Abstract
Effects of high hydrostatic pressure on the activity of infectious bursal disease virus(IBDV) was described. The infectivity of IBDV decreased with the increasing of pressure and pressurizing time and may be completely lost, indicated by the tests with chicken embryo fibrablast cell and young chicken as models. However, pressure-inactivated IBDV still remained high immunogenicity and might induce high levels of protecting serum antibody. Fluorescence spectroscopy showed obvious differences between the structures of native and pressurized IBDV, similar with the dissociation-reassociation of oligomeric proteins under high pressure. The changes of pressurized IBDV were also directly observed with electron microscopy. These results suggest that pressure-inactivated IBDV may be used as a vaccine.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 336 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1999 |
Keywords
- High hydrostatic pressure
- Immunogenicity
- Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV)
- Vaccine
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics