Lecture 4: virus replication cycle Flashcards
describe the infectious virus replication cycle
begins at attachment of single virus particle
virus enters and genome is replicated then assembly
ends in release of many virions from cell by lyses
replication length varies
all events inside single infected cell
describe animal cell culture
not possible before 1949
poliovirus first
primary cells are used
-animals tissue (embryonic/ newborn/ foreskin)
-express contact inhibition
-cells have finite lifetime (one time use)
mice liver tissue extracted and digested with collagenase
- filter and obtain pellet
- wash pellet- differential centrifugation
- least dense (upper part) is added to culture enriched for slowly sedimenting single cells (primary cells form monolayer)
- more dense (pellet) added to culture for dense cell clumps
maintain diploidy
~100 divisions (DNA shortens)
human embryos
can be harvestes
diploid cell lines
aneuploid indefinite growth tumor tissue/ mutagens atypical can make own telomerase enzyme grow over eachother
continuous cell lines
advantages and disadvantages of live animal models
advantages
- only means until 1930s
- essential for some viruses (need host not cell culture)
- virus pathogenesis
disadvantages
- inconvenient and expensive
- variable responses
- mutants
- animal welfare issues
chorioallantoic membrane inoculation viruses in embryonic eggs
herpes simplex, poxvirus, rous sarcoma virus
amniotic inoculation viruses in embryonic eggs
influenza, mumps
yolk sac inoculation viruses in embryonic eggs
herpes simplex
allantoic inoculation viruses in embryonic eggs
influenza, mumps, newcastle disease, avian adenovisus
describe bacterial virus plaque assay
ellis and delbruck (1939)
- infect lawn of bacteria
- phage lyse host cell
- quantitative
describe animal virus plaque assay
dulbecco (1952)
- cultured cells form monolayer
- localized infection of neighboring cells= plaque
- staining necessary to visualize plaques (neutral red)
how many viruses needed to form a plaque
one hit (linear) kinetics
- number of plaques directly proportional to first power of [ ] virus is inoculated in
- if [ ] doubles then number of plaques doubles too
two hit (curved) kinetics -number of plaques directly proportional to the square of [ ] of the virus inoculated
-# of infectious particles added per cell
-infection depends on random collision of virions and cells
susceptible cells may remain uninfected or get one or more particles
MOI
multiplicity of infection
all cells infected at same time
synchronous infection
why use high inoculum dose
- damage particles
- defective genomes
- “empty” capsids
- antiviral properties