Biological and biochemical studies on the inactivation of avian oncoviruses by ultraviolet irradiation

Journal Article · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1977 · Virology; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6822(77)90492-5· OSTI ID:7112570

Bister, K; Varmus, H E; Stavnezer, E; Hunter, E; Vogt, P K

The effects of ultraviolet (uv) irradiation on transforming and replicating capacities of avian oncoviruses and on the synthesis of virus specific products after infection with irradiated virus were studied. Different strains of nondefective avian sarcoma viruses were inactivated at the same rate following single-hit kinetics. The 37 percent survival dose D/sub 37/ (1/e) was 736 erg mm/sup -2/ on average. A comparison of the inactivation kinetics in a focus assay (transforming capacity) and an infectious center assay (replicating and transforming capacity) showed no partial inactivation of the virus genome; focus and infectious center formation were inactivated at the same rate. Similar results were obtained when the replicating capacity of the avian sarcoma virus was measured in a plaque assay. The rates of inactivation of avian sarcoma virus assayed in focus and infectious center tests on chick embryo fibroblasts expressing or not expressing chicken helper factor, on chick embryo cells preinfected with RAV-1, and on Peking duck cells were identical. Nondefective avian sarcoma virus and deletion mutants of avian sarcoma virus defective for replication or transformation were inactivated at the same rate. Biochemical analysis of the DNA extracted from a Japanese quail tumor cell line (QT-6) 26 hr after infection with irradiated avian sarcoma virus strain B77 showed a decrease of total virus specific DNA and of full-length covalently closed circular (form I) viral DNA synthesis with increase of the uv dose. Virus-specific RNA synthesis, measured by hybridization of labeled RNA extracted from chicken embryo fibroblasts infected with irradiated virus to viral DNA, and particle production, assayed by uridine incorporation, were also inhibited with increasing uv dose. The inactivation rates for virus-specific DNA and RNA synthesis and for particle production were very similar, but lower than the rate for the loss of infectivity.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
• OSTI ID: 7112570
• Journal Information: Virology; (United States), Vol. 77:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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