Leslye D. Johnson

TL;DR: The RNA isolated from a new defective interfering particle of vesicular stomatitis virus is 80 to 90% double-stranded and Annealing and electron microscopic analyses indicate that the complementary sequences of this duplex are covalently linked in a hairpin structure.

TL;DR: Results support the hypothesis that primary transcription is a requisite event for cell killing by VS virus, and prove that newly synthesized L mRNA or protein is not needed for the production of putative cell-killing factor, but that virion-associated L protein is.

TL;DR: It is concluded that most of the bullet-shaped virions seen in vitro are an artifact resulting from the processing of the virus for visualization in the electron microscope.

TL;DR: A defective interfering particle derived from the HR strain of VSV, DI-LT, contains genetic information from the 3′ portion of the parental genome that stimulates the synthesis of four proteins that comigrate with the VSV proteins G, NS, N, and M.