Abstract
Vesicular stomatitis virus propagated in and released from Aedes albopictus cells had the normal complement of viral proteins; the glycoprotein contained carbohydrate but no sialic acid. These virions had markedly reduced hemagglutinating activity and exhibited a very high ratio of physical particles to infectious virus. In vitro sialylation of vesicular stomatitis virions grown in mosquito cells resulted in a 100-fold increase in both infectivity and hemagglutination titers to levels approaching those of virus grown in BHK-21 cells. These experiments provide an example of host-controlled modification of viral infectivity.
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