infections of two other host range mutants of VSV (hr 5 and hr 7). Unlike mutants hr 1 and hr 8 described above, these two mutants synthesize mRNA in HEp-2 cells which is translated both in vivo and in vitro.
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Durbin RK, Stollar V. A mutant of sindbis virus with a host-dependent defect in maturation associated with hyperglycosylation of E2. Virology 1984; 135:331-44. [PMID: 6740942 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90190-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Following serial passage of Sindbis virus (SV) on Aedes albopictus mosquito cells a mutant (SVap15/21) was isolated which in chick cells produced small plaques and was temperature sensitive (ts). At 34.5 degrees this mutant replicated normally in mosquito cells, but only poorly in chick or BHK cells. In the vertebrate cells SVap15/21 was RNA+ at both 34.5 and 40 degrees and on the basis of complementation tests carried out at 40 degrees, was assigned to complementation group E. The block in the replication of this mutant, like that of ts20, the prototype mutant of complementation group E, was at the level of nucleocapsid envelopment. The PE2 and E2 glycoproteins of SVap15/21 were found to be hyperglycosylated relative to the corresponding glycoproteins of the parent virus (SVstd). Analysis of revertants of SVap15/21 suggests a causal relationship between PE2 and E2 hyperglycosylation and the host-specific defect in virus maturation. The association of a host-specific defect in virion assembly with hyperglycosylation of a viral structural protein points to the potential importance of host-specific glycosylation patterns in the determination of viral host range.
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Mukherjee PK, Simpson RW. Reversible restriction of vesicular stomatitis virus in permissive cells treated with inhibitors of prostaglandin biosynthesis. Virology 1984; 135:345-55. [PMID: 6330977 PMCID: PMC7131808 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90191-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Indomethacin, a potent nonsteroidal inhibitor of prostaglandin synthetase (cyclooxygenase) reduced yields of infectious vesicular stomatitis virus in HEp-2 cells more than 99% if added to cultures at levels of 10(-3)M either before or after infection. Other permissive cell lines differed according to the treatment period and drug level required for restricting productive infections. The inhibitory effect of indomethacin was progressively reduced if infection of cells was delayed for increasing times after drug removal. Strong inhibition of viral replication also occurred in cells treated with the cyclooxygenase antagonists naproxen, phenylbutazone, and oxyphenylbutazone whereas phenacetin, which does not block cyclooxygenase function, was inactive. Enhanced viral replication occurred in indomethacin-treated HEp-2 cultures when these cells were subsequently exposed to such substances as prostaglandin E1, cyclic AMP, or insulin. Conversely, indomethacin-treated cells remained restrictive for VSV if they were subsequently exposed to metabolic inhibitors of functional DNA (actinomycin D or mitomycin C), messenger RNA synthesis (alpha-amanitin), or protein synthesis (cycloheximide) at concentrations that normally do not compromise viral replication. Pretreatment of HEp-2 cells with mitomycin C markedly shifted the dose response for indomethacin-mediated inhibition of VSV from a 90% inhibitory dose of about 10(-4)M to one of 10(-9)M or lower. These findings suggest that preexisting host factors essential for replication of VSV, although rendered nonfunctional by the drug indomethacin, can be replenished unless their synthesis is blocked by various classes of metabolic inhibitors.
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Martinet-Edelist C, Deutsch V, Tuffereau C, Genty N. Intracellular events following the infection of different cell types with vesicular stomatitis subviral particles. Virology 1984; 135:266-78. [PMID: 6328751 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90136-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) subviral particles (nucleocapsids and G-depleted particles) were used to infect various cells (chicken embryo, HeLa, and BHK21 cells). These particles bind to and penetrate into host cells; the association of G-depleted particles to cells was even better than that of normal virions. The parental genomes of subviral particles and virions were degraded at the same rate in the infected cells. Nevertheless, these subviral particles had a very low infectivity, synthesized very little viral macromolecules, and had very little, if any, effect on the various host cells used. Furthermore , subviral particles could be rescued in chicken embryo cells by uv-irradiated VSV virions, demonstrating that subviral particles actually penetrated into cells, and that their arrested cycle could be unblocked up to a certain point. On the other hand, subviral particles were not rescued in HeLa cells, suggesting a dependence on the host cell system.
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Wilusz J, Keene JD. Interactions of plus and minus strand leader RNAs of the New Jersey serotype of vesicular stomatitis virus with the cellular La protein. Virology 1984; 135:65-73. [PMID: 6203219 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90117-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The New Jersey serotype of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-NJ) was found to synthesize a minus strand leader RNA of 44-46 bases long and a plus strand leader RNA of 47-50 bases long in infected cells. The minus strand leader RNA of VSV-NJ was found associated with the host cell La protein in infected cells by immunoprecipitation with antisera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. These results differ from those reported previously (J. Wilusz , M. G. Kurilla , and J. D. Keene (1983). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80, 5827-5831) for the similarly sized species of minus strand leader RNA made by the Indiana serotype of VSV (VSV-IND). Despite sequence differences between the 3' ends of the plus strand leader RNAs of the two serotypes, the plus strand leader RNA of VSV-NJ was found to have a pattern of La protein accumulation similar to that reported previously for the plus strand leader RNA of VSV-IND. These results provide additional support for a role for La protein in VSV replication and help further delineate the sequence requirements for La protein binding to VSV leader RNAs.
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Wilusz J, Kurilla MG, Keene JD. A host protein (La) binds to a unique species of minus-sense leader RNA during replication of vesicular stomatitis virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983; 80:5827-31. [PMID: 6310594 PMCID: PMC390168 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.19.5827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Baby hamster kidney cells infected with the minus-strand RNA virus vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) were found to contain three small viral leader RNA species of the minus sense. The longest minus-strand leader RNA was 54 nucleotides long and was complexed with the host cell La protein that was immunoprecipitated by antisera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. The La protein is normally found associated with RNA polymerase III transcripts in their unprocessed form. Shorter minus-strand leader RNA species of 45-48 nucleotides were more abundant but were not associated with the La protein. Unlike the plus-strand leader RNA of VSV, the minus-strand leader RNAs were not detected in the nucleus in any form. The minus-strand leader RNAs accumulated gradually throughout the infection and could not be found in association with the viral nucleocapsid protein. The sequence required for La protein binding on the 54-nucleotide-long minus-strand leader is similar to that at the 3' end of the La protein binding-plus-strand leader RNA and, thus, we propose a role for the La protein in the replication of VSV.
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Shimizu K, Mullinix MG, Chanock RM, Murphy BR. Temperature-sensitive mutants of influenza A/Udorn/72 (H3N2) virus. III. Genetic analysis of temperature-dependent host range mutants. Virology 1983; 124:35-44. [PMID: 6823745 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(83)90288-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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One hundred thirty-three ts mutants of influenza A/Udorn/72 virus were arranged into eight complementation groups, A-H, on Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) monolayer cultures at the restrictive temperature of 40 degrees. The eight complementation groups, A-H, on MDCK cells corresponded to the eight recombination groups, A-H, on rhesus monkey kidney (RMK) cells, respectively, and this suggested that each MDCK complementation group represented one of the eight influenza A RNA gene segments. These ts viruses were used to identify the locus of the ts mutation in temperature-dependent host range (td-hr) mutants of the A/Udorn/72 virus. Sixteen of the 133 ts mutants exhibited distinct host (MDCK)-dependent restriction of plaque formation at 40 degrees but not at 34 degrees and were referred to as td-hr mutants. These 16 td-hr mutants were ts+ (not ts) on RMK cells but ts on MDCK cells. The td-hr mutants did not share a common lesion and the ts lesions were distributed among the eight complementation groups, A-H, when tested on MDCK cells. An analysis of one of the td-hr mutants indicated that an extrageneic RMK-dependent suppressor mutation did not account for the td-hr phenotype. These data suggested that a host-dependent ts mutation was responsible for the td-hr restriction of this mutant. Representation of td-hr mutations in each of the eight complementation groups indicates that the influenza A virus genome can undergo mutation leading to an altered host range in any of its eight RNA segments.
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Only two recombination groups have been reported in genetic analyses of ts mutants of 10 different bunyaviruses from the Bunyamwera and California encephalitis serogroups, although three groups are expected from the tripartite structure of the genome of all members of the family Bunyaviridae. We describe now a ts mutant of Maguari virus, MAGts23(III), which recombined in both vertebrate (BHK-21) and invertebrate (Aedes albopictus) cells with mutants representing recombination groups I and II of this Bunyamwera serogroup virus. In addition, MAGts23(III) recombined with two mutants MAGts20 and MAGts21, provisionally identified as double mutants by their failure to recombine with group I or group II mutants, Mutant MAGts23(III) therefore represents a third bunyavirus recombination group. Mutant MAGts23(III) differed phenotypically from other bunyavirus mutants by growth restriction in BS-C-1 cells. Wild-type recombinants were obtained in the heterologous cross of MAGts23(III) and a group II mutant of Bunyamwera virus, but not in a cross with a group I mutant. The recombinants had the G protein of the Maguari virus parent and the N protein of the Bunyamwera virus parent. Analysis of the phenotypes of clones isolated at permissive temperature from the progeny of the other cross [MAGts23(III) and a group I mutant of Bunyamwera virus] indicated that recombination occurred in this cross, but that the possible recombinant phenotypes were not recovered with equal frequency. As a consequence, it has not been possible to obtain a gene assignment for group III from genetic data alone.
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Hill VM, Marnell L, Summers DF. In vitro replication and assembly of vesicular stomatitis virus nucleocapsids. Virology 1981; 113:109-18. [PMID: 6267779 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(81)90140-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Preble OT, Costello LE, Huang DD, Barmada MA. Neurovirulence mutant of vesicular stomatitis virus with an altered target cell tropism in vivo. Infect Immun 1980; 29:744-57. [PMID: 6163714 PMCID: PMC551188 DOI: 10.1128/iai.29.2.744-757.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Intracerebral infection of weanling Swiss mice with a temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), ts pi364, resulted in a unique neuropathological syndrome not previously described with other VSV mutants. Mice infected with wild-type VSV died from an acute encephalitis characterized by neuronal necrosis and efficient virus replication in both brain and spinal cord. In contrast, with VSV ts pi364, the most prominent histopathological feature was destruction of the ependyma of the lateral ventricles. Virus antigen was also limited to the leptomeninges and the lateral ventricles. Infected mice survived and developed hydrocephalus. Replication of ts pi364 in the brain was 10- to 100- fold less than that of wild-type VSV, and appearance of virus in the spinal cord was delayed. VSV ts pi364 was isolated from mouse cells persistently infected with VSV. Another VSV ts pi mutant, isolated from the same persistent infection, behaved in vivo like wild-type VSV, even though both mutants were very similar in plaque size, reversion frequency, cut-off temperature, and synthesis of virus-specific proteins at semipermissive temperature. These results strongly suggest that VSV ts pi364 has a second, non-ts mutation which results in a restricted target cell range in vivo; wild-type VSV can infect both neurons and ependymal cells, whereas ts pi364 does not replicate in neurons.
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Gadkari DA, Pringle CR. Temperature-sensitive mutants of Chandipura virus. I. Inter- and intragroup complementation. J Virol 1980; 33:100-6. [PMID: 7365866 PMCID: PMC288527 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.33.1.100-106.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Fifty temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of Chandipura virus, a human rhabdovirus, have been classified into six complementation groups, designated ChI, ChII, ChII, ChIV, ChV, and ChVI and containing 44, 2, 1, 1, 1, and 1 mutants, respectively. Weak complementation was observed within group ChI, allowing the division of the group into subgroups ChIA and ChIB. Intragroup complementation was most extensive within subgroup ChIB, and one mutant in this subgroup complemented all but one (ts Ch598) of the mutants in group ChI. If ts Ch598 had been omitted from the analysis the number of complementation groups would have been increased to seven. Consequently, in circumstances where intragenic and intergenic complementation cannot be clearly distinguished, the number of complementation groups identified in rhabdoviruses could be overestimated. The identification of six complementation groups in three different rhabdoviruses need not imply the existence of an as yet unidentified sixth virus-specified polypeptide. The extensive intragroup complementation observed in Chandipura virus suggests that the functional form of one at least of the virion proteins of Chandipura virus is a multimer.
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Evans D, Pringle CR, Szilágyi JF. Temperature-sensitive mutants of complementation group E of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey serotype possess altered NS polypeptides. J Virol 1979; 31:325-33. [PMID: 225557 PMCID: PMC353454 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.31.2.325-333.1979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey serotype polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was unable to distinguish the polypeptides of the temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of complementation groups A, B, C, and F from those of the wild-type virus. However, the NS polypeptide of the representative mutant of group E, ts E1, had a significantly greater electrophoretic mobility than that of the wild-type virus NS polypeptide. The electrophoretic mobilities of the NS polypeptides of the three mutants of complementation group E varied, being greatest in the case of ts E1, slightly less for ts E2, and only a little greater than that of wild-type virus NS polypeptide in the case of ts E3. Since the NS polypeptides of the revertant clones ts E1/R1 and ts E3/R1 have mobilities identical to that of wild-type NS polypeptide, the observed altered mobilities of the group E mutants are almost certainly the direct result of the ts mutations in the E locus. The electrophoretic mobilities of the intracellular NS polypeptides of the group E mutants were indistinguishable from those of their virion NS polypeptides. The electrophoretic mobilities of the NS polypeptides of the group E mutants synthesized in vitro using mRNA synthesized in vitro by TNP were identical to those of the NS polypeptides of their purified virions. The NS polypeptides of all three mutants were labeled with (32)P(i) to approximately the same extent as wild-type virus NS polypeptide, indicating that gross differences in phosphorylation of this polypeptide are unlikely to account for the altered mobilities. We propose a model in which the NS polypeptide consists of at least three loops held in this configuration by hydrophobic or ionic forces or both and stabilized by phosphodiester bridges. If a mutation affects one of the amino acids to which the phosphate is covalently linked, the phosphodiester bridge cannot be formed, and, as a result, in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate the affected loop opens and thus the NS polypeptide migrates further into the gel. Such a configuration may also explain the multifunctional nature of the NS polypeptide.
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Batt-Humphries S, Simonsen C, Ehrenfeld E. Full-length viral RNA synthesized in vitro by vesicular stomatitis virus-infected HeLa cell extracts. Virology 1979; 96:88-99. [PMID: 223312 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(79)90175-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Szilágyi JF, Pringle CR. Effect of temperature-sensitive mutation on activity of the RNA transcriptase of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey. J Virol 1979; 30:692-700. [PMID: 225538 PMCID: PMC353377 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.30.3.692-700.1979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The virion-associated RNA transcriptase activity of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants was assayed in vitro at the permissive (31 degrees C) and restrictive (39 degrees C) temperatures. RNA synthesis at 39 degrees C by the RNA-negative ts A1 and the RNA-positive ts C1 and ts D1 mutants was similar to that of wild-type virus. The RNA-negative ts B1 synthesized only small amounts of RNA in vitro at 39 degrees C. The three mutants of complementation group E were dissimilar in the amounts of RNA they synthesized at 39 degrees C: ts E1 synthesized very little RNA, ts E2 synthesized moderate amounts, and RNA synthesis by ts E3 was not inhibited. The two mutants of group F were also dissimilar, since ts F1 synthesized very little RNA at 39 degrees C, whereas ts F2 synthesized as much RNA as wild-type virus. The revertant clones ts B1/R1, ts E1/R1, and ts F1/R1 synthesized RNA at 39 degrees C in amounts comparable to wild-type virus, indicating that the heat sensitivity of the transcriptase activity of the mutants ts B1, ts E1, and ts F1 was associated with temperature sensitivity. Similar heat sensitivities were observed when transcribing nucleoprotein complexes were used in the assays, showing that the mutated polypeptides were part of the viral core. The heat stability of the mutant ts B1 was similar to that of wild-type virus, and in vitro RNA synthesis was fully restored when the temperature was lowered to 31 degrees C after 30 min of preincubation at 39 degrees C, showing that the inhibition was due to reversible configurational change of the mutated polypeptide. When virions of the mutant ts E1 were heated for 5 h at 39 degrees C, their infectivity and transcriptase activity were as stable as those of the wild-type virus, whereas transcriptase activity became very heat labile after disruption of the viral coat with a neutral detergent. This suggests an interaction between the mutated polypeptide and a coat polypeptide which stabilizes the activity of the transcriptase. The RNA transcriptase activity of the mutant ts F1 was also heat labile, although to a lesser extent than that of ts E1. Thus, the defects in transcriptase activity of groups B, E, and F suggest that all three polypeptides of the virus core, polypeptides L, N, and NS, are involved in the transcription. In addition, we postulate that the mutated gene products of groups E and F are multifunctional, being required both in transcription and replication, and that the gene product of group E may also be involved in some late stage of virus development.
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Simpson RW, Obijeski JF, Morrongiello MP. Conditional lethal mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus. III. Host range properties, interfering capacity, and complementation patterns of specific hr mutants. Virology 1979; 93:493-505. [PMID: 222052 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(79)90252-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Morrongiello MP, Simpson RW. Conditional lethal mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus. IV. RNA species detected in nonpermissive cells infected with host-restricted mutants. Virology 1979; 93:506-14. [PMID: 222053 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(79)90253-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of fowl plague virus with a ts-lesion in segment 1 (ts 3, polymerase 1 gene) or segment 2 (ts 90, transport gene) do not form plaques on MDCK cells at the permissive temperature, while the wild type and ts-mutants of other groups are able to do so. This property is correlated with the ts-lesion, since revertants for the ts-lesion of ts 3 and ts 90 again form plaques on MDCK cells. The block on MDCK cells--at least for ts3--may be located in a late function, since viral RNA polymerase and hemagglutinin are formed in almost normal yields. MDCK cells infected with ts 3 or ts 90 exhibit a retarded cytopathic effect at 33 degrees C, but no cytopathic effect at 39 degrees C, at which temperature the infected cells can be passaged and super-infected with the wild type strain. Cells surviving the infection with ts 90 at 33 degrees C sometimes grow out again to a normal monolayer. It is suggested that the spread of virus is inhibited under these conditions.
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McGeoch DJ, Turnbull NT. Analysis of the 3'-terminal nucleotide sequence of vesicular stomatitis virus N protein mRNA. Nucleic Acids Res 1978; 5:4007-24. [PMID: 82934 PMCID: PMC342730 DOI: 10.1093/nar/5.11.4007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The sequence of 205 nucleotides adjacent to the poly(A) tract at the 3'-terminus of the mRNA encoding the N polypeptide of vesicular stomatitis virus has been determined by copying with reverse transcriptase and using 2', 3'-dideoxynucleoside triphosphates as specific chain terminators. The method appears highly suitable for sequence determination in any purified mRNA. An examination of the sequence did not locate without ambiguity the limit of polypeptide coding RNA. The hexanucleotide AAUAAA, previously found in all poly(A)-containing eukaryote mRNAs, is not present, although the sequence immediately adjacent to the 3'-terminal poly(A) has a high content of A+U.
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Pringle CR. The tdCE and hrCE phenotypes: host range mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus in which polymerase function is affected. Cell 1978; 15:597-606. [PMID: 214246 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(78)90028-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Levinson W, Oppermann H, Rubenstein P, Jackson J. Host range restriction of vesicular stomatitis virus on duck embryo cells. Virology 1978; 85:612-6. [PMID: 208241 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(78)90466-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Szilágyi JF, Pringle CR, Macpherson TM. Temperature-dependent host range mutation in vesicular stomatitis virus affecting polypeptide L. J Virol 1977; 22:381-8. [PMID: 194060 PMCID: PMC515729 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.22.2.381-388.1977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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We established previously that the temperature-dependent host range mutant, td CE 3, of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) New Jersey possesses temperature-sensitive RNA transcriptase activity. In this paper, we describe dissociation and reconstitution experiments designed to determine which VSV polypeptide is affected by the td CE 3 mutation. Wild-type VSV New Jersey (ts+), the temperature-dependent host range mutant (td CE 3), and the revertant of this mutant (td CE/R1) were used. Transcribing nucleoprotein preparations, isolated from purified virus particles, were treated in the presence of digitonin with either 0.9 M LiCl to produce supernatants containing virtually only the L polypeptide or 2.0 M LiCl to produce ribonucleoprotein pellets containing only the polypeptides N and NS. Supernatant and pellet fractions synthesized either no or only trace amounts of RNA in vitro. Reconstitution of the supernatants with the pellets in all combinations at 31 degrees C restored much of the transcriptase activity of the transcribing nucleoprotein preparations. RNA synthesis occurred at 39 degrees C when the three pellets were reconstituted with wild-type and revertant supernatants. However, supernatant of the mutant td CE 3 reconstituted with any of the three pellets resulted in little or no detectable transcriptase activity at 39 degrees C. This implies that the polypeptide affected by the td CE 3 mutation is the L polypeptide.
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Preston CM, Szilagyi JF. Cell-free translation of RNA synthesized in vitro by a transcribing nucleoprotein complex prepared from purified vesicular stomatitis virus. J Virol 1977; 21:1002-9. [PMID: 191633 PMCID: PMC515640 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.21.3.1002-1009.1977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The RNA species synthesized in vitro by a transcribing nucleoprotein (TNP) complex of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) were translated with high efficiency in a fractionated cell-free system derived from reticulocytes. The use of TNP complexes isolated from VSV Indiana, VSV New Jersey, and Chandipura viruses showed that in each case the predominant polypeptides synthesized had electrophoretic mobilities identical to their virion N, NS, and M polypeptides in proportions reflecting those found in infected cells rather than purified virions. A minor polypeptide corresponding to unglycosylated polypeptide G was also observed, but the in vitro synthesis of polypeptide L was not detected. The addition of RNase inhibitor to transcription mixtures markedly increased the rate of RNA synthesis. Furthermore, the messenger activity of the RNA was significantly enhanced. The inclusion of S-adenosyl L-methionine during transcription substantially increased the messenger activity of the product RNA, suggesting a requirement for methylation. Fractionation by oligodeoxythymidylic acid-cellulose chromatography revealed that the RNA required a polyadnylic acid tract for messenger activity.
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Pringle CR. Enucleation as a technique in the study of virus-host interactions. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1977; 76:49-82. [PMID: 334483 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-66653-7_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Spandidos DA, Graham AF. Nonpermissive infection of L cells by an avian reovirus: restricted transcription of the viral genome. J Virol 1976; 19:977-84. [PMID: 987253 PMCID: PMC354938 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.19.3.977-984.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Avian reovirus multiples in chicken embryo fibroblasts. Although the avian virus adsorbs to L cells and is uncoated therein, it does not multiply. In the nonpermissive infection of L cells with the avian reovirus only four of the genomic segments of the viral genome are transcribed, L1, M3, S3, and S4, and these are the same segments that have been designated previously as early functions in the permissive infection of L cells with type 3 reovirus. When L cells are co-infected with avian reovirus and type 3 virus all ten segments of the avian viral genome are transcribed, although there is no synthesis of avian viral double-stranded RNA. Type 3 reovirus multiplies almost normally in this mixed infection. The most likely explanation is that a cellular repressor blocks transcription of the six late segments of the avian viral genome and that this repressor is removed by the co-infection with type 3 virus. A second block prevents replication of the viral genome.
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Galet H, Hallett D, Prevec L. Analysis of in vitro transcription products of intracellular vesicular stomatitis virus RNA polymerase. J Virol 1976; 19:467-74. [PMID: 183012 PMCID: PMC354884 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.19.2.467-474.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The intracellular transcriptase complex of vesicular stomatitis virus-infected L cells synthesized RNA complementary to the entire infectious virus genome at either 37 degrees C or 28 degrees C in vitro. Not all sequences were present at the same frequency, however; copies of that segment of the genome common to the LT defective particles were present at 20 to 100 times higher frequently than copies of the genome segment common to the ST defective particle. The less frequent region was transcribed somewhat more effectively at 28 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. The results suggest that transcriptional regulation rather than selective degradation is responsible for the differential accumulation of RNA.
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