Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, California
Abstract
Atherton, John
G. (University of Southern California, Los Angeles),
Sotiros G. Chaparas, Martha Cremer, and Irving Gordon
. Mechanism of polykaryocytosis associated with noncytopathic infection by measles virus. J. Bacteriol.
90:
213–219. 1965.—Infection with a measles virus variant resulted not only in formation of polykaryocytes (PK) but also in formation of multicellular immunofluorescent foci (IFF) in which no cytopathic effect could be detected. The ratio of IFF to PK changed from 27 to 4 during the first passage and remained 4 after a second passage. PK were plaques. Plaque assay was linear in the presence of IFF. To investigate the mechanism of PK formation, radioautography was done on cells pulse-labeled with tritiated thymidine before virus multiplication began. The results showed that PK were formed by fusion; there were no PK whose nuclei contained no label, and the proportion of labeled nuclei (32%) and distribution of grain counts was the same in PK as in uninvolved cells, ruling out nuclear replication without concomitant cytoplasmic membrane formation as the mechanism of formation of these PK. Early in PK development, neutral red uptake was markedly increased (“red” plaques). As PK matured, hyperchromicity disappeared (“white” plaques). This sequence provided an index of rate of evolution of PK. Rate of PK maturation was more rapid at 37 than at 32 C.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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