A new Bombyx mori larval ovarian cell line highly susceptible to nucleopolyhedrovirus

Khurad, Arun M. ; Kanginakudru, Sriramana ; Qureshi, Syed O. ; Rathod, Mohan K. ; Rai, Manoj M. ; Nagaraju, Javaregowda (2006) A new Bombyx mori larval ovarian cell line highly susceptible to nucleopolyhedrovirus Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 92 (2). pp. 59-65. ISSN 0022-2011

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Abstract

Lepidopteran cell lines constitute the backbone for studying baculoviral biology in culturo and for baculovirus vector based recombinant protein expression systems. In the present study, we report establishment of a new continuous cell line designated as DZNU-Bm-1 from larval ovaries of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. The cells were grown in MGM-448 insect cell culture medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 3% heat inactivated B. mori haemolymph at 25 ± 1 °C. A large number of attached epithelial-like and round refractive cells migrated from the explants and multiplied in the primary cultures. Both type of cells were subcultured initially for a few passages but after 10 passages the round refractive cells dominated the population, which could be subcultured continuously using MGM-448 medium with 10% FBS. The population doubling time of cell line was about 42 h at 25 ± 1 °C. The cell populations were largely diploids and triploids, while a few tetraploids and hexaploids were also observed. DNA profiles using Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR)-PCR and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) loci established the differences between DZNU-Bm-1 cell line and most widely used BmN cell line and the B. mori W-chromosome specific sequences confirmed the origin of DZNU-Bm-1 cell line to be from female silkworm. When cells were infected with free nonoccluded B. mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV), the cell line was found to be highly susceptible with 92-94% of the cells harbouring BmNPV and having an average of 20-23 OBs/infected cell. We suggest the usefulness of this cell line in BmNPV based baculoviral expression system and also for studying in culturo virus replication.

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Keywords:Bombyx Mori; Ovarian Cell Line; DZNU-Bm-1; DNA Fingerprinting; BmNPV Infection; Baculoviral Expression System
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