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. 1970 Sep;6(3):286–294. doi: 10.1128/jvi.6.3.286-294.1970

Temperature-Sensitive Simian Virus 40 Mutant Defective in a Late Function

Saul Kit 1, S Tokuno 1, K Nakajima 1, D Trkula 1, D R Dubbs 1
PMCID: PMC376121  PMID: 4320387

Abstract

A temperature-sensitive simian virus 40 (SV40) mutant, tsTNG-1, has been isolated from nitrosoguanidine-treated and SV40-infected African green monkey kidney (CV-1) cultures. Replication of virus at the nonpermissive temperature (38.7 C) was 3,000-fold less than at the permissive temperature (33.5 C). Plaque formation by SV40tsTNG-1 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) on CV-1 monolayers occurred normally at 33.5 C but was grossly inhibited at 38.7 C. The time at which virus replication was blocked at 38.7 C was determined by temperature-shift experiments. In shift-up experiments, cultures infected for various times at 33.5 C were shifted to 38.7 C. In shift-down experiments, cultures infected for various times at 38.7 C were shifted to 33.5 C. All cultures were harvested at 96 hr postinfection (PI). No virus growth occurred when the shift-up occurred before 40 hr PI. Maximum virus yields were obtained at 96 hr PI when the shift-down occurred at 66 hr, but only about 15% of the maximum yield was obtained when the shift-down occurred at 76 hr PI. These results indicate that SV40tsTNG-1 contains a conditional lethal mutation in a late viral gene function. Mutant SV40tsTNG-1 synthesized T antigen, viral capsid antigens, and viral DNA, and induced thymidine kinase activity at either 33.5 or 38.7 C. The properties of the SV40 DNA synthesized in mutant-infected CV-1 cells at 33.5 or 38.7 C were very similar to those of SV40 DNA made in parental virus-infected cells, as determined by nitrocellulose column chromatography, cesium-chloride-ethidium bromide equilibrium centrifugation, and by velocity centrifugation in neutral sucrose gradients. Mutant SV40tsTNG-1 enhanced cellular DNA synthesis in primary cultures of mouse kidney cells at 33.5 and 38.7 C and also transformed mouse kidney cultures at 36.5 C. SV40tsTNG-1 was recovered from clonal lines of transformed cells after fusion with susceptible CV-1 cells and incubation of heterokaryons at 33.5 C, but not at 38.7 C.

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