title: Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus classification by electropherotype; validation by serological analyses and agarose gel electrophoresis.
abstract: Serological analyses of several different cytoplasmic polyhedrosis viruses (CPVs), including two type 1 CPVs from Bombyx mori, type 1 CPV from Dendrolimus spectabilis, type 12 CPV from Autographa gamma, type 2 CPV from Inachis io, type 5 CPV from Orgyia pseudotsugata and type 5 CPV from Heliothis armigera, demonstrated a close correlation between the antigenic properties of the polyhedrin or virus particle structural proteins and the genomic dsRNA electropherotypes. The dsRNAs of these viruses were analysed by electrophoresis in 3% and 10% polyacrylamide gels with a discontinuous Tris-HCl/Tris-glycine buffer system or by 1% agarose gel electrophoresis using a continuous Tris-acetate-EDTA buffer system. Electrophoretic analysis in agarose gels was found to be the most suitable for the classification of CPV isolates into electropherotypes, and the results obtained showed a close correlation with the observed antigenic relationships between different virus isolates. However, electrophoretic analysis in 10% polyacrylamide gels was most sensitive for the detection of intra-type variation and the presence of mixed virus isolates.
authors.affiliation: AFRC Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Woking, Surrey, U.K.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Mertens
authors.forename: N E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Crook
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rubinstein
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pedley
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Payne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005779:Immunodiffusion; D007304:Insect Viruses / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D000077183:Occlusion Body Matrix Proteins; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded / Q000032:analysis*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins; D014771:Virion / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000956:Antigens, Viral; D000077183:Occlusion Body Matrix Proteins; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded; D012367:RNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins; C009829:polyhedrin protein, Nucleopolyhedrovirus