Veterinary Virology A Flashcards
Father of microscopic / virologic/ infectious diseases sciences
Louis Pasteur
Discovered the nature of prions, the etiologic agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and similar diseases. He was awarded a nobel prize in medicine.
Prusiner (1997)
Worked on inactivation of virus and attenuation of polio vaccine
Salk nd Sabin (1954-1057)
Identified Human Immune deficiency virus
Luc Montagnier et al (1984)
Made the first rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur
First cancer causing virus to be discovered
Avian leukemia virus
Completely dependent on their host for the machinery of energy production and synthesis of macromolecules
Viruses
Made visualization of viruses possible
Electron microscopy
The first virus to be discovered where it was described as filterable viruses
Foot-and-mouth virus
The largest of the viruses of vertebrates
Pox virus
The morphologically defined protein coat surrounding the complete virus particle
Capsid
Morphologic units that are discemable features (protrusion or depression) seen on the surface of virions by electron microscopy
Capsomeres
Glycoprotein dimmers/trimmers assembled on virus surfaces as spikes
Peplomers
Symmetry found in isometric viruses
Icosahedral
Enzymes in NA replication, transcription, translation and shut down of host cell functions
Non structural proteins
Used in classic studies of virus replication in cell culture where in the increase of infectious virus over time is followed by sequential sampling and filtration
One-step growth curve
After infection of cell culture, a period that occurs wherein infectious particles cannot be demonstrated even intracellularly
Eclipse period
What process initiates viral infection
Attachment
What mechanism do viral uptake or penetration occur
Receptor mediated endocytosis and fusion with plasma membrane
Strategies of replication of RNA viruses are diverse because (3)
-Some are single or double stranded
-Some are positive or negative sense
-Some are monopartite or segmented
Gene sequences upstream from the start site which regulate transcription
Enchancer
Important for regulation of gene and involved in the amplification of transcription
Promoters
A type of viral protien, which act on non-infected cells to modulate the progress of infection in the body as whole
Virokines
What viral property is onvolved when viruses produce proteins that interfere with specific host antiviral activations
The capacity to elude host defenses
General types of genotypic mutation (3)
Point mutation
Chromosome mutation
Copy number variations
Types of point mutation (3) SID
Substitution
Insertion
Deletion
Types of chromosomal mutation (4)
Inversion
Deletion
Duplication
Translocation
Types of Copy number variation (2)
Gene amplification
Expanding trinucleotide repeat
Enhances spontaneous mutations for RNS virus
Defective interfering mutants
Vertebrate viruses with specific tropism and infection making them valuable in carrying foreign genes
Viral vectors
Viral mutants that cannot grow under certain experimental parameters (restrictive) but can replicate in others (permissive)
Conditional lethal mutants
T particles of vesicular stomatitis virus are type of mutants. They are shortened and cannot replicate by themselves but need the presence of parental wild-type virus
Defective interfering mutants
Observed in infection of cells by 2 viruses where progeny virions have acquired phenotypic characteristics from both parents although their genetype remains unchanged
Phenotypic mixing
Used to describe interactions betweeen viral proteins in doubly infected cells that result in rescue or increased yields of one or both viruses
Complementation
The heritable condition of possesing more than two complete sets of chromosomes
Polyploidy
Comprise a class of virus-coded proteins that are not required for viral replication but influence pathogenesis of infection in vitro by sabotaging the host’s innate resistence of immune response
Virokins
An immune response gene which aids in the host’s resistance to viral infections
Ir gene
Recombinant DNA technology involve molecular cloning which can be described as
-Insertion of foreign DNA segment into an appropriate vector in frame with appropriate upstream and downstream regulatory sequences
-The recombinant plasmid is introduced into the host cell
-The foreign DNA may be expressed and the protein it specifies may be produced in large amounts
A virus is associated with genetic shift and drift, especially regarding envelope proteins, hemagglutinin (H) and neuramidase
Influenza A
A viral strategy causes autoimmune damage because of presence of structural homoligies linear or confrontational between host and viral proteins
Molecular mimicry
Type of infection that is characterized by the non-demonstration of the virus except when reactivation of the disease occcurs
Persistent infection