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Characterization of human parainfluenza virus type 3 persistent infection in cell culture.

Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029-6574.

ABSTRACT

Three cell lines persistently infected with human parainfluenza virus type 3 were characterized on a molecular level in this study. All six structural protein genes were transcribed into monocistronic RNAs in the persistently infected cells. In both acutely and persistently infected cells, polycistronic transcripts were abundant, although the ratio of polycistronic to monocistronic transcripts was reduced in the persistently infected cells. Each of the persistently infected cell lines contained a distinct subgenomic RNA species. The subgenomic RNAs were present in purified nucleocapsid cores, indicating that they represent viral genome RNA, were far more abundant than full-length RNA, and were stably maintained through at least 36 cell passages. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the subgenomic RNAs from two of the persistently infected cell lines revealed that the 5' ends are identical to that of the standard genome. Hybridization experiments with oligonucleotide probes showed that both fragments retain sequences from the 5' end of the standard genome and contain approximately 1,200 nucleotides (cell line 1) and 1,500 nucleotides (cell line 2) of the polymerase gene sequence. The demonstration of several alterations in viral gene expression in persistently infected cells offers insight into the factors associated with persistence of parainfluenza virus 3.

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