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B Dietzschold

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PubMed1977

Rabies virus glycoprotein. II. Biological and serological characterization.

Purified rabies virus glycoprotein (G) was shown by complement fixation and immunodiffusion tests to be a second distinct antigen of the virus. It it the only structural protein of the virus that induces the formation of virus-neutralizing antibodies and which confers immunity to animals. When the G protein is taken as antigen, the complement fixation test can be used for the assay of virus-neutralizing antibodies. The total protective activity of the virus was recovered in the purified G protein preparation. The protective activity of G protein increased with purification: 9 ng of G protein was required to protect 50% of the mice as compared to 1.63 micrograms of the virus. Selective immunofluorescent membrane staining and immunocytolysis of rabies virus-infected cells were shown to be G protein specific. Due to its purity and potency, the G protein preparation can be considered the ideal human antirabies vaccine.

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PubMed1977

Induction and biological properties of defective interfering particles of rabies virus.

A method for obtaining large quantities of defective interfering (DI) rabies virus particles that fulfill all the criteria delineated by Huang and Baltimore (1970) is described. The purified rabies DI virion was found to be much shorter (60 to 80 nm) than the complete virion (180 nm) and to have a viral genome of about half the size of normal rabies RNA but with all of the structural proteins of standard virions. Rabies DI virions were noninfectious for both cells in culture and for animals. As determined by in vitro and in vivo techniques, interference with the replication of standard virus was specific to rabies virus. The possible role of rabies DI virion in the pathogenicity of rabies virus infection and in the establishment of attenuated strains for use as live rabies vaccines is discussed.

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PubMed1977

Oligosaccharides of the glycoprotein of rabies virus.

The number of oligosaccharide side chains on rabies virus glycoprotein (G-protein) was investigated. Analysis of glycopeptides obtained by protease digestion of desialated G-protein revealed three discrete glycopeptides. Comparison of the protease digestion products from desialated and from untreated G-protein indicated a heterogeneity among the glycopeptides in the sialic acid content. Two major tryptic glycopeptides were isolated from desialated rabies virus G-protein and analyzed after protease digestion; one contained two oligosaccharide side chains and the other contained a single oligosaccharide side chain.

Glycopeptides↗
PubMed1977

Antibody-independent detection of virus-specific glycoprotein synthesis is oncornavirus-infected cells.

A method is described for detecting the synthesis of avian and murine oncornavirus-specific glycoproteins without the use of antibodies raised against viral structural proteins. As applied to cells infected with avian tumor virus, the method served to resolve pr90, the precursor of the major envelope glycoprotein. A virus-specific glycoprotein of about 85,000 daltons, which has several properties expected to a precursor to gp69/71, was detected in cells infected with murine leukemia virus.

Alpharetrovirus↗
PubMed1975

Some investigations on the adjuvant mechanism of DEAE dextran.

In vitro it was shown that adsorption of inactivated FMDV onto DEAE-D kieselgur columns did not occur in the presence of 0.1--0.15M NaCl. These NaCl concentrations are present in DEAE-D/FMDV vaccines and in the tissues of animals. Therefore, adsorption of virus antigen does not appear to be responsible for the adjuvant effect of DEAE-D. In pigs it was demonstrated that DEAE-D exerts its optimal adjuvant effect, as measured by the formation of neutralizing antibodies and protection against challenge infection, when injected together with inactivated FMDV as vaccine. Apart from this, a good adjuvant effect (group immunity 75--100 per cent) was evoked in about one half and a moderate effect (group immunity 50--70 per cent) in about a quarter of the inoculated animals even if DEAE-D was separately injected locally and temporally from the inactivated virus. With regard to immunity it apparently does not matter whether DEAE-D or inactivated virus was given first, but an interval of 48 hours or 4 days between injection seemed to be more favourable than one of 24 hours. With regard to the formation of neutralizing antibodies the situation is comparable to that of immunity with the exception that a time interval of 24 hours between the application of DEAE-D and inactivated virus or vice versa was as good as that of 48 hours or 4 days. The results are discussed in regard to the possible mechanism of the adjuvant effect of DEAE-D on the cellular level.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1974

Serological characterization of the three major proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus.

The three major proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus-Indiana, glycoprotein (G), nucleoprotein (N), and membrane protein (M), were isolated and characterized by means of specific monocomponent antisera. G, N, and M proteins are distinct, nonrelated antigens with specific serological properties. The G protein is the only antigen inducing the formation of virus-neutralizing antibodies and was shown to confer immunity to mice. Specific complement-fixing and precipitating activity was demonstrated for each of the three antisera. The future use of isolated rhabdovirus components and of monospecific antisera is considered for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes as well as for virus strain differentiation and classification work.

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PubMed1973

Rabies group-specific ribonucleoprotein antigen and a test system for grouping and typing of rhabdoviruses.

Cell-associated ribonucleoprotein (RNP) was isolated from BHK-21 cells infected with several strains of rabies and rabies-related viruses. The RNP-antigen from rabies and related viruses induced the formation of complement-fixing, precipitating, and immunofluorescent antibodies, and proved to be the group-specific antigen common to all rabies viruses. Antigens of the envelope which induce virus-neutralizing antibodies are apparently determinative for the serotype of a virus as evidenced by two-way neutralization tests. A combination of these methods seems to be a useful approach to the serological grouping and typing of rhabdoviruses.

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