Morphogenesis of nuclear polyhedrosis virus under conditions of prolonged passage in vitro

E. A. MacKinnon, J. F. Henderson, D. B. Stoltz, P. Faulkner

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An ultrastructural description is given of nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) morphogenesis in vitro, with emphasis on changes occurring during long-term serial passage of infectious material. The morphogenesis and infectivity of early passage virus is similar to that which obtains in vivo. The infectivity of polyhedra prepared from late passage infected cultures is greatly diminished; this is paralleled by both a decrease in the total number of polyhedra produced and a decrease in the number of morphologically normal occluded virus particles. Late passage viral morphogenesis is profoundly changed. New observations concerning the acquisition of membranes by NPV nucleocapsids and polyhedron formation are discussed.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)419-435
Número de páginas17
PublicaciónJournal of Structural Biology
Volumen49
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublished - dic. 1974
Publicado de forma externa

Nota bibliográfica

Funding Information:
We thank Dr. R. P. Jaques, Canada Agriculture Station, Harrow, Ontario for providing facilities for in vivo infectivity tests. This work was supported by a grant from the National Research Council, Canada.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Anatomy
  • Molecular Biology

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