Chemically-induced temperature sensitive mutants of dengue virus type 2 |
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Authors: | G C Tarr A S Lubiniecki |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2. Life Sciences Division Meloy Laboratories, Inc., Springfield, Virginia, USA
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Abstract: | Temperature sensitive (ts) mutants of dengue virus type 2 (DEN-2, TH-36 isolate) were induced by replication in primary hamster kidney cells treated with 5-azacytidine. Seven ts mutants were obtained from 138 clones isolated by an immunofluorescent cloning technique. Of these 7 ts mutants, 5 were sufficiently stable to permit partial characterization. Complementation was detected at very low but statistically significant levels between some ts mutants at 40 degrees C. Viral double-stranded RNA production was evaluated in LLC-MK2 cells at 30 degrees and 40 degrees C by micro-quantitative complement fixation. The results of complementation tests and RNA production tests indicated that the 4 of 5 stable ts mutants constitute 3 separate complementation groups (2 RNA+ and 1 RNA-groups), while a fifth ts mutant was RNA- but non-complementable. The data presented here indicate that a genetic system can be developed without employing traditional plaque or cytopathology methods. Further, the 5 DEN-2 ts mutants are believed to represent the only set of complementation-positive flavivirus mutants so far isolated. |
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