Abstract
Hantaviruses are rodent-borne pathogens with a segmented single-stranded RNA genome of negative polarity. Spontaneous occurrence of variants with genetic heterogeneity have been observed both in vivo and in vitro. The objective of this study was to establish a method for the cloning of genetically homogenous hantaviruses which can be used for subsequent functional studies. Infected VeroE6 cells were incubated with an agarose/medium overlay to prevent uncontrolled distribution of de novo synthesized virus. Thereafter, the overlay was removed and stored for isolation of the diffused virus. The cell layer was fixed and viral antigen-containing foci were detected by immunochemistry. The relative location of the foci on the culture dish was used to trap individual virus clones in the corresponding overlay. The clones were picked and used for re-infection. According to this novel protocol three different hantaviruses, i.e. Hantaan, Puumala, and Tula virus, were purified. In the course of purification the titers of the resulting virus stocks were increased by 10-1000-fold. In addition, this method was used to purify a minor Puumala virus variant from a parental stock containing a mixture of two variants. Taken together, the method pre...Continue Reading
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