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. 2013 Sep;87(17):9558–9568. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01183-13

Table 1.

Actual and relative titers of VSV-G and BASV-G pseudotype infections in various cell lines and primary cellsa

Cell line Mean VSV-G titer (TU/ml) ± SD Mean BASV-G titer (TU/ml) ± SD Mean relative titer ± SDb
Human adherent cell lines
    293T 1.2E+07 ± 3.7E+06 9.0E+06 ± 1.2E+05 74.5 ± 1.1
    Huh-7 4.8E+06 ± 5.5E+05 4.3E+06 ± 2.1E+04 89.8 ± 0.4
    A549 4.6E+06 ± 8.8E+04 3.2E+06 ± 3.1E+04 69.3 ± 0.7
    HeLa 4.1E+06 ± 3.4E+05 2.8E+06 ± 1.8E+05 68.2 ± 4.4
    SW480 2.9E+07 ± 5.8E+05 2.8E+07 ± 4.7E+05 95.1 ± 1.6
    CaCo-2 7.2E+06 ± 8.1E+04 8.4E+06 ± 4.9E+05 116.7 ± 6.7
    HT1080 8.8E+07 ± 2.1E+06 1.9E+07 ± 4.5E+06 21.6 ± 5.1
    RD 1.3E+07 ± 7.4E+05 2.0E+07 ± 1.0E+04 153.9 ± 0.1
Human suspension cell lines
    H9 1.4E+06 ± 3.7E+04 1.9E+05 ± 1.1E+04 13.1 ± 0.8
    Jurkat 1.2E+07 ± 3.2E+05 6.1E+05 ± 1.8E+05 5.1 ± 1.5
    B-THP 5.1E+07 ± 2.9E+06 5.7E+05 ± 2.1E+05 1.1 ± 0.4
    THP-1 1.0E+06 ± 2.1E+05 5.8E+04 ± 3.6E+03 5.6 ± 0.3
    HEL 1.4E+07 ± 1.8E+06 2.7E+06 ± 2.5E+05 19.3 ± 1.7
Vertebrate cell lines
    Vero 3.9E+06 ± 7.9E+05 8.7E+05 ± 1.5E+05 22.5 ± 3.8
    MC57 4.6E+06 ± 1.4E+06 2.4E+06 ± 1.5E+05 53.5 ± 3.2
    NIH 3T3 3.2E+07 ± 7.8E+05 2.8E+05 ± 1.8E+04 0.9 ± 0.1
    C6 4.8E+06 ± 3.3E+05 3.6E+05 ± 1.5E+05 7.5 ± 3.2
    NRK 1.5E+07 ± 8.7E+04 2.8E+06 ± 1.2E+04 18.5 ± 0.1
    BHK 7.0E+06 ± 2.2E+05 3.0E+06 ± 1.1E+04 42.7 ± 0.2
    SK-RST 5.2E+06 ± 1.1E+04 2.3E+05 ± 5.5E+04 4.4 ± 1.0
    MDBK 3.0E+06 ± 3.9E+05 4.0E+05 ± 2.9E+04 13.5 ± 1.0
    Tb1Lu 5.0E+06 ± 4.8E+05 3.9E+05 ± 9.8E+04 7.8 ± 2.0
Invertebrate cell lines
    C7/10 6.9E+07 ± 1.0E+07 7.4E+06 ± 5.7E+04 10.7 ± 0.1
    C6/36 8.4E+07 ± 2.8E+05 6.1E+06 ± 1.3E+05 7.2 ± 0.2
Human primary cells
    HUVEC 1.5E+07 ± 1.4E+06 6.5E+06 ± 6.1E+05 43.3 ± 6.1
    HUPEC 1.1E+07 ± 1.1E+06 2.6E+06 ± 4.4E+05 23.6 ± 4.0
a

For the negative control, the background level of infectivity of bald particles was 5.6E+03 ± 1.4E+03 TU/ml.

b

Relative titer is the BASV-G/VSV-G ratio as a percentage of VSV-G.