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Journal of Virology, April 1999, p. 3227-3235, Vol. 73, No. 4
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Differentiation of M1 Myeloid Precursor Cells into Macrophages Results in Binding and Infection by Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus and Apoptosis

M. L. Jelachich,* C. Bramlage,dagger and H. L. Lipton

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201

Received 19 June 1998/Accepted 7 December 1998

Infection of susceptible mouse strains with BeAn, a less virulent strain of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV), results in immune system-mediated demyelinating lesions in the central nervous system (CNS) similar to those in multiple sclerosis. Since macrophages appear to carry the major detectable antigen burden in vivo, and purification of sufficient cell numbers from the CNS for detailed analysis is difficult, macrophage-like cell lines provide an accessible system with which to study virus-macrophage interactions. The myeloid precursor cell line M1 differentiates in response to cytokines and expresses many characteristics of tissue macrophages. Incubation of TMEV with undifferentiated M1 cells produced neither infection nor apoptosis, whereas differentiated M1 (M1-D) cells developed a restricted virus infection and changes indicative of apoptosis. Virus binding and RNA replication as well as cellular production of alpha/beta interferons increased with differentiation. Although the amount of infectious virus was highly restricted, BeAn-infected M1-D cells synthesized and appropriately processed virus capsid proteins at levels comparable to those for permissive BHK-21 cells. Analysis of Bcl-2 protein family expression in undifferentiated and differentiated cells suggests that susceptibility of M1-D cells to apoptosis may be controlled, in part, by expression of the proapoptotic alpha  isoform of Bax and Bak. These data suggest that macrophage differentiation plays a role in susceptibility to TMEV infection and apoptosis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Evanston Northwestern Research Institute, Women's Hospital, B654, 2650 Ridge, Evanston, IL 60201. Phone: (847) 570-2378. Fax: (847) 570-1568. E-mail: mlj461{at}nwu.edu.

dagger Present address: St. Antonius Clinic, Wuppertal, Germany.

Journal of Virology, April 1999, p. 3227-3235, Vol. 73, No. 4
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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