THE INITIATION OF VACCINIA INFECTION
THE INITIATION OF VACCINIA INFECTION
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6822(60)90103-3
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发表时间:
1960-01-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
CAIRNS, J
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作者:
CAIRNS, J
The initiation and progress of vaccina virus infection has been studied in tissue culture cells, using H3-thymidine and autora-diography to show the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and fluorescein-coupled antibody to show the synthesis of virus protein. Among the infecting particles in a multiple infected cell one particle, the initiator, accomplishes some critical step in the process of infection. Each infecting particle has a constant probability, in each time interval, of acting as initiator. Thus the likelihood that initiation has occurred in a cell depends on the number of particles in it; it does not depend on the position of the cell in the mitotic cycle. In addition there is for all cells a preparatory period of about 3 1/2 hrs. which must elapse before synthesis of virus DNA and surface antigen. Once initiation has occurred and the preparatory period is over, virus synthesis begins. Each infecting particle in a cell starts a separate center of virus synthesis in the cytoplasm. In these centers synthesis of DNA and virus antigen apparently start at about the same time. The act of initiation affects all the particles that are going to multiply in the cell all centers of virus synthesis in a cell start opening at the same time. The distribution among cells of particles that replicate is not random. This is probably because the cells vary in susceptibility to infection. With time the centers of synthesis become progressively larger until, if multiple, they fuse. During this time there is some stirring within the centers: DNA synthesized at one time later becomes distributed over a greater area than it originally occupied. At least up to the 10th hour the DNA is accessible to DNase. Spread of infection to neighboring cells is accompanied by spread of DNA from the cytoplasm of the parent cell. For at least the first 9 hrs. after infection, the infected cell continues to produce its own nuclear DNA.