Article
Growth and molecular evolution of vesicular stomatitis serotype New Jersey in cells derived from its natural insect-host: evidence for natural adaptation.
Virus research - 1 Oct 2002
Llewellyn Z N, Salman M D, Pauszek S, Rodriguez Luis L
Abstract excerpt
In this study we evaluated the growth and molecular evolution of a natural isolate of VSV-NJ (89GAS) from sand flies in cells derived from sand flies (LL5), mosquitoes (C6/36) or hamsters (BHK21). Two VSV-NJ natural isolates of mammalian origin were used for comparison. For each virus we measured: (i) ability to grow in one-step growth curve or after serial passage on each cell type; (ii) ability to induce...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cricetinae
- Culicidae
- Evolution, Molecular
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Mutation
- Psychodidae
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Serial Passage
- Vesiculovirus
- Viral Envelope Proteins
