Morphogenesis of vesicular stomatitis virus: electron microscope observations with freeze-fracture techniques.
AUTOR(ES)
Brown, D T
RESUMO
The morphogenesis of vesicular stomatitis virus was examined using freeze-fracture techniques, and the results obtained were compared with those from previously published experiments carried out with influenza viruses and togaviruses. The process of conversion of the host cell plasma membrane into the vesicular stomatitis virus envelope was accompanied by a loss of the intramembranal particles abundant in cell membranes. Frequently a dense accumulation of intramembranal particles could be seen at the base of the developing virion, suggesting that these structures might play some role in the generation of viral envelope. In addition to the viral structures that were seen to develop in the classical fashion, with their long axis perpendicular to the cell surface, structures were also found that suggested the initiation of a process similar to budding, with the long axis of the viral capsid parallel to the plasma membrane. In this situation, as in the "perpendicular" process, intramembranal particles were excluded from the viral structure, and an accumulation of these particles could be seen adjacent to the developing viral membrane.
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