Cells and virus. The following cell lines were propagated in Dulbecco modified Eagle medium (3) supplemented with 7 to 10% fetal bovine serum: BHK-21 cells, subline B3 (41), and the Ad2-transformed hamster cell lines HE1, HE3, HE5, and HE7 (7), as well as human HeLa cells (ATCC, CCL 2). Human KB cells (ATCC, CCL 17) were grown in Eagle medium containing 10% newborn calf serum. The AdStransformed cell line BHK297-131 (47), a gift of J. Sussenbach, Utrecht, The Netherlands, was grown in the Dulbecco modified Eagle medium containing 7% fetal calf serum. Cell lines HEl, HE3, HES, and HE7 were gifts of A