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Virology
Exam 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/04/2009

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Louis Pasteur
Definition
Studied Rabies in dogs. difference between affect of live virus and "dead" virus
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Iwanowski
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1892, tabacco mosaic plant, infective bacteria free filtrate.
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Beigerinck
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1898, also tobacco mosaic plant, named substance that caused the disease "virus"
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Loeffler & Frosch
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1898, discovered first animal virus, foot and mouth disease
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Rous
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1911, chicken tumors when filtered will pass to another chicken
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Shope
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1933, cottontail rabbits, skin papaloma, when filtered, transferable in rabbits
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Twort; D' Herelle
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showed that virus could kill bacteria, published work in NYtimes on bacteriaphage, antibiotic
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Stanley
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1935, crystalized a virus, viruses cant be cells
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Hershey & Chase
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Labeled nucleic acid and protein, let attach to bacteria, strained for what was inside: Nucleic Acid
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Fiers
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1976, sequenced entire bacteriaphage
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Living or Dead?
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Stanley: could be crystalized = dead
Hershey & Chase: used viruses to define living
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Organism
Definition
independent unit of integrated and interdependent structures & functions
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Organism
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the unit element of a continuous lineage with an individual evolutionary history
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Life
Definition
a complex set of processes resulting from the actuation of the instructions encoded in the genome
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Virion
Definition
refers only to structure of virus, does not exist in the cell because structure has been lost
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Central Dogma of Biology
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DNA is the basis of life, it is replicated to make more DNA, it is transcribed to make mRNA and it is then translated to make proteins
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Protein shell
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is encoded by virus, called capsid, 3-50 species of protein
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Capsid important for:
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protecting nucleic acid from degradation, getting virus into a cell, specificity of attachment, packaging or condensation of nucleic acid
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Envelope
Definition
lipid bilayer, not coded by virus,
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Carbohydrates
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not made by virus, glycosylated proteins, spikes or peplomers, attachment to cells
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Cubic Symmetry
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any structure having more than one axis about which it can be rotated and have an identical structure: icoshedral
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icosahedron
Definition
5:3:2 symmetry. 20 triangular faces, 12 vertices, 30 sides. very strong
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protomer
Definition
structural subunit
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Helical structure
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round or threadlike appearance, subunits appear as a spiral around nucleic acid
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Ways to visualize virus
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Electron microscopy: shadow casting, negative staining, thin sectioning, freeze fracture. Also: X-ray diffraction
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Characteristics for Classification
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Disease symptoms (older), morphology (size, shape), physiochemical properties (pH), lipids & carbohydrates, genome organization and replication, antigenic properties, biological properties (host range, transmission).
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Naming
Definition
Order -virales
 Family -viridae
 Subfamily -virinae
 Genera -virus
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Naming Herpes simplex 1 virus
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Family: Poxviridae
– Genus: Orthopoxvirus
– Species: variola
– Family: Herpesviridae
– Subfamily: Alphaherpesvirinae
– Genus: Simplexvirus
– Species: human herpesvirus 1
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Why we might use eggs as a system to propagate virus
Definition
– to get large amounts of virus (influenza)
– to assay for viruses (pox viruses)
– to isolate viruses (some enteroviruses)
– to detect unknown viruses
– to produce vaccines (measles)
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Why we might use mice as a system to propagate virus
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To isolate virus: difference between newborn, suckling, and adult mice
to titrate virus
often used as models for human disease
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Enders, Robbins, Weller
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1949, grew poliovirus on cell culture
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Dulbecco and Vogt
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1952, plague assay
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why we would use cell culture to propagate virus
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to isolate virus
To produce more
to make vaccines
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3 types of cell culture
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Primary, Diploid, continuous
Primary: Came directly from tissue. most accurate, but difficult to get
Diploid: Arises from primary, not immortal, accurate
Continuous: immortal cell lines, from tumor cells or primary, not accurate
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Microscopic Detection
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Direct: Electron microscopy, immune electron microscopy
Light: pathology, cytopathology, CPE, Hemadsorption
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Detection of Antigen
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1) with antibody: RIA, Elisa, fluorescent, complement fixation, western blot, neutralization
2) Hemagluttination
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Detection of Antibody
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RIA, Elisa, fluorescent antibody, complement fixation, neutralization, Hemagluttination- inhibition (HAI)
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Detection of Viral Nucleic Acid
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nucleic acid hybridization: southern blot, dot blot, in situ, microchip
PCR, Restriction Endonuclease digestion, assays for enzyme activity
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Purification of Viruses: Differential ________
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Centrifugation: High speed then low speed,
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Purification of Viruses: ______ out
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Salting Out: ammonium sulfate or polyethylene glycol
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Purification of Viruses: ____-____ Sedimentaion
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Rate-Zonal Sedimentation: particle buoyant density, size and shape
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Purification of Viruses: Equilibrium Density of ______ Sedimentation
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Isopycnic Sedimentation: separate based on density, Cs salts
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Purification of Viruses: Crystalization
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Crystals will be pure
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Quantitative Assays
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Hemagluttination, Direct Particle Counts, Infectivity Assays
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Infectivity Assays
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Plaque Assays, Transformation Assays, Pock Counts
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Quantal Assay
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End Point Titrations: Does not determine the number of virus particles present, but if there are any at all. End point is when 50% of host infected
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Prion
Definition
Proteinaceous Infectious, Bovine spongiform encephalopathies, CJD, Slow progressive neurological degeneration, alters existing surface proteins in CNS
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