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. 2020 Dec 4;10:21226. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-78210-8

Figure 3.

Figure 3

HA proteolytic activation and replication of recombinant viruses in different MDCK cell lines. Cleavage-activation of the HA of recombinant viruses carrying single mutations in the HACS in CEK cells with ( +) or without ( +) trypsin (A), in CEK after transfection with TMPRSS2 ( +) or left untransfected (-) (B) or MDCK cells expressing HAT (C). Western Blot figures were acquired by Quantity One Software Version 4.4 (Biorad, Germany) (https://www.bio-rad.com/webroot/web/pdf/lsr/literature/4000126-14A.pdf). Multiple cycle replication after infection of MDCK with or without trypsin, MDCK-TMPRSS2 or MDCK-HAT with different recombinant viruses at MOI of 1 for 24 h. Titers were determined by plaque assay in MDCKII cells in the presence of trypsin. Titers are expressed as PFU/ml and are shown as the mean and the standard deviation. The kinetics were done twice in duplicates for each cell types (D). Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA with post hoc Tukey tests and Kruskal–Wallis with Dunn’s test. Asterisk indicates significant differences compared to K319 (p < 0.05).