ABSTRACT
The capacity of specific antibodies to inhibit the reproduction of homo- and heterologous adenoviruses in Hela cell added to culture medium after virus adsorption was studied. The inhibiting effect of polyclonal antivirus and monospecific antihexone antibodies to homo- and heterologous adenoviruses was shown. The effect was more expressed when using antibodies to homologous antibodies. The intensity of inhibition depended on antibodies concentration in the medium and infecting dose of the virus. Essential reduction of the quantity of infected cells and a decrease of the titer of adenovirus synthesized in the presence of homo- and heterologous antibodies was shown but adenovirus reproduction was not inhibited completely.
Subject(s)
Adenoviruses, Human/drug effects , Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology , Epithelial Cells/virology , Virus Replication/drug effects , Adenoviruses, Human/immunology , Adenoviruses, Human/physiology , Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology , Antibodies, Viral/immunology , Antibody Specificity , Capsid Proteins/immunology , Cell Culture Techniques , Epithelial Cells/drug effects , HeLa Cells , HumansABSTRACT
The properties of DNA for 9B, 123, 788/8 phages lysing phytopathogenic Pseudomonas syringae bacteria have been analysed with results presented. It was ascertained that their genomes consist of GC-type two-chain DNA molecules having molecular weight 14-15 mDa. It was shown that sedimentation coefficient for all three phage DNA is identical and equals 26S. GC-base percentage was calculated for the phage genomes. Its value, according to results of sedimentation analysis and melting temperature, was the same for 9B (51%, 57%) and 123 (51%, 57%) and differed for 788/8 (53%, 60%). The molecular weight of DNA phages calculated from the sum of fragments, obtained after genome splitting with restriction endonucleases is in agreement with the data of sedimentation analysis. The distribution of phage DNA fragments if electrophoregrams suggests the presence of numerous common restriction sites in the phages' genomes.
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Bacteriophages , DNA, Viral/chemistry , Pseudomonas/virology , Chemical Phenomena , Chemistry, Physical , Genome, Viral , Molecular WeightABSTRACT
Ultraviolet irradiation and treatment with mitomycin C demonstrated that a culture of Ps. vignae, strain 1025, was polylysogenic, as electron microscopic preparations of phagolysates revealed two types of virus particles: "large" with a hexagonal head of 700 A in diameter, and "small" with a round head of 500 A in diameter. Subcultivation of the test and indicator cultures showed in both cases formation of particles of these phages, the content of "small" virions increasing with the number of passages of negative colonies. Attempts to separate these viruses biological methods were not successfull. The phenomenon of polylysogeny is unusual in that moderate phage adsorbed repeatedly on host bacteria culture and lysed it. The causes of the discovered phenomenon are discussed.
