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. 2012 Feb 14;20(6):1139–1147. doi: 10.1038/mt.2012.4

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Measles virus (MV) infection and neutrophil-activating protein (NAP) transgene expression in the malignant pleural effusion of mice-bearing MDA231-lu-P4 pleural xenografts. Mice were treated by a single transthoracic (t.t.). injection of MV-s-NAP or MV-lambda. NAP transgene expression in pleural fluid was demonstrated by immunoblotting using (a) NAP-specific monoclonal antibody (MAb) 16F4 or (b) lambda chain-specific antibody. The secretory form of the NAP transgene was detected in the pleural fluid of four of four MV-s-NAP-treated mice (lanes 1–4) but not in MV-lambda-injected (lanes 5, 6) control mice (a). Human lambda light chain was detected in three of four samples from MV-lambda-injected (lanes 3–6) mice but not in samples from MV-s-NAP-treated (lanes 1, 2) animals (b) using a lambda chain-specific detection antibody. MV-s-NAP (c) induced large multinucleated syncytia in infected tumor cells (Giemsa staining) in the pleural fluid of mice with MDA231-lu-P4 xenografts. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining for neutrophils in the pleural fluid of MV-s-NAP is shown in (d). MV-s-NAP was isolated from the pleural fluid by overlay on Vero cells. MV-s-NAP induced giant syncytia formation 24 hours after overlay (e). Uninfected control Vero cells (f).