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Continuous cultivation of peripheral blood lymphocytes from healthy sheep was carried out in vitro with the help of human recombinant interleukin-2. Lymphocytes were concurrently cultivated with the lethally X-rayed BLV-producing FLK culture cells. Electron microscopy and dot-blot hybridization established that sheep peripheral blood lymphocytes were infected with BLV and a full cycle of replication takes place in them. Infection of sheep leukocytes in vitro can be used to study the mechanisms of leukogenesis in vitro.
Mol Gen Mikrobiol Virusol 1989 Jan
PMID:[Infection of peripheral blood lymphocytes in sheep with bovine leukemia virus in vitro]. 254 21

Cultures of adherent and non-adherent bovine blood mononuclear cells were infected with bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 10. Production of BTV proteins in mononuclear cell cultures was detected by immune precipitation of viral proteins from [35S]methionine-labelled extracts of these cells, by immunofluorescence staining of cells using monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to BTV proteins VP7 and NS2, and by flow cytometry with MAbs to VP2, VP7, NS1 and NS2. BTV-infected cells were most numerous in cultures of adherent mononuclear cells; infected cells were initially identified as monocytes on the basis of their morphology, and size and scatter characteristics as determined by analysis with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS). The majority of adherent mononuclear cells with these scatter characteristics were confirmed to be monocytes by FACS analysis with a MAb specific for bovine monocytes. Identification of BTV-infected adherent mononuclear cells as monocytes was further established by double immunofluorescent labelling, as infected adherent cells reacted with the MAb specific for bovine monocytes, and with another MAb specific for class II antigen. Infection of adherent mononuclear cells was also confirmed by transmission electron microscopy, as BTV virions and tubules were present in lysates of cultures of BTV-infected adherent mononuclear cells and within the cytoplasm of adherent cells. In contrast, BTV proteins were detected in few cells identified as lymphocytes on the basis of their scatter characteristics, and mean fluorescence of such cells was considerably less than that of BTV-infected monocytes. Viraemia persisted until 35 days after inoculation of a colostrum-deprived calf inoculated with BTV. Virus was isolated from blood mononuclear cells at 1 week after infection of the calf, but not thereafter. BTV infection of blood mononuclear cells was demonstrated until 9 days after inoculation by indirect immunofluorescence staining of mononuclear cells. In contrast, virus was consistently isolated from erythrocyte-enriched preparations throughout viraemia in titres comparable to those in whole blood. These results indicate that although bovine monocytes are readily infected in vitro with this strain of BTV serotype 10, infection of blood monocytes is unlikely to be responsible for the prolonged viraemia that consistently occurs in BTV-infected cattle.
J Gen Virol 1989 Jul
PMID:Bluetongue virus infection of bovine monocytes. 254 59

Infection of rat cells, Schwannoma RN2, hepatoma HTC or myoblast L6, with the murine coronavirus JHM strain results in a persistent infection characterized by the release of virus over an extended period of time with a limited cytopathology. Several stages of the viral replication cycle have been examined in these cells in comparison to those in mouse L2 cells, which are totally permissive to JHM infection. Although the rat cells bound as much virus as the mouse cells. Their ability to internalize it was 40-fold less efficient than the mouse cells. This lower internalization efficiency was not enhanced by pH shock of infected cells, but was by treatment with polyethylene glycol. In all cell types there appeared to be no major differences in the ability of the internalized virus to replicate the viral RNA as determined by slot-blot analysis with a radiolabelled viral cDNA. A similar genetic mechanism appears to be operative in the lines because somatic cell hybrids formed between these lines in various combinations were also deficient in the ability to internalize bound virus. Taken together these results imply that rat cell lines in general share a common deficiency in their inability to internalize murine coronaviruses efficiently. This low efficiency in viral internalization may explain in part the ability of these lines to sustain persistent infections.
J Gen Virol 1989 Jul
PMID:Several rat cell lines share a common defect in their inability to internalize murine coronaviruses efficiently. 254 62

We have analysed the expression of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) proteins in virus-infected freshly explanted mouse peritoneal macrophages (resistant to virus replication), macrophages aged in vitro (permissive for virus replication) and freshly explanted macrophages from mice treated with antibody to interferon (IFN) alpha/beta (permissive for VSV replication). Our data showed that some VSV proteins (i.e. N/NS and G) were synthesized in virus-infected (1 p.f.u/cell) freshly harvested macrophages at early times after infection (3 to 6 h); the expression of such viral proteins was subsequently inhibited at 18 h post-infection. In contrast, a progressive increase in the expression of VSV proteins was observed in the macrophages aged in vitro and infected with VSV at 1 p.f.u./cell. Infection with a higher m.o.i. (16 p.f.u./cell) resulted in similar viral protein electrophoresis patterns for both aged macrophages and freshly explanted macrophages. Even at low m.o.i. a marked and progressive expression of all VSV proteins was observed in freshly harvested macrophages from mice treated with antibody to mouse IFN-alpha/beta. Higher levels of oligo-2',5'-adenylate synthetase (2-5AS) were found in freshly harvested macrophages than in either aged macrophages or those from mice treated with antibody to IFN. No dsRNA-dependent 67K protein kinase was detected in freshly harvested macrophages or peritoneal cells from untreated mice or mice treated with poly(rI).poly(rC) or Newcastle disease virus. The following conclusions can be drawn from these results. Low levels of spontaneous IFN-alpha/beta are responsible for the time-dependent inhibition of VSV protein synthesis in virus-infected freshly harvested macrophages; high levels of 2-5AS (in the absence of detectable levels of 67K protein kinase) appear to correlate with the progressive inhibition of VSV proteins; this natural antiviral state is highly effective only at low m.o.i.
J Gen Virol 1989 Jul
PMID:Studies on the mechanism of the interferon-mediated antiviral state to vesicular stomatitis virus in resting mouse peritoneal macrophages. 254 69

Infection of the human B cell line JOK-1 with herpes simplex virus type 1 persisted over a period of more than 12 months (to date). Although limited cytopathic effects were seen, viral infection did not lead to extinction of the culture. Infectious centre assays, performed at various times after infection, revealed that only a small proportion of cells (1 to 10%) produced infectious virus particles. However, immunofluorescence studies showed that at any given time considerably more cells than calculated by infectious centre assays contained the immediate early viral protein ICP4 and expressed viral glycoproteins. These observations were confirmed by in situ hybridization analyses which revealed the presence of viral DNA even in cells not producing infectious particles. Since no evidence for the involvement of interferon could be found, some other so far unknown intrinsic property of the cells must be responsible for the restriction of virus replication and/or maturation.
J Gen Virol 1989 Jul
PMID:Persistent replication of herpes simplex virus type 1 in JOK-1 cells. 254 70

Infection of L-A9 cells with Marituba virus produces a severe inhibition of protein synthesis. This inhibition is temporally correlated with an increase in the intracellular Na+ concentration and a decrease in the intracellular K+ concentration. However, in Marituba virus-infected Aedes albopictus cells the intracellular level of Na+ and K+ ions and protein synthesis remained unaltered. Incubation of both cell types at high NaCl concentration facilitated the translation of viral RNA whereas the cellular protein synthesis was inhibited. Using a hypotonic medium, the opposite was found. Results are discussed in terms of a possible involvement of these ions in the viral translational process.
J Gen Virol 1989 Dec
PMID:Na+ and K+ concentration and regulation of protein synthesis in L-A9 and Aedes albopictus cells infected with Marituba virus (Bunyaviridae). 260 44

Treatment of female BALB/c mice with oestradiol rendered them susceptible to vaginal colonization by three of four different strains of Mycoplasma hominis. Overall, the organisms were recovered persistently from the vagina of 68 (87%) of 78 of these mice. Strain TO mice given one of the strains were at least susceptible, all of ten becoming colonized and larger numbers of organisms being recovered. The hormone arrested the reproductive cycle in the oestrous phase, characterized by non-nucleated, cornified vaginal epithelial cells. In contrast, M. hominis organisms were isolated transiently from only seven (10.5%) of 66 BALB/c mice not treated with oestradiol, after intravaginal inoculation; treatment with progesterone, which induced the dioestrous phase of the cycle, did not render any of 10 BALB/c mice susceptible to vaginal colonization. The minimum number of organisms (2.5 x 10(5)) of one strain of M. hominis and the minimum dose of oestradiol (0.05 mg) required to induce persistent colonization were established. Vaginal colonization persisted for more than 200 d in some mice, the numbers of organisms recovered ranging between 10(1) and 10(8). At autopsy there was evidence of spread to the uterine horns and ovaries, and also to the oropharynx, of some animals but not to other organs. Infection was not associated with a polymorphonuclear leucocyte response in the vagina or elsewhere, but a fourfold serum antibody response to M. hominis, measured by the metabolism-inhibition technique, was detected in almost half of the mice tested.
J Gen Microbiol 1989 Oct
PMID:Oestradiol-induced infection of the genital tract of female mice by Mycoplasma hominis. 263 70

The expression of CD4 antigen on the surface of LeuM3-positive human blood monocytes was found to be variable with 65 to 90% of cells from 46 normal human volunteers being positive by dual staining flow cytometry. When monocytes adhered to plastic (but not when cultured on Teflon), a marked decrease in CD4 expression was observed between 1 and 24 h post-adherence. CD4 expression could not be detected in macrophages adhered to plastic for 5 days by using four anti-CD4 monoclonal antibodies in flow cytometry or direct immunofluorescence. Conversely an increasing proportion of adherent cells expressed LeuM3 and OKM5 surface antigens over the 5 days. CD4 mRNA levels were measured by slot-blot and Northern hybridization, and total cellular CD4 protein levels by immunoprecipitation. Both cellular mRNA and CD4 levels remained constant throughout the 5 day period but membrane CD4 protein levels were greatly reduced indicating that the down-regulation of CD4 was post-translational. Infection with two of six fresh human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) isolates showed different kinetic patterns when tested on purified monocytes recently adhered to plastic and macrophages adherent for 5 days. HIV antigen and reverse transcriptase levels in infected monocyte cultures remained high for 3 to 4 weeks before detachment and necrosis of the cells occurred. Infection of macrophages generated much lower levels of antigen and reverse transcriptase which declined to very low or undetectable levels over 2 weeks, leaving persisting viable macrophages. One week after infection HIV nucleic acid was detected in 69 +/- 7% of monocytes and 6 +/- 3% of macrophages by in situ hybridization. Blocking experiments with anti-Leu3a monoclonal antibody suggested that HIV infection of 5 day adherent macrophages occurred mainly by a mechanism other than binding to CD4.
J Gen Virol 1989 Oct
PMID:Variations in CD4 expression by human monocytes and macrophages and their relationships to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. 267 36

Infection of chickens by a virulent avian influenza A virus, A/turkey/Ont/7732/66 (H5N9), was associated with a severe lymphopenia. High titres of infectious virus were found in lymphoid tissues early in infection and were accompanied by severe damage to the lymphocyte populations as demonstrated by histopathological examination. Non-lymphoid cell populations in these tissues were unaffected, as were other organs examined. The viral nucleoprotein was localized by immunoperoxidase staining to lymphocytes in affected tissues early in infection.
J Gen Virol 1989 Feb
PMID:Destruction of lymphocytes by a virulent avian influenza A virus. 273 95

The gene encoding the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein C (gC) was isolated and cloned into a vaccinia virus insertion vector, and the resulting vaccinia-gC vector was used to construct a recombinant vaccinia virus that expressed gC (VVgC5). Infection of cells with VVgC5 resulted in cell surface expression of authentic HSV-1 gC. HSV-1 gC-specific neutralizing antibodies were produced in VVgC5-immunized mice, and lymphocytes exhibited an HSV-1-specific proliferation response in vitro following infection. More importantly, VVgC5-immunized mice were resistant to subsequent lethal HSV-1 challenge.
J Gen Virol 1989 Oct
PMID:Recombinant vaccinia virus expressing the herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein C protects mice against herpes simplex virus challenge. 279 72


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