Infective Virus Substructure from Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
AUTOR(ES)
Brown, F.
RESUMO
Treatment of suspensions of vesicular stomatitis virus with Tween-ether results in a rapid and considerable loss of infectivity (ca. 4 logs in 2 min), but the residual infectivity is comparatively stable to further treatment with ether. The infectivity remaining after the short exposure to Tween-ether is not due to virus for the following reasons. (i) It is much less infective for tissue cultures than for mice, whereas the intact virion is equally infective for both hosts. (ii) The residual infectivity is much less stable than virus infectivity in both sucrose and tartrate gradients. (iii) Virus immune serum does not neutralize its activity. (iv) The infectivity is associated with material which sediments further in sucrose gradients and has a greater buoyant density in tartrate gradients than the virion. Experiments with 32P-labeled virion showed that the infective substructure contains ribonucleic acid with the same sedimentation characteristics as that extracted from the virion. Electron microscopy shows that the infective component has the same overall bullet-like structure as the virion but lacks the outer envelope and fringe structure.
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