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. 1970 Apr;5(4):451–457. doi: 10.1128/jvi.5.4.451-457.1970

Deoxyribonucleic Acid Replication in Simian Virus 40-Infected Cells

II. Detection and Characterization of Simian Virus 40 Pseudovirions

Arnold J Levine 1, Angelika K Teresky 1
PMCID: PMC376026  PMID: 4318087

Abstract

Purified simian virus 40 (SV40) virions, grown in primary African green monkey kidney cells labeled prior to infection with 3H-thymidine, contain a variable quantity of 3H-labeled deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This DNA is resistant to deoxyribonuclease, sediments at 250S, and is enclosed in a particle that can be precipitated with SV40-specific antiserum. DNA-DNA hybridization experiments demonstrate that this 3H-labeled component in purified SV40 virions is cellular DNA. When this 3H-labeled DNA is released from purified virus with sodium dodecyl sulfate, it has an average sedimentation constant of 14S. Sedimentation through neutral and alkaline sucrose gradients shows that this 14S DNA is composed of a collection of different sizes of DNA molecules that sediment between 11 and 15S. As a result of this size heterogeneity, SV40 virions containing cellular DNA (pseudovirions) have a variable DNA to capsid protein ratio and exhibit a spectrum of buoyant densities in a CsCl equilibrium gradient. Pseudovirions are enriched, relative to true virions, on the lighter density side of infectious SV40 virus banded to equilibrium in a CsCl gradient. Little or no cellular DNA was found in purified SV40 virus preparations grown in BSC-1 or CV-1 cells.

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