Affiliation:
1. Departments of Neurology
2. Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Simian varicella virus (SVV) is a neurotropic alphaherpesvirus of monkeys that is a model for varicella pathogenesis and latency. Like human varicella-zoster virus (VZV), SVV causes chicken pox (varicella), becomes latent in ganglia along the entire neuraxis, and reactivates to produce shingles (zoster). We developed macroarrays to determine the extent of viral transcription from all 70 predicted SVV open reading frames (ORFs) in infected cells in tissue culture. Cloned fragments (200 to 400 bp) from the 5′ and 3′ ends of each ORF were PCR amplified, quantitated, spotted onto nylon membranes, and fixed by UV cross-linking. Using a cDNA probe prepared from poly(A)
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RNA extracted from SVV-infected Vero cells at the height of the cytopathic effect (3 days after infection) and chemiluminescence for detection, transcripts corresponding to all SVV ORFs were identified. The abundance of each SVV transcript was compared with that previously demonstrated for VZV in infected tissue culture cells.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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8 articles.
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