CELL-TRANSFORMING ABILITY OF A TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MUTANT OF POLYOMA VIRUS
CELL-TRANSFORMING ABILITY OF A TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MUTANT OF POLYOMA VIRUS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.53.3.486
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
FRIED, M
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作者:
FRIED, M
Materials and Methods.-Virus strains: The parental large plaque strain of polyoma virus (PY) has been described elsewhere. 4 The temperature-sensitive mutant (TS-a) was isolated from a stock of PY after nitrous acid treatment. 3Cell culture: BHK/C13 hamster cells5 were obtained from Dr. Michael Stoker of the Institute of Virology in Glasgow, Scotland, and were always cultivated in reinforced6 Eagle's medium con-taining 10% calf serum and 10% tryptone phosphate broth. Transformation assay: The transformationassay was essentially that described by Montagnier and Macpherson7'8 which distinguishes the cells transformed by polyoma virus from normal cells by their enhanced ability to form colonies in agar. Hamster cells (BHK/C13) were infected in suspension at a concentration of 108 cells/ml in reinforced Eagle's medium for1 hr at 38.50 C. The infected cells were washed three times with reinforced Eagle's medium to remove the unabsorbed virus and then suspended in 0.33% agar containing 10% calf serum and 10% tryptone phosphate broth in reinforced Eagle's medium at a concentration of 104 cells/ml. One and one-half ml of the 0.33% agar cell suspension was plated onto a preset base layer of 5 ml of 0.5% agar in 60-mm plastic Petri dishes. After the agar had hardened, the dishes were incubated at 31.50 and/or 38.50 C in well-humidified incubators containing 7% CO2. It should be pointed out that under these conditions the seeding of more than 2-3 X 104 cells/dish, as originally suggested by Montagnier and Macpherson, 7 8 resulted in the production of many normal cell colonies when incubated at 38.50 C. Incubation conditions: The assay dishes were divided into four equal groups which were each incubated in one of the following fashions before scoring for transformation:(1) high-temperature incubation-incubation 16-18 days at 38.50 C;(2)" shift up" incubation-incubation first for4 days at 31.50 C and then 16-18 days at 38.50 C;(3)" shift down" incubation-incubation first for 2 days at 38.50 C and then 32-36 days at 31.50 C;(4) low-temperature incubation-incubation 32-36 days at 31.50 C.