Production of a toxin by Vibrio parahaemolyticus Kanagawa-phenomenon negative strains was examined. Ammonium sulfate fractions of broth culture filtrates were dialyzed, concentrated by lyophilization, and tested for toxic effects by mouse intraperitoneal injection. One fraction, which we think is a toxin, was isolated from a broth culture filtrate of V. parahaemolyticus FC 1011 (a Kanagawa-phenomenon negative strain) and consistently produced lethal effects in mice at high concentrations and diarrhea in lower concentrations. The toxin was assayed for mouse LD₅₀ and ability to produce diarrhea via forced feeding in mice. V. parahaemolyticus FC 1011 toxin was found to be protein, to be inactivated by heat or trypsin hydrolysis, and to produce positive skin permeability reactions in rabbits. However, it failed to induce fluid accumulation in ligated ileal loops in rabbits.

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The processes of cytoplasmic budding in Euproctis subflava nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) were investigated, and comparisons were made among three types of envelopes which were acquired by, 1) de novo morphogenesis in the nuclei, 2) nuclear budding, and 3) cytoplasmic budding. The direction of nucleocapsids in the envelope was the same in these three modes of envelopment ; the envelopment seemed to occur from a nipple end which was at one extremity of the nucleocapsid. After the envelopment, electron-dense materials were seen between the envelope and nucleocapsid, though their contents and morphological features were different among the three types of envelopes. However, these materials seemed to function similarly as a mediator between the envelope and nucleocapsid as have been observed in many vertebrate viruses which acquire envelopes.
A marked difference among the three types of envelope was the characteristic cap-shaped structures with spikes which were seen only on the surface of envelope derived from the plasma membrane. After cytoplasmic budding, nucleocapsids enveloped by this way were located on the basement membrane or liberated in the hemocoel, and then they appeared to enter neighboring healthy cells via viropexis with the spike end at the head. At the sites where these spikes came into contact with healthy cells, coated vesicle-like structures were observed inside the plasma membrane. Occasionaly, incomplete particles which lacked nucleocapsids were also budded through the plasma membrane and released into extracellular space.

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Several clones of SV40 transformed CV-1 cells have been characterized for the production of T- and V-antigens and for the state of viral genome. The transformed CV-1 cells failed to produce infectious virions as assayed after sonication or cocultivation and fusion with normal CV-1 cells, and were resistant to superinfection by SV40. Some clones of the transformed cells contained V-antigens. The population of V-antigen positive cells varied from 0 to 100% depending on the passage number while the T-antigen positive cells were always 100%. The virions isolated from the transformed cells were similar in morphology to complete SV40, but lighter in density than complete SV40. In one clone, a small amount of SV40 DNA was detectable in a free state while a large proportion of the DNA hybridizable with SV40 ³H cRNA was linearly integrated into the cell DNA. The free SV40 DNA was noninfectious, closed circular DNA with a size smaller than infectious SV40 DNA component I. Since the cell extracts of the transformed cells contained an agent (s) which induced T- and V-antigens in normal CV-1 cells, it was suggested that the SV40 transformed CV-1 cells contained free as well as integrated defective SV40 genomes responsible for the synthesis of T- and V-antigens.

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The target organs of mice immunized with the respective syngeneic tissue extracts together with the capsular polysaccharide of Klebsiella pneumoniae (CPS-K) as a powerful adjuvant were examined for production of lesions. In 15 out of 24 mice injected three times or more with syngeneic eyeball extracts and CPS-K adjuvant at intervals approximately 30 days, severe eyeball lesions developed in which the normal structure was almost completely lost. A large part of the eyeball tissue of these mice was replaced by infiltration with cells such as lymphocytes, plasma cells and other mononuclear cells and by connective tissue. No definite eye lesions developed in mice injected with CPS-K alone, eyeball extracts alone or eyeball extracts emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA). In all of mice injected four times with thyroid gland extracts and CPS-K at intervals of approximately 30 days, definite thyroid gland lesions were produced. In three out of five mice of this group, the thyroid lesions were so severe that the normal thyroid follicular structure was almost completely lost, and a large part of the thyroid gland was replaced by infiltration with lymphocytes, plasma cells and other mononuclear cells and in part by connective tissue. In only one out of five mice injected with thyroid gland extracts emulsified in CFA, definite but milder thyroid gland lesions developed. No definite thyroid lesions developed in the remaining four mice of this group and also in any of the mice injected with thyroid gland extracts alone or CPS-K alone. Repeated injections of lymphoid tissue extracts and CPS-K also induced pathological changes in the spleen and lymph nodes, although less marked than those in the cases of the eyes and thyroid gland. The most remarkable change was a decrease in numbers of small lymphocytes at the areas surrounding the central arterioles in the white pulp of the spleen and the post-capillary venules in the cortex of the lymph nodes. From these results it has been concluded that our system can provide new and useful models for autoimmune diseases in man.

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