TY - JOUR
T1 - Parainfluenza virus infection of cultured airway epithelial cells
AU - Jacoby, David B.
AU - Nadel, Jay A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NIH PPG HL-24136, and by grants from the California Research and Medical Education Fund and from the American Lung Association.
PY - 1989/11
Y1 - 1989/11
N2 - Studies of the cellular effects of respiratory viruses have generally used cultures of non-airway (particularly renal) epithelial cells. This requires the assumption that, despite the marked differences between renal epithelium and airway epithelium, the virus-host cell interactions in cultures of renal epithelium will be relevant to those in airway epithelium. To study viral infection of airway epithelial cells, we removed the epithelial cells from ferret tracheas using 0.1% pronase solution, and plated them at a density of 5 × 105 cells/cm2 in collagen-coated plastic tissue culture wells. Cultures grew to confluence after 5-7 days. Viral inocula, consisting of supernatants from parainfluenza type 1-infected rhesus monkey kidney cell monolayers, were added to the culture medium in a concentration 103 times that sufficient to produce infection in 50% of rhesus monkey kidney monolayers (TCID50). Cytopathic changes, consisting of cellular elongation and detachment, became apparent after 3-6 days, at which time the medium contained 5 × 108 TCID50/ml. The monolayer appeared to be uniformly infected as revealed by adsorption of guinea pig erythrocytes. Specific immunofluorescence revealed uniformly positive staining for parainfluenza type 1 antigens. The ability to infect pure cultures of airway epithelial cells with viruses will allow us to examine the effects of these viruses on epithelial cell function, and to study virus-host cell interactions in cell cultures derived from the natural host cell.
AB - Studies of the cellular effects of respiratory viruses have generally used cultures of non-airway (particularly renal) epithelial cells. This requires the assumption that, despite the marked differences between renal epithelium and airway epithelium, the virus-host cell interactions in cultures of renal epithelium will be relevant to those in airway epithelium. To study viral infection of airway epithelial cells, we removed the epithelial cells from ferret tracheas using 0.1% pronase solution, and plated them at a density of 5 × 105 cells/cm2 in collagen-coated plastic tissue culture wells. Cultures grew to confluence after 5-7 days. Viral inocula, consisting of supernatants from parainfluenza type 1-infected rhesus monkey kidney cell monolayers, were added to the culture medium in a concentration 103 times that sufficient to produce infection in 50% of rhesus monkey kidney monolayers (TCID50). Cytopathic changes, consisting of cellular elongation and detachment, became apparent after 3-6 days, at which time the medium contained 5 × 108 TCID50/ml. The monolayer appeared to be uniformly infected as revealed by adsorption of guinea pig erythrocytes. Specific immunofluorescence revealed uniformly positive staining for parainfluenza type 1 antigens. The ability to infect pure cultures of airway epithelial cells with viruses will allow us to examine the effects of these viruses on epithelial cell function, and to study virus-host cell interactions in cell cultures derived from the natural host cell.
KW - Airway
KW - Cell-culture
KW - Epithelium
KW - Parainfluenza
KW - Virus
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U2 - 10.1016/0166-0934(89)90149-3
DO - 10.1016/0166-0934(89)90149-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 2559102
AN - SCOPUS:0024449398
SN - 0166-0934
VL - 26
SP - 199
EP - 208
JO - Journal of Virological Methods
JF - Journal of Virological Methods
IS - 2
ER -