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Colson P, Bader W, Fantini J, Dudouet P, Levasseur A, Pontarotti P, Devaux C, Raoult D. From viral democratic genomes to viral wild bunch of quasispecies. J Med Virol 2023; 95:e29209. [PMID: 37937701 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.29209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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The tremendous majority of RNA genomes from pathogenic viruses analyzed and deposited in databases are consensus or "democratic" genomes. They represent the genomes most frequently found in the clinical samples of patients but do not account for the huge genetic diversity of coexisting genomes, which is better described as quasispecies. A viral quasispecies is defined as the dynamic distribution of nonidentical but closely related mutants, variants, recombinant, or reassortant viral genomes. Viral quasispecies have collective behavior and dynamics and are the subject of internal interactions that comprise interference, complementation, or cooperation. In the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection, intrahost SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity was recently notably reported for immunocompromised, chronically infected patients, for patients treated with monoclonal antibodies targeting the viral spike protein, and for different body compartments of a single patient. A question that deserves attention is whether such diversity is generated postinfection from a clonal genome in response to selection pressure or is already present at the time of infection as a quasispecies. In the present review, we summarize the data supporting that hosts are infected by a "wild bunch" of viruses rather than by multiple virions sharing the same genome. Each virion in the "wild bunch" may have different virulence and tissue tropisms. As the number of viruses replicated during host infections is huge, a viral quasispecies at any time of infection is wide and is also influenced by host-specific selection pressure after infection, which accounts for the difficulty in deciphering and predicting the appearance of more fit variants and the evolution of epidemics of novel RNA viruses.
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- Philippe Colson
- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), Marseille, France
- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), Marseille, France
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- INSERM UMR_S 1072, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Department of Biological Sciences, Centre National de la Recherche 16 Scientifique (CNRS)-SNC5039, Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Department of Biological Sciences, Centre National de la Recherche 16 Scientifique (CNRS)-SNC5039, Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), Marseille, France
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Orgel LE. The chemical basis of mutation. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 27:289-346. [PMID: 4885008 DOI: 10.1002/9780470122723.ch6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Holland JJ. Transitions in understanding of RNA viruses: a historical perspective. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2006; 299:371-401. [PMID: 16568907 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26397-7_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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This chapter documents that RNA viruses have been known for over a century to be genetically variable. In recent decades, genetic and molecular analyses demonstrate that they form RNA quasispecies populations; the most rapidly mutating, highly variable and genetically versatile life forms on earth. Their enormous populations, rapid replication and extreme genetic plasticity can allow rates of evolution that exceed those of their eukaryotic host populations by millions-fold.
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- J J Holland
- Division of Biology and Institute for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego, CA, La Jolla, 92093, USA
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Yoshitake J, Akaike T, Akuta T, Tamura F, Ogura T, Esumi H, Maeda H. Nitric oxide as an endogenous mutagen for Sendai virus without antiviral activity. J Virol 2004; 78:8709-19. [PMID: 15280479 PMCID: PMC479088 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.16.8709-8719.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) may affect the genomes of various pathogens, and this mutagenesis is of particular interest for viral pathogenesis and evolution. Here, we investigated the effect of NO on viral replication and mutation. Exogenous or endogenous NO had no apparent antiviral effect on influenza A virus and Sendai virus. The mutagenic potential of NO was analyzed with Sendai virus fused to a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene (GFP-SeV). GFP-SeV was cultured in SW480 cells transfected with a vector expressing inducible NO synthase (iNOS). The mutation frequency of GFP-SeV was examined by measuring loss of GFP fluorescence of the viral plaques. GFP-SeV mutation frequency in iNOS-SW480 cells was much higher than that in parent SW480 cells and was reduced to the level of mutation frequency in the parent cells by treatment with an NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor. Immunocytochemistry showed generation of more 8-nitroguanosine in iNOS-SW480 cells than in SW480 cells without iNOS transfection. Authentic 8-nitroguanosine added exogenously to GFP-SeV-infected CV-1 cells increased the viral mutation frequency. Profiles of the GFP gene mutations induced by 8-nitroguanosine appeared to resemble those of mutations occurring in mouse lungs in vivo. A base substitution that was characteristic of both mutants (those induced by 8-nitroguanosine and those occurring in vivo) was a C-to-U transition. NO-dependent oxidative stress in iNOS-SW480 cells was also evident. Together, the results indicate unambiguously that NO has mutagenic potential for RNA viruses such as Sendai virus without affecting viral replication, possibly via 8-nitroguanosine formation and cellular oxidative stress.
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- Jun Yoshitake
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan
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Oxygen radicals and nitric oxide (NO) are generated in excess in a diverse array of microbial infections. Emerging concepts in free radical biology are now shedding light on the pathogenesis of various diseases. Free-radical induced pathogenicity in virus infections is of great importance, because evidence suggests that NO and oxygen radicals such as superoxide are key molecules in the pathogenesis of various infectious diseases. Although oxygen radicals and NO have an antimicrobial effect on bacteria and protozoa, they have opposing effects in virus infections such as influenza virus pneumonia and several other neurotropic virus infections. A high output of NO from inducible NO synthase, occurring in a variety of virus infections, produces highly reactive nitrogen oxide species, such as peroxynitrite, via interaction with oxygen radicals and reactive oxygen intermediates. The production of these various reactive species confers the diverse biological functions of NO. The reactive nitrogen species cause oxidative tissue injury and mutagenesis through oxidation and nitration of various biomolecules. The unique biological properties of free radicals are further illustrated by recent evidence showing accelerated viral mutation by NO-induced oxidative stress. NO appears to affect a host's immune response, with immunopathological consequences. For example, NO is reported to suppress type 1 helper T cell-dependent immune responses during infections, leading to type 2 helper T cell-biased immunological host responses. NO-induced immunosuppression may thus contribute to the pathogenesis of virus infections and help expansion of quasispecies population of viral pathogens. This review describes the pathophysiological roles of free radicals in the pathogenesis of viral disease and in viral mutation as related to both nonspecific inflammatory responses and immunological host reactions modulated by NO.
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- T Akaike
- Department of Microbiology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto 860-0811, Japan.
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Akaike T, Fujii S, Kato A, Yoshitake J, Miyamoto Y, Sawa T, Okamoto S, Suga M, Asakawa M, Nagai Y, Maeda H. Viral mutation accelerated by nitric oxide production during infection
in vivo. FASEB J 2000. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.14.10.1447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Takaaki Akaike
- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Department of Viral InfectionInstitute of Medical ScienceUniversity of Tokyo Tokyo 108-0071 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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- Department of Viral InfectionInstitute of Medical ScienceUniversity of Tokyo Tokyo 108-0071 Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology and Medicine IKumamoto University School of Medicine Kumamoto 860-0811 Japan
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Kiss I, Ros C, Kecskeméti S, Tanyi J, Klingeborn SB, Belák S. Observations on the quasispecies composition of three animal pathogenic RNA viruses. Acta Vet Hung 2000; 47:471-80. [PMID: 10641337 DOI: 10.1556/avet.47.1999.4.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The quasispecies nature of three animal pathogenic RNA viruses of field origin was examined by testing variants of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) originating from geographically different areas, feline coronavirus (FCoV) detected from the same animal by successive sampling, and rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) originating from successive outbreaks in the same geographic area. Clinical samples were investigated using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and ensuing single strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) assay. By the combination of these methods even subtle differences could be detected among the amplified fragments of the same virus species of different origin. FCoV proved to comprise the most and CSFV the less heterogeneous virus quasispecies. The results show that the combination of RT-PCR and SSCP provides novel and highly sensitive means for the characterisation of RNA viruses, with special regard to genome composition, evolution, features of pathogenicity and molecular epizootiology.
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- Veterinary Institute of Debrecen, Hungary.
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HORN EE, HERRIOTT RM. The mutagenic action of nitrous acid on "single-stranded" (denatured) Hemophilus transforming DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 48:1409-16. [PMID: 14448933 PMCID: PMC220967 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.48.8.1409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lee CH, Gilbertson DL, Novella IS, Huerta R, Domingo E, Holland JJ. Negative effects of chemical mutagenesis on the adaptive behavior of vesicular stomatitis virus. J Virol 1997; 71:3636-40. [PMID: 9094637 PMCID: PMC191512 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.5.3636-3640.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Changes in adaptability of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) upon treatment with chemical mutagens have been investigated. Results showed no improvement in virus viability or adaptability at any given level of mutagenesis. In fact, increasing inhibition of virus production and adaptability was observed with increasing levels of mutagenesis. This was true for all tested VSV variants replicating either in changing or constant host cell environments. Results also showed that mutagen-treated RNA virus populations which had undergone severe fitness declines were able to recover lost fitness completely after several large-population passages in BHK21, cells. The present findings illustrate the highly optimized states of RNA viruses and their potential to adapt readily. These results are significant for the possible development of specific antiviral agents designed to be mutagenic.
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- C H Lee
- Department of Biology and Institute of Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
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RNA virus mutation frequencies generally approach maximum tolerable levels, and create complex indeterminate quasispecies populations in infected hosts. This usually favors extreme rates of evolution, although periods of relative stasis or equilibrium, punctuated by rapid change may also occur (as for other life forms). Because complex quasispecies populations of RNA viruses arise probabilistically and differentially in every host, their compositions and exact roles in disease pathogenesis are indeterminate and their directions of evolution, and the nature and timing of "new" virus outbreaks are unpredictable.
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- J J Holland
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0116
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Holland JJ, Domingo E, de la Torre JC, Steinhauer DA. Mutation frequencies at defined single codon sites in vesicular stomatitis virus and poliovirus can be increased only slightly by chemical mutagenesis. J Virol 1990; 64:3960-2. [PMID: 1695258 PMCID: PMC249691 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.8.3960-3962.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Mutagenesis by a variety of chemical mutagens conferred only 1.1- to 2.8-fold increases in mutation frequencies at defined single base sites in vesicular stomatitis virus and poliovirus.
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- J J Holland
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Steinhauer DA, Holland JJ. Direct method for quantitation of extreme polymerase error frequencies at selected single base sites in viral RNA. J Virol 1986; 57:219-28. [PMID: 3001347 PMCID: PMC252718 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.57.1.219-228.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Methods are described which allow direct quantitation and sequence analysis of base substitution levels at predetermined single nucleotide positions in cloned pools of an RNA virus genome or in its RNA transcripts in vitro. Base substitution frequencies for vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) at one highly conserved site examined were reproducible and extremely high, averaging between 10(-4) and 4 X 10(-4) substitutions per base incorporated at this single site. If polymerase error frequencies averaged as high at all other sites in the 11-kilobase VSV genome, then every member of a cloned VSV population would differ from most other genomes in that clone at a number of different nucleotide positions. The preservation of a consensus sequence in such variable RNA virus genomes then could only result from strong biological selection (in a single host or multihost environment) for the most fit and competitive representatives of extremely heterogeneous virus populations.
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Smith GW, Hightower LE. Revertant analysis of a temperature-sensitive mutant of Newcastle disease virus with defective glycoproteins: implication of the fusion glycoprotein in cell killing and isolation of a neuraminidase-deficient hemagglutinating virus. J Virol 1982; 42:659-68. [PMID: 6896347 PMCID: PMC256891 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.42.2.659-668.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Biological and molecular properties of a temperature-sensitive mutant (C1) of Newcastle disease virus and its revertants were analyzed. C1 exhibited three temperature-sensitive alterations (plaque formation, virion assembly, and cytopathogenicity) and several defects which were also present at the permissive temperature. C1 virions contained low amounts of hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycopeptides and consequently were deficient in hemagglutinating and neuraminidase activities. These virions also contained defective fusion glycoproteins which rendered them poorly hemolytic and slow to penetrate cultured chicken embryo cells. The biological activities of the membrane glycoproteins were recovered sequentially in a series of plaque-forming revertants. The coreversion of hemolysis, membrane-penetrating activities, and cytopathogenicity in the first-step revertant (S1) suggested that fusion glycoproteins were major contributors to cellular destruction. This revertant also provided evidence of a role for fusion glycoproteins in virion assembly. From S1 we isolated a large-plaque-forming revertant (L1) that assembled wild-type amounts of biologically active hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoproteins into virions. Although it was normal for hemagglutination, L1 had less than 3% of the neuraminidase activity of the wild type, demonstrating that these two activities can be uncoupled genetically. The neuraminidase deficiency of L1 did not impair its virulence in ovo or its reproduction in cultured cells.
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RNA viruses show high mutation frequencies partly because of a lack of the proofreading enzymes that assure fidelity of DNA replication. This high mutation frequency is coupled with high rates of replication reflected in rates of RNA genome evolution which can be more than a millionfold greater than the rates of the DNA chromosome evolution of their hosts. There are some disease implications for the DNA-based biosphere of this rapidly evolving RNA biosphere.
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Peeples ME, Bratt MA. UV irradiation analysis of complementation between, and replication of, RNA-negative temperature-sensitive mutants of Newcastle disease virus. J Virol 1982; 41:965-73. [PMID: 7097855 PMCID: PMC256833 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.41.3.965-973.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Random UV irradiation-induced lesions destroy the infectivity of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) by blocking downstream transcription from the single viral promoter. The nucleocapsid-associated polypeptides most likely to be involved in RNA synthesis are located at the extreme ends of the genome: NP and P are promoter proximal genes, and L is the most distal gene. We attempted to order the two temperature-sensitive (ts) RNA-negative (RNA-) mutant groups of NDV by determining the UV target sizes for the complementing abilities of mutants A1 and E1. After UV irradiation, E1 was unable to complement A1, a result compatible with the A mutation lying in the L gene. In contrast, after UV irradiation, A1 was able to complement E1 for both virus production and viral protein synthesis, with a target size most consistent with the E mutation lying in the P gene. UV-irradiated virus was unable to replicate as indicated by its absence in the yields of multiply infected cells, either as infectious virus or as particles with complementing activity. After irradiation, ts mutant B1 delta P, with a non-ts mutation affecting the electrophoretic mobility of the P protein, complemented E1 in a manner similar to A1, but it did not amplify the expression of delta P in infected cells. This too is consistent with irradiated virus being unable to replicate despite the presence of the components needed for replication of E1. At high UV doses, A1 was able to complement E1 in a different, UV-resistant manner, probably by direct donation of input polypeptides. Multiplicity reactivation has previously been observed at high-multiplicity infection by UV-irradiation paramyxoviruses. In this case, virions which are noninfectious because they lack a protein component may be activated by a protein from irradiation virions.
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Kowal KJ, Youngner JS. Induction of interferon by temperature-sensitive mutants of Newcastle disease virus. Virology 1978; 90:90-102. [PMID: 568850 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(78)90336-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Strauss EG, Lenches EM, Strauss JH. Mutants of sindbis virus. I. Isolation and partial characterization of 89 new temperature-sensitive mutants. Virology 1976; 74:154-68. [PMID: 62444 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(76)90137-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Simon EH, Kung S, Koh TT, Brandman P. Interferon-sensitive mutants of mengovirus. I. Isolation and biological characterization. Virology 1976; 69:727-36. [PMID: 176792 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(76)90501-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Scheid A, Choppin PW. Protease activation mutants of sendai virus. Activation of biological properties by specific proteases. Virology 1976; 69:265-77. [PMID: 174294 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(76)90213-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Preble OT, Youngner JS. Selection of temperature-sensitive mutants during persistent infection: role in maintenance of persistent Newcastle disease virus infections of L cells. J Virol 1973; 12:481-91. [PMID: 4795831 PMCID: PMC356654 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.12.3.481-491.1973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Virus mutants (NDV(pi)) recovered from L cells persistently infected with Newcastle disease virus (NDV, Herts strain) are temperature-sensitive (ts) at 43 C, although the wild-type virus (NDV(o)) which initiated the persistent infection replicates normally at that temperature. To study the relationship between the ts marker of NDV(pi) and the other properties which distinguish this virus from NDV(o), NDV(pi) ts(+) revertants were selected at the nonpermissive temperature and NDV(o) ts mutants were generated by treating NDV(o) with nitrous acid. Spontaneously-occurring ts mutants in the Herts NDV population were also isolated. The different virus populations were characterized with regard to plaque size, virulence for eggs, and thermal stability of infectivity, hemagglutinin, and neuraminidase. The NDV(pi) ts(+) revertants, although no longer temperature-sensitive, retained NDV(pi) properties, whereas both spontaneously-occurring and mutagen-induced ts mutants remained wild-type in their other properties. These findings showed that the properties which characterized NDV(pi) were independent of the ts marker. However, the ts marker and the other markers of NDV(pi) were coselected during the persistent infection, and the combination of those markers appeared to be important in the outcome of NDV infection of L cells. NDV(pi) replicated productively in L cells, whereas NDV(o), the NDV(pi) ts(+) revertants, and the spontaneously-occurring ts mutants all yielded covert infections in L cells. The role of the selection of ts mutants in persistent infection was confirmed as follows: L cells were persistently infected with NDV(pi) ts(+) revertants and NDV(o) ts mutants. Virus recovered from the persistently infected cultures after eight cell passages was always temperature-sensitive and of smaller plaque size than the parental virus in chicken embryo cell cultures. Similar results were obtained with virus recovered from L-cell cultures persistently infected with two other velogenic strains of NDV, the Texas-GB and Kansas-Man strains. These results strongly suggest that selection of ts mutants during the persistent infection was not random and played a role in establishment or maintenance of the persistent infection, or both.
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Laver W. The Polypeptides of Influenza Viruses. Adv Virus Res 1973. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(08)60819-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Clark HF, Koprowski H. Isolation of temperature-sensitive conditional lethal mutants of "fixed" rabies virus. J Virol 1971; 7:295-300. [PMID: 5550101 PMCID: PMC356117 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.7.3.295-300.1971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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In an attempt to induce temperature-sensitive (ts) conditional lethal mutants of rabies virus, stocks of a plaque-purified substrain of strain CVS fixed rabies virus were subjected to mutagenesis by HNO(2), 5-fluorouracil, or 5-azacytidine. It was necessary to prepare virus stocks from clones of mutagenized virus selected at random and to test subsequently each stock for possible ts characteristics by measuring its relative capacity for growth at permissive (33 C) and nonpermissive (40.5 C) temperatures. Five ts mutants were detected in tests of 161 clones of mutagenized virus. Each of the mutants exhibited a remarkably low incidence of reversion and little demonstrable "leakiness." One of the five ts mutants (ts2), which formed formed very small plaques, and another (ts1), which formed plaques of only slightly reduced size, were further characterized. Virus ts1 was more thermostable at 40.5 C than the parental virus, but the ts2 mutant was unchanged in this respect. The ts1 virus exhibited normal pathogenicity for mice, but ts2 virus caused a very irregular death pattern. Both deaths and survivors immune to rabies virus challenge were noted in all groups of mice inoculated with ts2 virus, regardless of the virus dose.
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Maes R. Attenuation of foot-and-mouth disease virus by chemical means. ARCHIV FUR DIE GESAMTE VIRUSFORSCHUNG 1970; 29:63-76. [PMID: 4318111 DOI: 10.1007/bf01253881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Simpson RW, Hirst GK. Temperature-sensitive mutants of influenza A virus: isolation of mutants and preliminary observations on genetic recombination and complementation. Virology 1968; 35:41-9. [PMID: 5652680 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(68)90303-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Schloer GM, Hanson RP. Relationship of plaque size and virulence for chickens of 14 representative Newcastle disease virus strains. J Virol 1968; 2:40-7. [PMID: 4911841 PMCID: PMC375576 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.2.1.40-47.1968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Ability of 14 Newcastle disease virus strains to produce large plaques was related to virulence for chickens. Plaque-size comparisons were made under standard conditions in chick embryo cell monolayers. All plaque-producing strains showed a range of plaque sizes modified to a degree by the overlay medium used. An increase in size was found for most strains under methyl-cellulose overlay medium. Markedly larger plaques were found under this medium for both Calif-RO and Calif-CG strains. Heterogeneity in plaque size was most pronounced in velogenic (high virulence) strains. Only populations of small plaques were found in mesogenic (intermediate virulence) strains, and plaques were rarely found in lentogenic (low virulence) strains. Statistical analysis showed that the plaque size of velogenic strains differed significantly from mesogenic strains. None of the 11 plaque-producing strains had a normal distribution of plaque sizes, owing primarily to the presence of different genotypes within the plaquing population of a strain. This was demonstrated by derivation of clones from two of the strains. The populations of the large (Herts L) and small (Herts S) clear plaque clones derived from Eng-Herts were homogenous and distinct from one another on the basis of plaque size. Herts L was more virulent than Herts S. Although Herts L became more heterogenous in respect to plaque size upon repeated passage in embryonated eggs, no decrease in virulence of the strain was observed.
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Rodriguez JE, Ter Meulen V, Henle W. Studies on persistent infections of tissue culture. VI. Reversible changes in Newcastle disease virus populations as a result of passage in L cells or chick embryos. J Virol 1967; 1:1-9. [PMID: 5623955 PMCID: PMC375498 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.1.1.1-9.1967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Populations of the Victoria strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV), reisolated from persistently infected L-cell cultures and passed twice in the embryonated hen's egg (NDV(L-E-2)), were found to differ strikingly from the original, chick embryo-adapted virus (NDV(o)). After exposure of L cells to NDV(o) at high multiplicities of infection, all cells became abortively infected; they produced only small aggregates of viral antigen and few, if any, infectious virus particles, but they yielded large amounts of interferon. No cytopathic effects (CPE) were noted, and the cultures survived readily as viral carriers. In contrast, NDV(L-E-2) yielded under similar conditions large quantities of viral antigen and infectious virus particles, but no detectable interferon, and the cultures were rapidly destroyed. This change in "virulence" was at least partially reversible by further serial passages of NDV(L-E-2) in chick embryos, as was evident from a consecutive decrease in CPE with a concomitant increasingly rapid recovery of the L-cell cultures, gradually diminishing yields of infectious viral progeny, and the returning of a capacity to induce interferon synthesis. Thus, NDV(L-E-16) resembled NDV(o) in many aspects, except for a less striking reduction in its ability to replicate in L cells. Although a selection of viral variants under the given sets of conditions has not been entirely excluded, the establishment of "avirulence" appears to be largely explained by a gradual accumulation of noninfectious, interferon-inducing components in the course of serial passages in the embryonated hen's egg, and the acquisition of "virulence" by a loss of these components. The evidence is as follows. (i) By a step-wise decrease in the dose of virus and restriction of the analyses to the first infectious cycle, a multiplicity of infection was ultimately reached for all "avirulent" populations at which infected cells produced normal yields of infectious viral progeny; i.e., the interferon-inducing components were diluted to noneffective levels. The lowest multiplicity which resulted in a measurable reduction in infectious virus replication was also the last one to induce detectable interferon synthesis. (ii) All viral clones derived from "avirulent" populations behaved like NDV(L-E-2) rather than like the parent viral suspensions, except that some of them elicited small amounts of interferon in L cells. The interferon-inducing components were reduced or lost in the cloning procedures. The nature of the interferon-inducing components has not been established. These components, which were neutralized by rabbit sera against "virulent" NDV(L-E-2) populations, may represent largely inactive or incomplete virus particles; however, the infectious virus-hemagglutinin ratios of "avirulent" populations were mostly of an order similar to those of "virulent" populations. The interferon-inducing components aborted the infectious process in cells simultaneously invaded by infectious virus particles. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Burge BW, Pfefferkorn ER. Isolation and characterization of conditional-lethal mutants of Sindbis virus. Virology 1966; 30:204-13. [PMID: 5919228 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(66)90096-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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