Cytogenetic effects of mycoplasmal infection of cell cultures: a review.
Cytogenetic effects of mycoplasmal infection of cell cultures: a review.
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细胞培养物支原体感染的细胞遗传学效应:综述。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02633326
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发表时间:
1984
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通讯作者:
Sarama,J
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作者:
McGarrity,GJ;Vanaman,V;Sarama,J
The presence of mycoplasmas in cell cultures represents a true in vitro infection. This hostparasite relationship is influenced by some of the factors operative in in vivo infection as well as those specific for in vitro cultivation, nycoplasmal infected cell cultures generally contain two logs more mycoplasmas than cultured cells. Figure 1 shows a scanning electron micrograph of a mycoplasma infected culture. Hamet et al.{1~ estimate that 25% of the total protein in infected cultures could be mycoplasmal. It is not surprising that mycoplasmas produce extensive changes in cultures they infect. Since the first report of Robinson et al.{2~ in 1956, hundreds of papers have been published on the effects mycoplasmas have on their cell culture hosts. An extensive bibliography of cell culture mycoplasmas, which included effects of infection, has been published 131. The objectives of this report are {al to provide cytogeneticists and cell biologists an understanding of some basic characteristics of mycoplasmas and lb) review the effects that mycoplasma infection has on the cytogenetics of cells in culture from either published reports or consideration of mycoplasmal characteristics. The published incidence of infection has ranged from 4 to 92%{4-7L The incidence is influenced by the population of cultures being surveyed, the frequency with which mycoplasmal assays have been performed, the in vitro life span of the cell cultures, and, most importantly, the quality control programs in the laboratories surveyed. Several large scale surveys have been performed. These are summarized in Table 1. The lower incidences of infection reported from our laboratory probably reflect that our assay population includes more primary and early passage material.