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Comparative Study of the Interaction of Polyoma and Other Hemagglutinating Viruses with an Isolated Bovine Mucoprotein¹

From the Department of Epidemiology and Virus Laboratory, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Abstract

A number of hemagglutinating viruses were compared with polyoma virus for their ability to react with mucoprotein isolated from bovine serum. Hemagglutination by polyoma and mumps viruses and the PR8, A/57, swine, and Tokyo B strains of influenza virus was inhibited by the mucoprotein, whereas that of Sendai, Newcastle disease, ECHO (3, 9, 10, 11) viruses, and the A/53, C, and Lee strains of influenza virus were not. The characteristics of the various viral hemagglutination reactions were compared with the corresponding reactions between virus and mucoprotein. The temperature sensitive, reversible hemagglutination reaction of polyoma virus, could be accounted for in terms of the nature of the complex it forms with mucoprotein.

Footnotes

¹ Aided by a grant from The National Foundation.

² Present address: Institute of Virology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

³ S. Halperen is a trainee under a training grant for microbiologists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.