This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Duprex, W. P.
Right arrow Articles by Rima, B. K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Duprex, W. P.
Right arrow Articles by Rima, B. K.

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

Journal of Virology, April 2000, p. 3874-3880, Vol. 74, No. 8
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Measles Virus-Induced Disruption of the Glial-Fibrillary-Acidic Protein Cytoskeleton in an Astrocytoma Cell Line (U-251)

W. Paul Duprex,1,* Stephen McQuaid,2 and Bert K. Rima1

School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL,1 and Neuropathology Laboratory, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust, Belfast BT12 6Bl,2 Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Received 20 October 1999/Accepted 9 December 1999

A recombinant measles virus which expresses enhanced green fluorescent protein (MVeGFP) has been used to infect two astrocytoma cell lines (GCCM and U-251) to study the effect of virus infection on the cytoskeleton. Indirect immunocytochemistry was used to demonstrate the cellular localization of the cytoskeletal components. Enhanced green fluorescent protein autofluorescence was used to identify measles virus-infected cells. No alteration of the actin, tubulin, or vimentin components of the cytoskeleton was observed in either cell type, whereas a disruption of the glial-fibrillary-acidic protein filament (GFAP) network was noted in MVeGFP-infected U-251 cells. The relative amounts of GFAP present in infected and uninfected U-251 cells were quantified by image analysis of data sets obtained by confocal microscopy by using vimentin, another intermediate filament on which MVeGFP has no effect, as a control.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Rd., Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Phone: 01232 272060. Fax: 01232 236505. E-mail: p.duprex{at}qub.ac.uk.

Journal of Virology, April 2000, p. 3874-3880, Vol. 74, No. 8
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.




Copyright © 2009 by the American Society for Microbiology.   For an alternate route to Journals.ASM.org, visit: http://intl-journals.asm.org | More Info»