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M Onuma

Publications and source records attributed to M Onuma.

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PubMed1976

Relation between common antigen and membrane antigens associated with Marek's disease herpesvirus and turkey herpesvirus infections.

The appearance of two kinds of membrane antigen (MA) in Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDHV) or herpesvirus of turkey (HVT) infected cells was examined using antiserum to the common antigen (common-Ag). No early-appearing MA(EMA) was detected in these cultures until 16 hours post-inoculation, after which a number of cells in these cultures had late-appearing membrane antigen (LMA) as detected by immunofluorescence (IF). Fluids from cultures infected with these viruses were examined for the presence of the common-Ag by agar-gel precipitation (AGP) test. No common-Ag was detected until 16 hours, but after 24 hours, it was detected by AGP test. These results suggest that the common-Ag is related to LMA but not to EMA.

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PubMed1976

Properties of two isolated antigens associated with bovine leukemia virus infection.

We isolated an ether-resistant internal antigen and an ether-sensitive antigen previously described in relation to bovine leukemia virus infection. These two antigens have now been isolated by isoelectric focusing and concanavalin A affinity chromatography, respectively. The ether-resistant antigen exhibited isoelectric heterogeneity with a major peak at pH 7.2 and a minor peak at pH 6.2. Its molecular weight, estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), was 23,000 (p23), and it gave a sedimentation value of 2.3s. For material containing ether-sensitive antigen, analyzed by SDS-PAGE, protein staining revealed four components with molecular weights of 18,000, 25,000, 45,000, and 55,000. Two of these [45,000 (gp45) and 55,000 (gp55)] were stained by periodic acid-Schiff reagent. Isoelectric point and sedimentation value of the major glycoprotein (gp45) were pH 5.0 and 3.4s, respectively; no immunologic cross-reactivity was found between p23 and glycoprotein antigen.

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PubMed1975

Studies of Marek's disease herpesvirus and turkey herpesvirus specific common antigen which stimulates the production of neutralizing antibodies.

An agar-gel precipitation antigen prepared from the skin (feather-Ag) of chicken infected with JM strain of Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDHV) and cell extracts of cultures infected with either Type 2 plaque producing agent (PPA) of MDHV or turkey herpesvirus (HVT) (Type 2-Ag, HVT-Ag) had 1 precipitation line in common. Hyperimmune sera to the common antigen (common-Ag) neutralized to a greater extent by homologous antiserum. Absorption of HVT antiserum or hyperimmune serum to Type 2 PPA with common-Ag reduced their neutralizing activity. This reduction was almost complete with homologous antigen but less complete with heterologous antigen. The location of antigen in Type 2 PPA and HVT infected cells was determined using hyperimmune serum to the common-Ag in fluorescent antibody tests. Antigen mainly occurred in the cytoplasm of cells corresponding to the rounded refractile cells in the plaques, whereas unfixed cells showed antigen on the cytoplasmic membrane. The common-Ag associated with MDHV or HVT infections might be a virus structural component which is associated with the envelope.

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PubMed1975

Inhibition of bovine leukemia virus release.

Sera from 3 cows with the adult form of lymphosarcoma inhibited release of leukemia virus from a cell line of fetal lamb spleen infected with bovine leukemia virus (BLV). Sera from 5 to 7 cattle experimentally infected with BLV also suppressed virus release. The inhibition of virus release was reversible. Sera from cattle with the calf form and the thymic form of lymphosarcoma and normal bovine control sera did not repress virus release.

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PubMed1975

An ether-sensitive antigen associated with bovine leukemia virus infection.

An ether-sensitive antigen (es-Ag) associated with bovine leukemia virus infection was detected by immunodiffusion tests. This antigen was sensitive to ether, sodium periodate, and trypsin treatment. Based on column chromatography, es-Ag was a larger molecule than that of ether-resistant antigen (gs-Ag). With infection, precipitating antibody against es-Ag developed earlier than the precipitating antibody against the gs-Ag.

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PubMed1975

Pathogenic and serologic studies of Japanese quail infected with JM strain of Marek's disease herpesvirus.

Japanese quail were inoculated with Marek's disease herpesvirus at 1 day of age, and a second group of the same age was infected by contact with inoculated quail. A third group raised in our laboratory as a source of hatching eggs was accidentally infected with Marek's disease (MD). All quail were observed and examined for periods up to 360 days; the usual clinical signs of MD were not observed. However, the birds were susceptible to MD infection because of the evidence that: 1) The MD-specific agar gel-preceipitation (AGP) antigen was found in the feather tips or feather follicular epithelium of some of them; 2) the MD-specific AGP antibody was found in 6 of 57 exposed to MD; and 3) the virus was recovered from 4 MD-exposed birds by subpassage of their kidney cultures into quail embryo fibroblasts. The specificity of the AGP antigen or antibody in MD-infected quail was examined by the line of identity and cross-absorption tests. The antigen specificity was tested against similar to 700 sera from chickens and quail. Although most of these sera reacted with quail-positive antigen (QPA) prepared from MD-infected quail, some sera from infected or uninfected normal chickens reacted nonspecifically with QPA and with an antigen prepared from normal quail. By gel filtration on Sephadex G-150, the specific antigenic component could be separated from the nonspecific component(s) in QPA.

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PubMed1974