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Journal of Virology, June 1999, p. 5220-5224, Vol. 73, No. 6
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Infection of Chicken Embryonic Fibroblasts by Measles Virus: Adaptation at the Virus Entry Level

Carine Escoffier and Denis Gerlier*

Immunité & Infections Virales, IVMC, CNRS-UCBL UMR 5537, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France

Received 16 November 1998/Accepted 18 March 1999

Measles virus (MV) has a tropism restricted to humans and primates and uses the human CD46 molecule as a cellular receptor. MV has been adapted to grow in chicken embryonic fibroblasts (CEF) and gave rise to an attenuated live vaccine. Hallé and Schwarz MV strains were compared in their ability to infect both simian Vero cells and CEF. Whereas both strains infected Vero cells, only the CEF-adapted Schwarz strain was able to efficiently infect CEF. Since the expression of the human MV receptor CD46 rendered the chicken embryonic cell line TCF more permissive to the infection by the Hallé MV strain, the MV entry into CEF appeared to be a limiting step in the absence of prior MV adaptation. CEF lacked reactivity with anti-CD46 antibodies but were found to express another protein allowing MV binding as an alternative receptor to CD46.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Immunité & Infections Virales, IVMC, CNRS-UCBL UMR 5537, Faculté de Médecine Lyon RTH Laennec, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France. Phone: 33 (0)4 78 77 86 18. Fax: 33 (0)4 78 77 87 54. E-mail: gerlier{at}laennec.univ-lyon1.fr.

Journal of Virology, June 1999, p. 5220-5224, Vol. 73, No. 6
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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