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. 1983 Jan;45(1):18–26. doi: 10.1128/jvi.45.1.18-26.1983

Thermostabilities of Virion Activities of Newcastle Disease Virus: Evidence that the Temperature-Sensitive Mutants in Complementation Groups B, BC, and C Have Altered HN Proteins

Mark E Peeples 1, Rhona L Glickman 1, Michael A Bratt 1
PMCID: PMC256382  PMID: 6823010

Abstract

Four virion activities of Newcastle disease virus (hemagglutinating, neuraminidase, hemolytic, and infectious activities) were examined before and after heat stress in low-salt buffer and physiological salt buffer (phosphate-buffered saline). The hemagglutinating and neuraminidase activities of the Australia-Victoria wild-type (AV-WT) strain were thermostable at both salt concentrations tested, whereas the thermostabilities of the hemolytic and infectious activities were salt dependent (thermostable in phosphate-buffered saline but not in low-salt buffer). Virions of RNA+ temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of AV-WT were tested for the stabilities of the four activities. Some mutants in groups B, BC, and C were as stable as AV-WT in all functions, but others were much less stable in all functions. The unstable mutants in groups B, BC, and C affirmed the assignment of the ts lesions of these mutants to the hemagglutinin/neuraminidase (HN) protein gene because HN function(s) are required for all four activities. The instability of these ts mutants was not related to their decreased virion HN protein content and was not due to physical loss of the HN protein from the virions. Three of four ts+ plaque-forming revertants of the least stable mutant, BC2, coreverted for stability, confirming that the unstable phenotype is indeed the result of the mutation responsible for the ts phenotype. Group D mutants were approximately as stable as AV-WT in hemagglutinating, neuraminidase, and hemolytic activities; this is consistent with this group representing a lesion in a gene other than the HN protein gene. However, the infectivities of two of the three group D mutants were less stable than the infectivity of AV-WT in low-salt buffer.

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