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. 1976 Apr;18(1):117–123. doi: 10.1128/jvi.18.1.117-123.1976

Recombination between temperature-sensitive and deletion mutants of reovirus.

D A Spandidos, A F Graham
PMCID: PMC515529  PMID: 1255867

Abstract

In standard pairwise crosses there was no detectable recombination between defective reovirus lacking the largest genomic segment and prototypes of the seven known classes of ts mutants. However, in such crosses between R2A (201) and the various prototypes frequencies of ts+ recombinants between 2.6 and 6.1% were observed, as others have found (Fields, 1971; Fields and Joklik, 1969). An infectious center assay was devised to measure recombination in this system, and it was found that all mixedly infected cells gave rise to ts+ recombinants in crosses between prototype ts mutants, but no recombination was detectable when the defective virus was crossed with three different ts mutants. The ts mutation of mutant R2A (201) was efficiently rescued when crossed with UV-inactivated wild-type virus but not when crossed with UV-inactivated defective virus. It is concluded from these various experiments that if there is any recombination between these defective reovirions and any known class of ts mutants it is too low to be measured by methods presently available. The kinetics of recombination were measured in cells mixedly infected with R2A (201) and R2B (352) mutants. At the earliest time progeny virus could be found in the cells the frequency of ts+ recombinants was 4.5%, and this frequency remained unchanged despite a subsequent 1,000-fold increase in progeny virus.

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