Virus Lysis
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A Procedure for Bacterial Harvesting and Mechanical Lysis
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2025
Source: Mercier, N., et al. MS2-Affinity Purification Coupled with RNA Sequencing in Gram-Positive Bacteria. J. Vis. Exp. (2021)This video demonstrates a step-by-step procedure for harvesting bacterial cells and mechanically lysing them to release intracellular contents.
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A Simple Red Blood Cell Lysis Method for the Establishment of B Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines
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2017
A simple red blood cell lysis method for establishing B-LCLs was developed with high immortalization efficiency, requiring a small amount of blood and saving time from initiation to cryopreservation.
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Tissue Homogenization and Cell Lysis
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2023
Tissue homogenization involves disintegrating tissue architecture and lysing cells, and is an early step in isolating and analyzing cellular components. The method used for homogenization depends on the sample type, the amount of sample available, the analyte to be obtained, and the sensitivity of the method. These methods are broadly classified as mechanical and non-mechanical methods. Mechanical methods of tissue homogenization These methods rely on applying external physical force to disrupt...
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Generation and Assembly of Virus-Specific Nucleocapsids of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus
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2021
For in-depth mechanistic analysis of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) RNA synthesis, we report a protocol of utilizing the chaperone phosphoprotein (P) for coexpression of the RNA-free nucleoprotein (N0) for subsequent in vitro assembly of the virus-specific nucleocapsids (NCs).
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Isolation of Endospores from an Environmental Sample by Targeted Lysis of Vegetative Cells
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2025
Source: Wunderlin, T., et al. Physical Isolation of Endospores from Environmental Samples by Targeted Lysis of Vegetative Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (2016)This video demonstrates a method to isolate endospores from an environmental sample containing both vegetative cells and various bacteria. The procedure involves filtration, mechanical disruption, and selective chemical treatment to weaken and lyse vegetative cells while preserving endospores. The final step isolates the resilient endospores through...
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During virus lysis, the infected cell’s biosynthetic capacity is redirected toward viral genome replication and protein production. This shifts cellular resources away from normal maintenance and toward generating progeny virions. The resulting imbalance helps explain why infection can culminate in structural damage and loss of cell integrity, rather than allowing the host cell to continue functioning normally.
Membrane damage is important because it compromises a structure essential for cellular integrity. Once damage becomes severe, the cell can rupture, allowing newly produced virions to leave and encounter neighboring cells. This connects a local intracellular process with broader infection spread, while also contributing directly to cellular injury observed in infected tissues.
Virus lysis provides a mechanistic link between viral production and visible or measurable cytopathic effects, meaning changes or injury in infected cells. As infected cells lose structural integrity, surrounding tissue can be damaged and the infection may progress. These consequences make lysis relevant for interpreting tissue injury and the course of acute infections.
A plaque assay measures lysis through its effects in a cell-based system, allowing researchers to quantify infectious virus. The resulting measurement supports comparisons among viral samples and helps connect cell destruction with the production of spreading progeny. Because it provides a quantifiable outcome, the assay is useful in infection studies and antiviral research.
Related cell-based methods examine how infection alters and damages host cells under experimental conditions. By measuring lysis or associated cellular outcomes, researchers can investigate viral replication, cytopathic effects, and host-pathogen interactions. These approaches complement plaque assays by providing additional ways to evaluate the cellular consequences of infection and the progression of virus-associated injury.
Virus lysis serves as an outcome for testing whether an antiviral treatment changes infection-associated cell destruction. Reduced or altered lysis can support comparisons of antiviral effects, while the same measurements help researchers examine interactions between viral activity and host-cell responses. In immunology and infection research, these results connect cellular injury with disease progression and pathogen behavior.