TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of BK Virus Infection on Primary Cultures of Rodent and Primate Cells (40220)
AU - Greenlee, John E.
AU - Narayan, Opendra
AU - Johnson, Richard T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by Public Health Service Grant Nos. NC1-43266 and NS 07000. Oster-Granite, M. L. unpublished data. Histologic sections of tumors derived from transplanted BK virus transformed cells were reviewed by Dr. John Strandberg, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The technical assistance of Ernestine Barber and secretarial help of Linda Kelly is greatly appreciated.
PY - 1978/7
Y1 - 1978/7
N2 - The effect of BK virus at high multiplicity was studied on cultures of hamster, rat, monkey, and human cells. BK virus induced multiple transforming events in cells of both rodent species. Rhesus monkey choroid plexus cells were insusceptible to the virus. Epithelial and fibroblastic human cell strains developed lytic infection. Fifteen to 20% of the fibroblastic cells (skin and muscle) contained T antigen at later passage levels when no evidence of productive infection could be detected; these cells did not, however, meet other criteria for transformation. Transformed rodent cells exhibited T antigen in 90-100% of cells. BK viral particles could be rescued from only one line of transformed rat cells. BK virus-transformed rat cells could not be transplanted, and the transformed hamster cells were poorly oncogenic for newborn and adult hamsters unless cheek pouch inoculation or immunosuppression was used, suggesting that the poor oncogenicity reported for BK virus in vivo may reflect immune recognition and rejection of transformed cells by the host.
AB - The effect of BK virus at high multiplicity was studied on cultures of hamster, rat, monkey, and human cells. BK virus induced multiple transforming events in cells of both rodent species. Rhesus monkey choroid plexus cells were insusceptible to the virus. Epithelial and fibroblastic human cell strains developed lytic infection. Fifteen to 20% of the fibroblastic cells (skin and muscle) contained T antigen at later passage levels when no evidence of productive infection could be detected; these cells did not, however, meet other criteria for transformation. Transformed rodent cells exhibited T antigen in 90-100% of cells. BK viral particles could be rescued from only one line of transformed rat cells. BK virus-transformed rat cells could not be transplanted, and the transformed hamster cells were poorly oncogenic for newborn and adult hamsters unless cheek pouch inoculation or immunosuppression was used, suggesting that the poor oncogenicity reported for BK virus in vivo may reflect immune recognition and rejection of transformed cells by the host.
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U2 - 10.3181/00379727-158-40220
DO - 10.3181/00379727-158-40220
M3 - Article
C2 - 210466
AN - SCOPUS:0018132039
SN - 0037-9727
VL - 158
SP - 437
EP - 441
JO - Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
JF - Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
IS - 3
ER -