Abstract
Dengue virus suspensions from mouse brain and cell culture were fractionated into three components by rate zonal centrifugation in sucrose gradients. Infectious virus sedimented in a single zone and possessed hemagglutinating (HA) and complement fixing (CF) activity. Electron micrographs showed the virion to be a spherical particle 48 to 50 nm in diameter with 7-nm spherical structures on its surface. Buoyant density in CsCl of virions from mouse brain was estimated at 1.22 g/cm3 and from cell culture at 1.24 g/cm3. During centrifugation of virions in CsCl, an additional HA component appeared with a buoyant density of 1.18 g/cm3. It was shown in electron micrographs to consist of virion fragments. A noninfectious component with HA and CF activity sedimented in sucrose more slowly than intact virus, had a buoyant density of 1.23 g/cm3 in CsCl, and appeared as “doughnut” forms measuring 13.8 to 14 nm in diameter. A third component, with CF activity and no HA activity, sedimented very little in sucrose gradients. Particles of the same size and shape as the spherical subunits on the surface of the virion were observed in electron micrographs.
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