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R Iliescu

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Investigations in the field of recombinant DNA technology performed in the "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology.

A brief review is provided of the investigations in the field of recombinant DNA technology started in 1979 in the Central Laboratory for Nucleic Acids within the "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology. The research efforts have been focused on the following main objectives: optimization of vector extraction, isolation and purification of restriction enzymes and of DNA ligase T4, transformation and transfection experiments, construction of recombinant DNA.

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Investigation of the effect of cellular and viral nucleic acids on certain virus infections. Note 2. Effect of nucleic acids on virus multiplication in cell cultures.

Treatment of cell cultures with different natural nucleic acids prior to inoculation of herpes simplex virus type 1 led in certain cases to an obvious reduction in infectant titer. The reduction was maximum at a dose of 50 micrograms nucleic acid/culture tube and it was not dependent on the nature of the nucleic acid preparation. The antiviral effect of nucleic acids was enhanced by complexation with intercalation agents such as ethidium bromide or violamycin BI. No detectable amounts of interferon could be made evident in cell cultures treated with chromosomal DNA under conditions leading to a reduction by 1.75 log in infectant titer.

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Polypeptide changes in Sendai virus-infected cells.

The appearance of virus-specific proteins in Sendai virus-infected chick embryo fibroblasts and chorioallantoic membrane cells was studied by high resolution SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. All the structural Sendai virus polypeptides, as well as the nonstructural virus polypeptide termed B could be identified in the total lysates of infected cells. Only the structural virus polypeptides NP, P and M were found in the ribosome fraction of virus-infected cells; these additional polypeptides were removed from the ribosome surface by washing the 1 M NH4Cl.

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The effect of violamycin BI on different biological systems. Note I. The action of violamycin BI on cell cultures infected or not with herpes simplex virus type 1.

The effect of violamycin BI (VBI) was investigated in different cell substrates, infected or not with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), strains VR3 and Rapp-1. The cytotoxic dose of VBI was established in calf kidney and human embryo cell cultures. Low drug concentrations induced moderate cytotoxic changes, allowing the study of the cells for 4-6 days. The action of VBI on HSV-1 was evident mostly in the early phases of the virus multiplication cycle. The antiviral effect of VBI was due both to the direct action of the drug on HSV and to its interaction with the nucleic acids of the host cells supporting HSV multiplication in their nuclei.

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Effect of biologically active compounds (anthracyclines and ethidium bromide) on some membrane-mediated processes in the course of viral infection. Investigations on a prokaryotic (bacteriophage-bacterium) system.

Anthracycline antibiotics--violamycin B1 and adriamycin--have an obvious effect on the efficiency of phage lambda L47.1 DNA transfection into E. coli Q358 cells. Treatment with anthracyclines of either phage DNA or bacterial cells results in a marked decrease in the number of transfectants per microgram DNA. On the other hand, adsorption of phage lambda gt WES to E. coli LE392 is considerably modified by exposure to anthracyclines of either the phage or the host cells.

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Modulating the expression of some biological membrane glycoconjugates by a Nocardia opaca fraction.

By some hemagglutination (HA) studies it was proved that NLD (the lysozyme digest fraction of Nocardia opaca) interacts with the Sendai virus envelope glycoproteic receptors, but not with those of the Beijing 353/89 H3N2) Influenza virus. Very likely the inhibition is due to the presence of some GAL lectins in NLD: The erythrocytes agglutinability (by the Sendai virus and by the Beijing 353/89 H3N2) Influenza virus is enhanced by their incubation with galactose.

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