WO1995031530A1 - Procede de propagation de virus aviaires - Google Patents

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WO1995031530A1
WO1995031530A1 PCT/US1995/005544 US9505544W WO9531530A1 WO 1995031530 A1 WO1995031530 A1 WO 1995031530A1 US 9505544 W US9505544 W US 9505544W WO 9531530 A1 WO9531530 A1 WO 9531530A1
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  • ILT infectious laryngotraceitis
  • ILT infectious laryngotraceitis
  • ILT is a respiratory disease of chickens that occurs worldwide and that ranges in severity from mild clinical signs, such as conjunctivitis and reduced egg production, to acute respiratory distress and high mortality. See, Hanson, L.E réelle et al. Lar ngotraceitis. In: Diseases of Poultry, 9th ed pp 485-495. Calnek, H. J. et al, eds.
  • the ILT virus is typically propagated either in chorioallantoic membrane of developing chicken embryos or in primary cells of avian origin.
  • the ILT virus was initially propagated in the chorioallantoic membrane of developing chicken embryos.
  • the ILT virus could be propagated in adult chicken kidney cells as well as in a variety of chicken embryo epithelial cells originating from kidney, liver, and lung. See Hanson, L.E. et al. supra, Tripathy, D.N. et al. supra and Hughes, C.S., et al., Avian Pathol. 27:295-303 (1988).
  • these cell cultures have a number of problems.
  • the present invention fills this need by providing for a method of propagating an avian virus in an avian hepatocellular carcinoma cell line.
  • the method comprises inoculating an avian virus capable of growing in an avian hepatocellular carcinoma cell line into the cell line under conditions in which the hepatocellular carcinoma cells are infected with the avian virus and the avian virus grows within the hepatocellular cells.
  • avian viruses which are able to grow in the hepatocellular cell line are infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) virus, reovirus/tenosynovitis virus, bursal disease virus, avian pox virus, and Newcastle disease virus.
  • ILT infectious laryngotracheitis
  • reovirus/tenosynovitis virus reovirus/tenosynovitis virus
  • bursal disease virus avian pox virus
  • Newcastle disease virus Newcastle disease virus.
  • the hepatocellular carcinoma cells originate from a chicken and is called an LMH cell line.
  • the LMH cell line has been deposited pursuant to the Budapest Treaty on the International Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure with the Patent Culture Depository of the American Type Culture Collection, 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Maryland, U.S. A under ATCC Accession No. CRL 11597. Also claimed are hepatocellular carcinoma cells infected with avian viruses.
  • a practical application of the present invention is the production of high avian virus titers for use in vaccines, or diagnostic kits.
  • the present invention is a method to propagate avian viruses in a heptocelluar carcinoma cell line.
  • Any avian virus which grows in a hepatocellular carcinoma cell line can be used.
  • a hepatocellular carcinoma cell line is a particularly valuable cell line in which to propagate viruses because of its viability, lack of variability and ease of maintenance.
  • a hepatocellular carcinoma cell line can be produced from one of the above-mentioned birds by administering diethylnitrosamine to the bird.
  • the birds are generally given drinking water containing 100 parts per million (ppm) diethylnitrosamine for 9 weeks and then weekly or biweekly intramuscular injections of 20 to 100 mg of diethylnitrosamine/kg for 30 weeks.
  • Tumorous tissues are then taken from several nodules of the liver separately, transferred onto plastic plates containing 5 ml of Waymouth's medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and kanamycin (6 ⁇ g/ml), minced, and cultured at 37°C in a CO2 incubator. The medium is changed the next day and twice weekly thereafter.
  • a preferred cell line which was produced in this manner is the LMH cell line produced from the liver of a chicken, Kawaguchi, T. et al. Cancer Research 47:4460-4464 (1987).
  • a hepatocellular carcinoma cell line such as the LMH cell line, is typically grown as cells attached to plastic or glass surfaces in a single monolayer of cells.
  • the cell line can be grown in any suitable medium such as, for example, Waymouth's Medium with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS), CELLGRO® (Mediatech Inc.) with 1-5% FCS, DME-F12 (Sigma Inc.) with 10% FCS, Eagles MEM (Gibco Inc.) with 10% FCS, Medium 199 (Gibco, Inc.) with tryptose phosphate broth and 10% FCS, and Medium 1640 with 10% FCS.
  • FCS fetal calf serum
  • CELLGRO® Mediatech Inc.
  • DME-F12 Sigma Inc.
  • Eagles MEM Gibco Inc.
  • Medium 199 Gibco, Inc.
  • FCS Medium 1640 with 10% FCS.
  • the carcinoma cells are passaged every 5 to 7 days using a 1:5 or 1:10 expansion ratio.
  • the resulting cell monolayers are not allowed to reach a high density before passage since they become difficult to trypsinize which would result in the subsequent formation of poor monolayers.
  • the monolayers are drained of medium and then rinsed briefly with a solution containing trypsin, preferably a mixture of trypsin and ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA).
  • the cell monolayer allowed is allowed to disperse and the individual cells are then diluted in growth medium to allow for a 1:5 or 1:10 seeding of new flasks.
  • the new cell cultures are then incubated at 37° C in a CO2 incubator.
  • An avian virus can be grown on the avian hepatocellular carcinoma cells by inoculating the cells with the virus.
  • To inoculate the cell line with an avian virus confluent or nearly confluent monolayers of cells are drained of medium and the virus inoculum added to the monolayer. The inoculum is allowed to adsorb for about an hour at 37°C and then fresh medium is added and the cultures returned to the incubator.
  • Virus-inoculated cultures are incubated until monolayers show maximum cytopathic effect (CPE).
  • CPE cytopathic effect
  • the ILT virus requires 1 to 3 days incubation depending on the titer of virus in the inoculum.
  • the ILT virus can be obtained by known methods as described by
  • ILT virus strains can be also obtained commercially from Schering-Plough Animal Health (Omaha, NE) and from the National Veterinary Services Laboratory, (Ames IA).
  • Additional viruses which have been propagated according to the process of the present invention are the infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, avian pox virus and the reovirus/tenosynovitis virus.
  • the Newcastle virus also known as the PMV-1 virus, is a species of the Paramyxovirus genus which is a member of the Paramyxoviridae virus family. Different isolates and strains of Newcastle disease virus may induce a number of different clinical manifestations including hemorrhagic lesions of the digestive tract, and produce neurologic and respiratory indications.
  • the avian pox virus is a common viral disease of domestic birds characterized by the development of discrete, nodular, proliferative skin lesions on the unfeathered parts of the body (cutaneous form) or fibrino- necrotic and proliferative lesions in the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract, mouth, and esophagus (diphtheritic form).
  • the avian reovirus/tenosynovitis is a virus which causes arthritis, and chronic respiratory disease in chickens.
  • the reovirus has also been associated with other disease conditions including ruptured gastrocnemius tendons, pericarditis, myocarditis, hydropericardium, cloacal pasting, early mortality in poults, and malabsorption syndrome.
  • Infectious bursal disease virus causes an acute, highly contagious viral infection of young chickens that has lymphoid tissue as its primary target with a special predilection for the bursa of Fabricius severely affecting the birds' immune system.
  • a virulent vaccine strain of ILT virus, L608, and a modified live virus, LT-IVAX® were provided by Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp. (Omaha, NE).
  • a reference challenge strain (NVSL ILTV) was obtained from the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (Ames, Iowa).
  • LMH cells were grown in Waymouth's MB 752/1 medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 10 ⁇ g/ml gentamicin (GIBCO BRL Life Technologies, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD). The cells were grown in monolayers and kept at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere of 4% C0 2 .
  • FBS fetal bovine serum
  • GEBCO BRL Life Technologies, Inc. Gaithersburg, MD
  • ILT virus-containing inocula from each of the three viral strains were allowed to adsorb to monolayers of three separate cultures of LMH cells for 60-120 min at ambient temperature with constant rocking. After adsorption, the LMH cell monolayers were overlaid with Waymouth's medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 10 ⁇ g gentamicin/ml.
  • FBS fetal bovine serum
  • the monolayers were frozen and thawed twice.
  • the resulting cell lysates were used as a source of viral inocula for future infections.
  • LTL608 in LMH cells, a cytopathic effect became evident, which was characterized by the formation of giant cells.
  • all virus strains produced plaques, which were approximately 1mm in diameter by 4-5 days postinfection.
  • a culture of the LMH cell line was inoculated with a strain of Reovirus/Tenosynovitis virus provided by Schering-Plough, Omaha, NE according to the procedure of Example 1. This procedure resulted in the successful propagation of Reovirus/Tenosynovitis virus in the LMH cell line as evidenced by a cytopathic effect of the growing virus in the LMH cells.
  • Example 5 A culture of the LMH cell line was inoculated with a strain of avian pox virus provided by Schering-Plough, Omaha, NE according to the procedure of Example 1. This procedure resulted in the successful propagation of avian pox virus in the LMH cell line as evidenced by a cytopathic effect of the growing virus in the LMH cells.
  • Example 5 A culture of the LMH cell line was inoculated with a strain of avian pox virus provided by Schering-Plough, Omaha, NE according to the procedure of Example 1. This procedure resulted in the successful propagation of avian pox virus in the LMH cell line as evidenced by a cytopathic effect of the growing virus in the LMH cells.
  • Example 5 A culture of the LMH cell line was inoculated with a strain of avian pox virus provided by Schering-Plough, Omaha, NE according to the procedure of Example 1. This procedure resulted in the successful propagation of avian pox virus in the LMH cell
  • a culture of the LMH cell line was inoculated with a strain of
  • Newcastle virus provided by Schering-Plough, Omaha, NE according to the procedure of Example 1. This procedure resulted in the successful propagation of Newcastle virus in the LMH cell line as evidenced by a cytopathic effect of the growing virus in the LMH cells.

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Un procédé permet de propager des virus aviaires dans une lignée cellulaire de carcinome hépatocellulaire aviaire. On peut citer comme exemples de virus pouvant être ainsi propagés ceux de la laryngotrachéite avairie, un réovirus ou le virus de la ténosynovite, celui de la bursite infectieuse, le poxvirus aviaire, et celui de la maladie de Newcastle. Les lignées cellulaires infectées par ces virus, notamment la lignée cellulaire LMH, sont aussi revendiquées dans le cadre de l'invention.
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