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Administration of pyrene-linked fatty acids and lipids to cultured cells or an enveloped (vesicular stomatitis) virus induced photosensitization which, following irradiation with a long ultra-violet light (LUV), resulted in killing of the cells and loss of the infectivity of the virus with the following specific effects. (i) LUV illumination of the pyrene-sphingomyelin administered cultured skin fibroblasts derived from normal individuals and patients with Niemann-Pick disease permitted selective killing of the latter. (ii) Similarly LUV illumination of pyrenedodecanoic acid (P12) incubates of leukemic cell lines mixed with human bone marrow cells permitted selective killing of the former. (iii) LUV illumination of P12 incubates of vesicular stomatitis virus decreased the infectivity of the virus by up to 12 logs.
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PMID:Photosensitization of cultured cells and viruses by pyrene lipids. 196 37

A fluorescent derivative of cerebroside sulfate, pyrene-dodecanoyl sphingosylgalactosylsulfate (P12-CS) was incorporated into the envelope of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). When the P12-CS-containing virus was incubated for 24 h with skin fibroblasts, up to 40% of the sulfatide was located in the cells--a value at least 10 fold greater than that observed using sulfatide suspensions without virus. In a similar experiment, in which the 24 h 'pulse' was followed by a 48 h 'chase', about 15-20% of the virus-associated fluorescence was recovered in the skin fibroblasts. Of the latter, about one-third was present as desulfated degradation products of P12-CS. The high uptake and degradation of the virus-associated sulfatide by intact skin fibroblasts suggested that enveloped viruses could be used for introducing other lipids into cells. This could be utilized for studying lipid catabolism and diagnosing lipid storage disorders in intact living cells.
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PMID:Uptake and degradation of virus-associated fluorescent sulfatide by skin fibroblasts. 215 22

We are using fluorescent endogenous phospholipids in virus membranes to study the factors that promote fusion on interaction with receptor membranes. To this end, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) grown in baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells was biologically labeled with fluorescent lipids, primarily phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, derived from pyrene fatty acids. The pyrene lipids present in the virions showed a fluorescence spectrum typical of pyrene with an intense monomer and a broad excimer. Interaction of pyrene lipid labeled VSV with serum lipoproteins led to a spontaneous fast transfer of the small amount of pyrene fatty acids present in the envelope (t1/2 less than or equal to 7 min), followed by a considerably slower transfer of pyrene phospholipids from the membrane of the virions (t1/2 greater than or equal to 12 h). Incubation of pyrene phospholipid labeled VSV with phosphatidylserine small unilamellar vesicles resulted in fusion at low pH (pH 5.0) as measured by the change in the excimer/monomer fluorescence intensity ratio. Fusion kinetics was rapid, reaching a plateau after 4 min at pH 5.0 and 37 degrees C. Only negligible fusion was noted at neutral pH or at 4 degrees C. Fully infectious virions labeled biologically with fluorescent lipids provide a useful tool for studying mechanisms of cell-virus interactions and neutralization of viral infectivity by specific monoclonal antibodies reactive with viral membrane glycoprotein.
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PMID:Pyrene phospholipid as a biological fluorescent probe for studying fusion of virus membrane with liposomes. 283 56

In order to investigate the mode of interaction of peripheral membrane proteins with the lipid bilayer, the basic (pI approximately 9.1) matrix (M) protein of vesicular stomatitis virus was reconstituted with small unilamellar vesicles (SUV) containing phospholipids with acidic head groups. The lateral organization of lipids in such reconstituted membranes was probed by fluorescent phospholipid analogues labeled with pyrene fatty acids. The excimer/monomer (E/M) fluorescence intensity ratios of the intrinsic pyrene phospholipid probes were measured at various temperatures in M protein reconstituted SUV composed of 50 mol % each of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol (DPPG). The M protein showed relatively small effects on the E/M ratio either in the gel or in the liquid-crystalline phase. However, during the gel to liquid-crystalline phase transition, the M protein induced a large increase in the E/M ratio due to phase separation of lipids into a neutral DPPC-rich phase and DPPG domains presumably bound to M protein. Similar phase separation of bilayer lipids was also observed in the M protein reconstituted with mixed lipid vesicles containing one low-melting lipid component (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylcholine or 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylglycerol) or a low mole percent of cholesterol. The self-quenching of 4-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (NBD) fluorescence, as a measure of lipid clustering in the bilayer, was also studied in M protein reconstituted DPPC-DPPG vesicles containing 5 mol % NBD-phosphatidylethanolamine (NBD-PE). The quenching of NBD-PE was enhanced at least 2-fold in M protein reconstituted vesicles at temperatures within or below the phase transition.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effect of the vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein on the lateral organization of lipid bilayers containing phosphatidylglycerol: use of fluorescent phospholipid analogues. 300 59

Several hybrid human interferons have now been constructed by recombinant DNA techniques. Two of these hybrid interferons, IFN-alpha AD(Bgl) and IFN-alpha AD(Pvu) differ by only three amino acids, but IFN-alpha AD(Bgl) was fifteen times more potent than IFN-alpha AD(Pvu) in antiviral activity towards infection of mouse L-929 cells by vesicular stomatitis virus. Only the hybrid with the greater antiviral activity in the mouse depressed cytochrome P-450, aminopyrine N-demethylase and benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase in the liver. These experiments demonstrate that minor changes in amino acid structure not only have a major effect on the antiviral properties of interferon but also influence the ability of interferon to depress cytochrome P-450 in the liver.
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PMID:Relationship between the antiviral effects of interferons and their abilities to depress cytochrome P-450. 650 41