Abstract
A new continuous cell line from ovarian tissue of commercial variety “Kolar Gold” of silkworm, Bombyx mori, was established and designated as DZNU-Bm-12. The tissue was grown in MGM-448 insect cell culture medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 3% heat-inactivated B. mori hemolymph at 25 ± 1°C. The migration of partially attached small round refractive cells from the fragments of ovarioles began from the beginning of explantation. The cells multiplied partially attached in the primary culture initially, and some of them become freely suspended after 20 passages. The cells were adapted to MGM-448 and TNM-FH media each with 10% FBS and the population doubling time of cell line was about 36 and 24 hr, respectively. The chromosome number was near diploid at initial passages and slightly increased at 176th passage, but a few tetraploids and hexaploids were also observed. DNA profiles using simple sequence repeat loci established the differences between DZNU-Bm-12 and DZNU-Bm-1 and most widely used Bm-5 and BmN cell lines. The cell line was found susceptible to B. mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) with 85–90% of the cells harboring BmNPV and having an average of 3–17 OBs/infected cell. We suggest the usefulness of this cell line in BmNPV-based baculoviral expression system and also for studying in vitro virus replication.
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Authors are thankful to M. M. Rai and M. K. Rathod for providing healthy larvae for establishing the cultures and BmNPV-infected larvae to obtain inoculum during the study. The authors also thank the reviewers and Associate Editor for their critical and constructive comments to strengthen the paper. The research reported in this paper is partially supported by UGC, New Delhi to AMK [Project No. F. 31-222/2005(SR)].
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Khurad, A.M., Zhang, MJ., Deshmukh, C.G. et al. A new continuous cell line from larval ovaries of silkworm, Bombyx mori . In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Animal 45, 414–419 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-009-9197-2
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