Author:
Rentier B,Hooghe-Peters E L,Dubois-Dalcq M
Abstract
Virus-induced cell fusion has been studied after infection of Vero cells with measles virus. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy were combined with immunoperoxidase labeling of measles antigens to correlate viral production and distribution of virus-induced erythrocyte binding sites with progress of fusion. Release of infectious virus started before syncytia were detected and decreased while the number and size of syncytia were increasing. Most virions were seen budding from mononucleated cells or from the periphery of syncytia where cells were being recruited. Moving inward, the surfaces of syncytia where cells were being recruited. Moving inward, the surfaces of syncytia were covered with numerous ridges containing viral antigen, but few viral buds were seen, suggesting that syncytia might be sites of defective viral formation. Hemadsorption occurred predominantly within the confines of syncytia. Erythrocytes were scattered sparsely over immature syncytia but were densely packed in the center of mature syncytia. Active binding sites for erythrocytes were located on cell villi and ridges covered with measles antigens. Hemadsorption was completely inhibited in measles virus-infected cultures pretreated with virus-specific immunoglobulin G for 1 h at 4 degrees C. However, when these cultures were shifted to 37 degrees C, hemadsorbing sites were recovered at the periphery of enlarging syncytia. Virus-induced sites for erythrocyte adsorption were found to move centripetally on syncytium membranes as fusion progressed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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