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. 1967 Feb;1(1):171–180. doi: 10.1128/jvi.1.1.171-180.1967

Physical Assay and Growth Cycle Studies of a Defective Adeno-Satellite Virus

Wade P Parks 1, Joseph L Melnick 1, Robert Rongey 1, Heather D Mayor 1
PMCID: PMC375517  PMID: 4990036

Abstract

Electron microscopic particle counting of the defective adeno-satellite virus (ASV), by use of pseudoreplication and negative staining with phosphotungstic acid, was shown to be a reproducible quantitative assay procedure. Particles of satellite type 4 that were counted in fluids from infected cultures had the same morphology as particles that banded at a buoyant density of 1.43 g/cc in cesium chloride. Other satellite virus serotypes examined in the same manner had a buoyant density of 1.37 to 1.38 g/cc. A comparison of satellite titers obtained by complement fixation and by particle counting demonstrated that an increase in satellite particles resulted in a corresponding increase in CF titers; however, electron microscopy was at least 10 times more sensitive than complement fixation for detecting satellite virus. Growth cycle studies of satellite virus in cells co-infected with adenovirus, as assayed by particle counting, indicated that the kinetics of satellite virus production closely followed the kinetics of its helper adenovirus production, with an eclipse period of 12 to 16 hr. The eclipse period of the satellite remained the same when cultures were preinfected with satellite 24 hr prior to adenovirus inoculation. However, when cultures were infected with adenovirus 12 hr before satellite virus, the eclipse period of the satellite was shortened to between 4 and 6 hr. Thus, satellite virus replication seems dependent upon a relatively late event in the adenovirus replication cycle. When cells were co-infected with adenovirus and its defective satellite, the yield of adenovirus was markedly reduced from that obtained in cells singly infected with adenovirus.

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