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J Virol. 1988 April; 62(4): 1323-1329

Delayed formation of defective interfering particles in vesicular stomatitis virus-infected cells: kinetic studies of viral protein and RNA synthesis during autointerference.

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

ABSTRACT

The time course of defective interfering (DI) particle and B particle release from vesicular stomatitis virus-infected BHK-21 cells was studied at different multiplicities of defective and infective particles. Particle release was progressively delayed in cells infected with an increasing DI-to-B particle ratio. The delayed particle release during interference was found to be connected with a reduced but prolonged synthesis of viral proteins, a slower accumulation of viral proteins, and a delayed shutoff of cellular protein synthesis. The relative synthesis of M and G proteins was reduced during interference, whereas the relative synthesis of N and NS proteins was increased. On the level of genomic RNA replication, we found that DI RNA was replicated more slowly during interference than the standard genomic RNA was during acute infection. The ratio of DI particles to B particles which were released increased throughout the infectious cycle. At a given time in the infectious cycle, this ratio was independent of the multiplicity of infecting DI and B particles. On the basis of the kinetic studies, we argue that cells infected with higher amounts of DI particles compared with B particles synthesize a higher DI-to-B particle ratio and release these progeny particles later than cells infected with a low DI-to-B particle ratio.

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