Figure 1

Chemical inhibition of dynamin inhibits ABLV G-mediated viral entry into HEK293T cells. (A) HEK293T cell monolayers were pretreated with dynasore diluted in OptiMEM® for 30 min at 37°C and were then infected with max-GFP encoding rVSV reporter viruses (MOI = 1). Cells were harvested 20 hrs post infection, fixed with 2% paraformaldehyde and then analyzed for GFP expression (indicative of productive infection). GFP positive cells were counted with a Nexcelom Vision automated cell counter with fluorescence detection and the percent of virus-infected cells was calculated by dividing the number of GFP positive cells by the total number of cells counted. Under these experimental conditions, a MOI of 1 yielded 60-70% virus-infected cells in untreated cells. Drug was maintained for the entire course of infection and its effect on cell viability (B) was determined by trypan blue staining. Reporter viruses that express VSV G were included as a positive control to assess dynasore activity. Results are expressed as percent virus-infected cells relative to that of untreated controls and represent 3 independent experiments; error bars are standard error of the mean (SEM).