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Studies on Heterotypic Interference between Influenza A and B Viruses: A Differential Inhibition of the Synthesis of Viral Proteins and RNAs

J. Petrik

The D. I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Mixed infection of MDCK cells with influenza A and influenza B viruses leads to a reduction in the rate of synthesis of haemagglutinin (HA) and nucleoprotein (NP) as compared to their rate of synthesis in cells separately infected with these viruses. The reduction is much stronger for influenza A virus proteins. The synthesis of the nonstructural NS1 protein of both viruses is relatively resistant to the heterotypic interference. The synthesis of virus-specific mRNAs exhibits the same pattern: the formation of the transcripts of HA and NP genes is much more drastically reduced than the synthesis of NS gene transcripts. The effect is strongly dependent on the multiplicity of infection and on the ratio of influenza A and B viruses in the inoculum. Primary transcription in the presence of cycloheximide is almost unchanged in doubly infected cells as compared to single infection, and no indication of differential inhibition has been observed. The results are discussed in connection with the mechanism of heterotypic interference and the regulation of influenza virus protein synthesis.

Keywords: influenza virus, heterotypic interference, viral proteins, RNA synthesis

^* Postal address: Laboratory of Subviral Structures, The D. I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Gamaleya Str. 16, 123098 Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Present address: Institute of Virology, 809 39 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Received 7 February 1983; accepted 29 June 1983.

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