Abstract
AbstractInfectious bronchitis virus (IBV), an avian coronavirus, can be isolated and cultured in tracheal organ cultures (TOCs), embryonated eggs and cell cultures. TOCs and embryonated eggs are commonly used for viral isolation but use of these is laborious and expensive. Cell cultures have been used only with IBV strains that have previously been adapted to grow under laboratory conditions, and not for primary isolation. Previous studies using the coronavirus porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) have suggested that foetal bovine serum (FBS), a common component of cell culture media, can inhibit the adsorption of coronaviruses onto the host cell membrane receptors. In the present study, the replication of IBV in primary chicken embryo kidney (CEK) cell cultures and the Leghorn hepatocellular carcinoma (LMH) cell line was examined using two different cell culture media, one containing FBS and the other containing yeast extract (YE). A reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assay was used to quantify viral RNA copies in cell lysates. The highest concentrations of viral genomes were observed when the cell culture medium did not contain FBS. Examination of the infectivity of virus grown in CEK cell cultures was examined by titration in embryonated chicken eggs, demonstrating that the cell lysate from CEK cell cultures in medium without FBS contained a higher median embryo infectious dose (EID50) than that from CEK cell cultures in medium containing FBS. These results suggest that improved replication of IBV in cell cultures can be achieved by the omission of FBS from the cell culture medium. This may enhance the potential for production of vaccines in cell culture and facilitate the isolation of emergent IBV strains in cell cultures.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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