Figure 6. Influenza virus induced cell-cell fusion. MDCK cells were infected with the viruses at MOI of 0.1 or 0.001 in the presence of 1 µg/ml TPCK-trypsin.

After adsorption for 1 h at 37°C, the inocula were removed and the cultures were washed 3 times. The cells were incubated for the indicated times at 37°C in the maintenance media. At the indicated time, the cells were processed for indirect immunofluorescence assay, and the infected cells were detected with polyclonal antisera to whole viruses. (A) MOI at 0.1, 3 h p.i. (B) MOI at 0.1, 6 h p.i. (C) MOI at 0.001, 12 h p.i.