| Budget Amount *help |
¥6,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Measles virus (MV) is efficiently isolated from patients with measles by using B95a cells, a marmoset B cell line. Recent wildtype MV strains isoleted using B95a cells did not produce cytopathic efffects in any of CD46^+ primate cell lines examined (except B95a cells), nor did they induce downregulation of CD46. Transfection of the hemagglutinin (H) and fusion (F) genes of the Edmonston strain of MV produced syncytia in HeLa, Cos and B95a cells. By contrast, the expression of the H gene from the two wildtype strains, together with the F gene of the Edmonston strain, resulted in syncytium production in B95a cells, but not in HeLa and Cos cells. Cocultivation of Cos cells expressing the wild-type H protein and the Edmonston strain F protein with B95a cells, but not with Hela, results suggest that these recent MV isolates may use a molecule Jurkat or BJAB cells, generated large syncytia. The results suggest that these recent MV isolates may use a molecule other than CD46 as the vellular receptor or require another coreceptor to infect cells. We are currently in a process of identifying the molecule present in B95a cells that enables these recent wild-type MV strains to infect cells.
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