A simple method for clonal selection of hepatitis A virus based on recovery of virus from radioimmunofocus overlays
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A simple method for clonal selection of hepatitis A virus based on recovery of virus from radioimmunofocus overlays
Abstract
Hepatitis A virus (HAV), a non-cytopathic picornavirus, has been quantitated in cell culture by autoradiographic detection of foci of viral replication developing beneath an agarose overlay following fixation and 'staining' of the cell sheet with radiolabelled antibody (radioimmunofocus assay). Using a modification of this basic technique, a clonal variant of HM-175 strain HAV was isolated from agarose overlying individual radioimmunofoci. Virus recovered from the agarose was amplified in small volume cultures of BS-C-1 cells and identified in supernatant culture fluids by cDNA-RNA hybridization. No virus was recovered from agarose which did not overlie a focus of viral replication. This method offers a simple, yet relatively rapid and certain means of selecting clonal variants of non-plaquing viruses such as hepatitis A virus.
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