Importance of M-Protein C Terminus as Substrate Antigen for Serodetection of Equine Arteritis Virus Infection
AUTOR(ES)
Jeronimo, Célia
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Equine arteritis virus (EAV), an enveloped positive-stranded RNA virus, is the prototype of the arterivirus group. In a previous paper (A. Kheyar, S. Martin, G. St.-Laurent, P. J. Timoney, W. H. McCollum, and D. Archambault, Clin. Diagn. Lab. Immunol. 4:648-652, 1997), we have shown that the unglycosylated membrane (M) protein, which is composed of 162 amino acids (aa), is a major target of equine antibody to EAV. In order to determine the antigenic regions of the M protein, the cDNA encoding the M protein of EAV was inserted into the procaryotic expression vector pGEX-4T-1 to produce recombinant glutathione S-transferase-M fusion protein. Various deletion mutant clones, which covered the entire sequence of the M protein, were then generated by inverse PCR and expressed in Escherichia coli to examine, by a Western blot assay, the antigenic reactivity of the clone-derived truncated M proteins with sera from horses either experimentally or naturally infected with EAV. Deletion of the hydrophobic N-terminal 87 aa did not abolish immune reactivity of the protein with serum antibodies to EAV, thereby demonstrating the antigenicity of the C-terminal region (aa 88 to 162) of the M protein. Further truncations of the M-protein C-terminal domain defined particular linear epitope-containing amino acid sequence regions. However, only the M-protein C-terminal region was readily recognized by all EAV-specific horse antisera tested in this study. Based on these findings, only the M-protein C-terminal polypeptide composed of aa 88 to 162 is necessary to identify horse serum antibodies specific to the EAV M protein. Thus, this polypeptide might be useful for serodetection of EAV-infected animals.
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