Attachment defect in mouse fibroblasts (L cells) persistently infected with Chlamydia psittaci.

AUTOR(ES)

Moulder, J W

RESUMO

Almost all the cells in populations of mouse fibroblasts (L cells) persistently infected with the 6BC strain of Chlamydia psittaci were immune to superinfection with high multiplicities of C. psittaci, whether or not the L cells contained visible chlamydial inclusions. As ascertained by experiments with 14C-labeled C. psittaci, immunity to superinfection resulted from the failure of added chlamydiae to attach to persistently infected host cells. However, when exogenous C. psittaci was introduced into persistently infected L cells by centrifuging the inoculum onto host cell monolayers or by pretreating the monolayers with diethylaminoethyl-dextran, these chlamydiae produced expected numbers of infectious progeny. Persistently infected L cells were associated in an unknown way with a C. psittaci population that entered the host cells only with the aid of centrifugation or pretreatment with diethylaminoethyl-dextran. Inclusion-free, persistently infected L cells appeared to present at least two separate hindrances to chlamydial activity: blockage of the attachment of exogenous elementary bodies to persistently infected host cells and prevention of the initiation of chlamydial multiplication by means of a normal developmental cycle in the absence of added C. psittaci.

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