Production of Plaques in Monolayer Tissue Cultures by Single Particles of an Animal Virus.

نویسنده

  • R Dulbecco
چکیده

For the first half century of animal virology, the major problem was lack of a simple method for quantitating infectious virus particles; the only method available at that time was some form or other of the serial-dilution end-point method in animals, all of which were both slow and expensive. Cloned cultured animal cells, which began to be available around 1950, provided Dulbecco with a new approach. He adapted the technique developed by Emory Ellis and Max Delbrück for assaying bacteriophage, that is, seeding serial dilutions of a given virus population onto a confluent lawn of host cells, to the measurement of Western equine encephalitis virus, and demonstrated that it also formed easily countable plaques in monolayers of chick embryo fibroblasts. The impact of this finding was enormous; animal virologists had been waiting for such a technique for decades. It was immediately found to be widely applicable to many types of cells and most viruses, gained quick acceptance, and is widely regarded as marking the beginning of molecular animal virology. Renato Dulbecco was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1975. W. K. JOKLIK

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 38 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1952