Affiliation:
1. Virus Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Abstract
An electron microscopical and biochemical examination of the properties of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPN) and of its ribonucleic acid (RNA) was made. The buoyant density of IPN in CsCl was found to be 1.33 g/cm
3
. Electron microscopical examination of the banded virus revealed structures similar in size (74 nm) and shape to reoviruses but lacking a characteristic inner capsid structure. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of IPN-RNA revealed a single non-segmented component of molecular weight 3.2 × 10
6
. Its susceptibility to ribonuclease, base composition, and resistance to thermal denaturation indicated a single-stranded RNA structure. However, its sedimentation behavior (16
S
) independent of ionic strength in sucrose gradients, partial solubility in 2
m
LiCl, and ribonuclease resistance in the presence of Mg
2+
suggest an unusual secondary structure of unknown nature. The accumulated data indicate that IPN virus does not belong to either the picornavirus or reovirus groups and may represent a new group of viruses.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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