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The intracellular synthesis of virus-specific polypeptides in cells infected with the wild-type virus of HVJ (HVJ-W) (haemagglutinating virus of Japan—the Sendai strain of parainfluenza 1 virus) and with a temperature-sensitive(ts) mutant (HVJ-pB) derived from an HVJ carrier culture has been analysed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. At the permissive temperature (32° C), all of the known virus structural polypeptides were identified in cells infected with each strain of virus and in addition to the non-structural polypeptides B and C, another polypeptide at the region with a molecular weight of 26,000 to 27,000 (26 to 27K) could be detected in infected cells. At the non-permissive temperature (38° C), the synthesis of the polypeptide M was markedly restrained in cells infected with HVJ-pB, while other major virus polypeptides were present in approximately comparable amounts to cells infected with the wild-type virus. A non-structural polypeptide with a molecular weight of 105K was dominant ints mutant infected cells at higher temperatures and disappeared after temperature-shift from 38° to 32° C. The production of the non-structural polypeptides B and 27K was also temperature-sensitive. The molecular weights of the polypeptides B, M and 27K in HVJ-pB infected cells were larger than those of the corresponding polypeptides in HVJ-W infected cells. The synthesis of the M protein in HVJ-pB infected cells started just after lowering the incubation temperature and the newly made M protein was successfully incorporated into virus particles.
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Kimura, Y., Örvell, C. & Norrby, E. Characterization of the polypeptides synthesized in cells infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant derived from an HVJ (Sendai virus) carrier culture. Archives of Virology 61, 23–33 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01320588
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