The virions of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) contained an enzyme that catalyzed the incorporation of ribonucleotides into ribonucleic acid (RNA). Optimal conditions for this polymerase activity were identical to the conditions for the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) polymerase, and both enzymes were active for longer times at 32 C than at 37 C. However, the specific activity of the NDV polymer...

In the last decade, we have gained significant understanding of the mechanism by which vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) specifically kills cancer cells. Dysregulation of translation and defective innate immunity are both thought to contribute to VSV oncolysis. Safety and efficacy are important objectives to consider in evaluating VSV as a therapy for malignant disease. Ongoing efforts may enab...

In doubly infected HeLa cells, poliovirus type 1 rapidly and completely dominates vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) plaque-forming unit production. Poliovirus type 1 shuts off incorporation of amino acids into VSV-specific proteins within 2 hr after superinfection of cells already committed to massive synthesis of VSV proteins. However, poliovirus type 1 appears to have little, if any, direct ef...

A rifampin-susceptible strain (VSV Rif+) was selected from the wild vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) population unsusceptible to rifampin. The VSV Rif+ was blocked in its intracellular replication in the presence of rifampin. In cells, rifampin affected primarily VSV Rif+ transcription, but to a different extent than in a cell-free system. In addition, a decrease in the amount of VSV Rif+ prote...

The effect of glucosamine on phenotypic mixing between vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and avian sarcoma virus (ASV) was studied. Phenotypic mixing decreased with increase in glucosamine concentration, and, in the presence of 20 mM glucosamine, was no longer detectable. In the presence of 20 mM glucosamine, cells still produced 10(2)--10(3) focus forming units (FFU) of ASV and 10(6) plaque for...

The structural proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) Indiana, VSV New Jersey, Chandipura virus and Piry virus were compared by using two different SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis systems. The G and M proteins of the Indiana serotype had different electrophoretic mobilities from the corresponding proteins of VSV New Jersey, Chandipura virus and Piry virus in a continuous-SDS (CONT-...

A comparison has been made of the membrane glycoproteins and glycopeptides from two enveloped viruses, Sindbis virus and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). Glycopeptides isolated from Sindbis virus and VSV grown in the same host appear to differ principally in the number of sialic acid residues per glycopeptide; when sialic acid is removed by mild acid treatment, the glycopeptides of the two vir...

To study the effect of virus-specific antisense RNA expression on vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infectivity in cultured cells, a HeLaS3 cell line constitutively expressing antisense RNA complimentary to a portion of the VSV large RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene (L) was established (HeAntiL). At an m.o.i. of 0.01 or 0.1, the HeAntiL cell line was able to reduce virus titre and delay virus-i...

Reciprocal complementation experiments in mouse L cells and BHK-2I cells show that the complementing temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), Indiana serotype, isolated from the HR wild-type strain, belong to groups I, III and IV (Flamand & Pringle, I97I). Since the homologies of ts mutants isolated from three different wild-type strains growing in different host ...

UNLABELLED High-grade tumors in the brain are among the deadliest of cancers. Here, we took a promising oncolytic virus, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), and tested the hypothesis that the neurotoxicity associated with the virus could be eliminated without blocking its oncolytic potential in the brain by replacing the neurotropic VSV glycoprotein with the glycoprotein from one of five differen...