A RADIOBIOLOGICAL ANALOGY BETWEEN MEASLES VIRUS AND TEMPERATURE PHAGES

Temperature-Sensitive Mutants of Measles Virus

were isolated after mutagenesis by 5-azacytidine, 5-fluorouracil, or proflavine. The restricted replication of all mutants at 39 C was blocked subsequent to cell penetration and could not be attributed to heat inactivation of virus infectivity. Complementation analysis was made possible through the use of poly-L-ornithine. The members of one complementation group exhibited wild-type RNA synthes...

Excessive Attenuation of Measles Virus as a Possible Cause of Failure in Measles Immunization

Radiobiological Studies of Vaccinia Virus.

Radiation studies of vaccinia virus were carried out using two types of radiation, Coao gamma rays and ultraviolet light (UVL). When virus particles were irradiated with gamma rays a two-component survival curve was obtained. The capacity of Earle’s L cells to support the growth of vaccinia virus was relatively sensitive to gamma rays. Infectious centres formed by infecting L cells with vaccini...

Complementation analysis of measles virus temperature-sensitive mutants.

Two sets of independently isolated measles virus temperature-sensitive mutants were quantitatively tested for complementation. Analysis of the nine possible combinations of representative mutants indicated that only one pair of mutants is noncomplementing. Thus, the measles virus mutants studied to date define five complementation groups.

[Isolation of temperature-sensitive mutants of measles virus].

Measles virus differs from other members of paramyxoviruses in its prolonged growth cycle1), its degree of involvement of the cell nucleus2), its lack of neuraminidase3) and the sedimentability of its RNA4). We have undertaken a study of mutants of this virus in the hope that the study might circumvent some of the problems encountered with temperaturesensitive (ts) mutants of other paramyxoviru...