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Kramer-Hammerle S, Rothenaigner 1, Wolff H, Bell JE, Brack-Werner R (2005b) Cells of the central nervous system as targets and reservoirs of the human immunodeficiency virus. Virus Res 111 194-213... 

We have discussed in a general way the nature of animal viruses in the first part of this chapter. Now we discuss in some detail the structure and molecular biology of a number of important animal viruses. Viruses will be discussed which illustrate different ways of replicating, and both RNA and DNA viruses will be covered. One group of animal viruses, those called the retroviruses, have both an RNA and a DNA phase of replication. Retroviruses are especially interesting not only because of their unusual mode of replication, but because retroviruses cause such important diseases as certain cancers and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). 

Let s conclude this discussion of life with a short consideration of viruses. Viruses cause all sorts of problems for living organisms. The problems are the consequence of their ability to infect, and ultimately kiU, many types of cells— bacterial, animal, and plant—though each virus is quite specific in terms of the type of cell that it infects. There are many types of viruses. In people, they cause measles, mumps, influenza, AIDS, polio, potentially fatal diarrhea in infants and very young children, herpes, chicken pox, shingles, the common cold, and many other diseases, that may be fatal, serious, and not so serious. In other animals, viruses also cause any number of diseases, as they do in plants. Much effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of viral diseases. 

Arber s work was inspired by an earlier discovery of the famous Italian-American microbiologist Salvador Luria (1912-1991). In 1942, Luria discovered that bacteria, like humans, seem to have mechanisms for protecting themselves from attacking viruses. Viruses that infect bacteria have a special name bacteriophages. Arber discovered that this defensive system consisted of two parts (1) a group of enzymes (restriction enzymes) that... 

Virases are much simpler organisms than bacteria, and they are made from protein substances and nucleic acid. A single nucleoprotein molecule formed from molecules of nucleic acid that are chemically bound to a bulky protein molecule can be considered a simple viral particle. The protein molecule plays the role of a protective membrane. Thus the virus can be schematically described as a nucleic acid insert that is protected by a protein covering. A virus can contain either ribonucleic acid or deoxyribonucleic acid, but it never contains both of them together. The type of nucleic acid is the basis of one of the classifications of viruses. Viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites, which, upon entering a cell (i.e. after being infected) use many biochemical systems of the host cell. 

Viruses Viruses are not free-living organisms rather, they are infectious parasites that use the resources of a host cell to carry out many of the processes they require to propagate. Many viral particles consist of no more than a genome (usually a single RNA or DNA molecule) surrounded by a protein coat. 

VIRUS. Viruses are considered to be the smallest infectious agents capable of replicating themselves inside eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells. The majority of these extremely small infectious particles fall within a size range of about 0.02-0.25 micrometer and can only be visualized directly with the aid of an electron microscope... 

Methods to Detect and Quantitate Viral Agents in Fluids. In order to assess the effectiveness of membrane filtration the ability to quantitate the amount of virus present pre- and post-filtration is critical. There are a number of techniques used. The method of choice for filter challenge studies is the plaque assay which utilizes the formation of plaques, localized areas in the cell monolayer where cell death caused by viral infection in the cell has occurred on the cell monolayer. Each plaque represents the presence of a single infectious virus. Virus quantity in a sample can be determined by serial dilution until the number of plaques can be accurately counted. The effectiveness of viral removal may be determined, as in the case of bacterial removal, by comparing the virus concentration in the input suspension to the concentration of virus in the effluent. 

Prior to phase I clinical trials, process steps and assays that relate to safety should be validated. For example, sterility assays and sterilization processes must be validated. Cell lines should be qualified prior to any clinical trials, including testing for adventitious agents and identifying and quantifying indigenous virus. Virus clearance steps should be validated, and removal of any potentially toxic or otherwise harmful agents should be validated [41,42],... 

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The main objective of immunization against viruses is the prevention or modification of the disease. However, most of the existing classical vaccines are able to prevent the disease but are not so efficient in preventing infection (Sandhu, 1994 Ellis, 1999). The development of the recombinant DNA technology made possible the creation of vaccines that do not present the typical side effects of the vaccines of attenuated or inactivated viruses. Virus-like particles (VLPs) are one of the new vaccine strategies arising from recombinant DNA technology. 

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The acquisition of a lipid bilayer from the infected host cell is the defining feature of enveloped viruses. However, the origin and composition of the bilayer can differ from virus to virus. Viruses are known to acquire a membrane, or bud, from various cellular compartments that include the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the Golgi, and the plasma membrane. As the Upid contents of those membranes differ, so do the contents of the viral membranes. In some, if not all, cases the composition of the lipid bUayer is an important aspect of the viral assembly pathway. 

Viruses Viruses provide a unique and extremely efficient method of insertion of genes into mammalian cells, such as human bone marrow stem cells. SV 40, adenovirus, vaccine virus, and polyomavirus have been used as gene transfer vectors. A non-replicating adenoviral vector that efficiently infects human cells has recently been developed. The essential feature of a retroviral gene delivery system is the presence of an RNA copy of the replacement gene that is packaged in a viral particle, capable of specific and efficient entry into the cytoplasm of a cell. A retrovirus consists of... 

Figure 2 illustrates the inhibition of Amp-RT by NVP in a sensitive HIV-1 strain (50% inhibitory concentration [IC50] = 0.038 (iM), and in several resistant strains with IC50 values ranging from 20 to >100. The protocol used in this Amp-RT application is similar to that described in Subheading 3.2., with the exception that final drug concentrations from 0 to 1000 xM are added to RT buffer A. The results in Fig. 2 show that at a concentration of 100 xM NVP, Amp-RT can reliably differentiate between NVP-sensitive and -resistant virus. Virus mixtures containing 25% resistant virus may also be differentiated from sensitive virus, as shown in Fig. 3. These results have implications on screening for phenotypic drug resistance by the Amp-RT assay by direct analysis of HIV-1 virus from culture supernatant or from plasma of HIV-1-infected persons.

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VIRUSES Viruses lack most of the properties that distinguish life from nonlife. For example, viruses cannot carry on metabolic activities on their own. Yet under the appropriate conditions they can wreak havoc on living organisms. Often described as obligate, intracellular parasites, viruses can also be viewed as mobile genetic elements because of their structure, that is, each consists of a piece of nucleic acid... 

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