Abstract
— Does host cell reactivation (HCR) or UV-enhanced reactivation (UVER) of UV-irradiated Herpes simplex virus (UV-HSV) vary during the host mammalian cell cycle? The answer could be useful for interpreting UVER and/or the two-component nature of the UV-HSV survival curve. Procedures were developed for infection of mitotically-synchronized CV-1 monkey kidney cells. All virus survival curves determined at different cell cycle stages had two components with similar D0's and intercepts of the second components. Thus, no single stage of the host cell cycle was responsible for the second component of the virus survival curve. When the cells were UV-irradiated immediately prior to infection, enhanced survival of UV-HSV occurred for cell irradiation and virus infection initiated during late G1/early S phase or late S/early G2 phase but not during early G1 phase. For infection delayed by 24 h after cell irradiation, UVER was found at all investigated times. These results indicate that: (1) HCR is similar at all stages of the host cell cycle; and (2) the “induction” of UVER is not as rapid for cell-irradiation in early G1 phase. This latter observation may be one reason why normal, contact-inhibited cells do not express UVER as rapidly as faster growing, less contact-inhibited cells.
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