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. 1983 Feb;39(2):879–888. doi: 10.1128/iai.39.2.879-888.1983

Pneumotropism of Sendai Virus in Relation to Protease-Mediated Activation in Mouse Lungs

Masato Tashiro 1, Morio Homma 1
PMCID: PMC348030  PMID: 6299951

Abstract

The pneumotropism of Sendai virus in mice was studied in relation to the activation and replication of the virus in the lung. Inactive Sendai virus grown in LLC-MK2 cells, which possessed an uncleaved precursor glycoprotein, F, and was noninfectious to tissue culture cells, neither grew nor caused pathological changes in the lung of mice. When trypsin treatment was made which cleaved F into F1 and F2 subunits, the virus became activated so that it could initiate replication in the bronchial epithelium of the lung. In this case, the progeny virus was produced in the activated form and multiple-cycle replication occurred successively. A parallel relationship was found between the degree of the viral replication and that of clinical signs of the respiratory disease, body weight loss, and histopathological changes in the lung. A protease mutant, TR-2, which was able to be activated only by chymotrypsin but not by trypsin, could also initiate replication in the bronchial epithelium, when activated by chymotrypsin before inoculation into mice. The progeny virus, however, remained inactive, and the replication was limited to a single cycle, which resulted in the limited lung lesion. The overall results suggest that some activating mechanism for the progeny virus of wild-type Sendai virus exists in the lung of mice and the principle (activator) responsible for this phenomenon has a character similar to trypsin. The possible location of the activator is discussed.

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