ROLE OF THE HOST-CELL IN PERSISTENT VIRAL-INFECTION - COEVOLUTION OF L-CELLS AND REOVIRUS DURING PERSISTENT INFECTION
ROLE OF THE HOST-CELL IN PERSISTENT VIRAL-INFECTION - COEVOLUTION OF L-CELLS AND REOVIRUS DURING PERSISTENT INFECTION
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(81)90050-7
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
FIELDS, BN
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作者:
AHMED, R;CANNING, WM;FIELDS, BN
Mutant L [mouse fibroblast] cells, designated LR cells, were isolated after curing a persistently infected cell line (L/C) with antireovirus serum. The LR cells were virus-free; no reovirus was detectable by infectious center assays, plaque assays, presence of viral proteins, presence of viral ds(double-stranded)RNA and immunofluorescence studies. Persistent infections were readily established in LR cells following infection with either cloned, low passage wild-type reovirus or cloned, low passage reovirus isolated from carrier cultures. Reovirus isolated from carrier cultures grew much better than wild-type reovirus in LR cells and showed complete dominance over wild-type reovirus in coinfection experiments. Infection of LR cells with wild-type reovirus resulted in a low-level persistent infection with inefficient viral replication; these mutant L cells were partially resistant to infection with wild-type reovirus. Infection of the mutant L cells with virus isolated from the persistently infected cells resulted in a persistent infection accompanied with efficient viral replication. Infection of the original L cells with either wild-type reovirus or reovirus isolated from the persistently infected cells resulted in a lytic infection with no surviving cells. Thus the host cell plays a crucial role in the maintenance of persistent reovirus infection. There is apparently a coevolution of mutant L cells and mutant reovirus during persistent infection.