HeLa cells serially cultivated in the hypertonic growth medium (HeLa-O200 cells) were examined for susceptibility to polioviruses. Then they were used to investigate influences of hypertonic maintenance medium on virus production and cytopathic effect.
1) The high osmotic pressure of the hypertonic maintenance medium had little effect on the reproduction of the Mahoney and LSc, 2 ab strains, and on the cytopathic effects of the strains used in the present studies, except the Leon, 12 ab strain. The cytopathic effect of the Leon, 12 ab strain was inhibited to some degree in this medium.
2) The cytopathic effects of polioviruses appeared more slowly on HeLa-O200 cells than on HeLa cells. The attenuated strains revealed lower CP titers on HeLa-O200 cells at the final observation. The virulent strains varied in behavior from one strain to anoter. The Mahoney strain showed equal CP titers on both cell cultures at the final observation, although the titers determined on HeLa-O200 cells on the 1st and 2nd days were about 2 log lower than those on HeLa cells.
The infective titer of the MEF-1 strain estimated on HeLa-O200 cells was always lower than that on HeLa cells, as was seen in the case of the attenuated strains. The titer of the Saukett strain estimated on HeLa-O200 cells varied with the lot of cell culture used for estimation.
3) In plaque assay the Mahoney strain showed results similar to those obtained by the tube titration. There was no difference in plaque formation between the two types of cells.
The titer in PFU of the LSc, 2 ab strain determined on HeLa-O200 cells was a little lower than that on HeLa cells, but the difference in PFU titer was not so apparent as that in tube titration between HeLa cells and HeLa-O200 cells.
4) When HeLa-O200 cells were cultivated in the isotonic medium over 2 generations, they reached the same level of susceptibility to polioviruses as HeLa cells.
It was considered that the susceptibility of HeLa-O200 cells to polioviruses might have been altered not genetically but physiologically by the hypertonic cultivation.
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