Abstract
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA synthesis was studied in 5-fluorouracil (FU)-treated and untreated human embryonic lung cells, which differ greatly with respect to the number of cells in the culture synthesizing cellular DNA. CMV DNA synthesis proceeded at the same rate in FU-treated and in untreated cells. CMV infection also reversed the inhibitory effects of FU and activated cellular DNA synthesis in some of the cells in the FU-treated culture. Autoradiographic studies showed that more than 20% of the cells in the infected FU-treated culture synthesized viral DNA when less than 1% had synthesized cellular DNA, indicating that the synthesis of viral macromolecules proceeds in cells that do not synthesize cellular DNA from the time of infection, and that viral DNA synthesis proceeds independently of the host cell DNA synthesis. Combined autoradiographic and immunofluorescence studies of both the FU-treated and untreated infected cells showed that, whereas 20% of the cells in the cultures synthesize viral DNA and viral antigens, only about 3 to 6% of those cells that synthesize cellular DNA also synthesize viral antigen. Thus, productive infection was delayed or inhibited in those cells that were stimulated by CMV infection to synthesize cellular DNA.
Full text
PDF







Images in this article
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- Albrecht T., Rapp F. Malignant transformation of hamster embryo fibroblasts following exposure to ultraviolet-irradiated human cytomegalovirus. Virology. 1973 Sep;55(1):53–61. doi: 10.1016/s0042-6822(73)81007-4. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Ben-Porat T., Kaplan A. S. Correlation between replication and degradation of cellular DNA in polyoma virus-infected cells. Virology. 1967 Jul;32(3):457–464. doi: 10.1016/0042-6822(67)90297-8. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Ben-Porat T., Kaplan A. S., Tennant R. W. Effect of 5-fluorouracil on the multiplication of a virulent virus (pseudorabies) and an oncogenic virus (polyoma). Virology. 1967 Jul;32(3):445–456. doi: 10.1016/0042-6822(67)90296-6. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- CRAIG J. M., MACAULEY J. C., WELLER T. H., WIRTH P. Isolation of intranuclear inclusion producing agents from infants with illnesses resembling cytomegalic inclusion disease. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1957 Jan;94(1):4–12. doi: 10.3181/00379727-94-22841. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- DULBECCO R., HARTWELL L. H., VOGT M. INDUCTION OF CELLULAR DNA SYNTHESIS BY POLYOMA VIRUS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1965 Feb;53:403–410. doi: 10.1073/pnas.53.2.403. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- DULBECCO R., VOGT M. Plaque formation and isolation of pure lines with poliomyelitis viruses. J Exp Med. 1954 Feb;99(2):167–182. doi: 10.1084/jem.99.2.167. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Fioretti A., Furukawa T., Santoli D., Plotkin S. A. Nonproductive infection of guinea pig cells with human cytomegalovirus. J Virol. 1973 Jun;11(6):998–1003. doi: 10.1128/jvi.11.6.998-1003.1973. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Furukawa T., Tanaka S., Plotkin S. A. Stimulation of macromolecular synethesis in guinea pig cells by human CMV. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1975 Jan;148(1):211–214. doi: 10.3181/00379727-148-38508. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Gershon D., Sachs L., Winocour E. The induction of cellular DNA synthesis by simian virus 40 in contact-inhibited and in x-irradiated cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1966 Sep;56(3):918–925. doi: 10.1073/pnas.56.3.918. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- HAYFLICK L., MOORHEAD P. S. The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains. Exp Cell Res. 1961 Dec;25:585–621. doi: 10.1016/0014-4827(61)90192-6. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Huang E. S., Chen S. T., Pagano J. S. Human cytomegalovirus. I. Purification and characterization of viral DNA. J Virol. 1973 Dec;12(6):1473–1481. doi: 10.1128/jvi.12.6.1473-1481.1973. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Jeor S. C., Albrecht T. B., Funk F. D., Rapp F. Stimulation of cellular DNA synthesis by human cytomegalovirus. J Virol. 1974 Feb;13(2):353–362. doi: 10.1128/jvi.13.2.353-362.1974. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- KAPLAN A. S., BEN-PORAT T. The action of 5-fluorouracil on the nucleic acid metabolism of pseudorabies virus-infected and noninfected rabbit kidney cells. Virology. 1961 Jan;13:78–92. doi: 10.1016/0042-6822(61)90034-4. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Lawrence W. C. Evidence for a relationship between equine abortion (herpes) virus deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis and the S phase of the KB cell mitotic cycle. J Virol. 1971 Jun;7(6):736–748. doi: 10.1128/jvi.7.6.736-748.1971. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Pages J., Manteuil S., Stehelin D., Fiszman M., Marx M., Girard M. Relationship between replication of simian virus 40 DNA and specific events of the host cell cycle. J Virol. 1973 Jul;12(1):99–107. doi: 10.1128/jvi.12.1.99-107.1973. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- St Jeor S., Rapp F. Cytomegalovirus: conversion of nonpermissive cells to a permissive state for virus replication. Science. 1973 Sep 14;181(4104):1060–1061. doi: 10.1126/science.181.4104.1060. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Tennant R. W., Layman K. R., Hand R. E. Effect of cell physiological state on infection by rat virus. J Virol. 1969 Dec;4(6):872–878. doi: 10.1128/jvi.4.6.872-878.1969. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Thorne H. V. Cyclic variation in susceptibility of Balb-c 3T3 cells to polyoma virus. J Gen Virol. 1973 Feb;18(2):163–169. doi: 10.1099/0022-1317-18-2-163. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Wentworth B. B., French L. Plaque assay of cytomegalovirus strains of human origin. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1970 Nov;135(2):253–258. doi: 10.3181/00379727-135-35031. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]