Detection systems for antibody responses against herpes B virus
Autor: | Artur Kaul, Stefan Schneider, Astrid Krüger, Michael Winkler, Jens Gruber, Stefan Pöhlmann, Wali Hafezi |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Herpes B virus 040301 veterinary sciences viruses HSL and HSV Simian medicine.disease_cause law.invention 0403 veterinary science 03 medical and health sciences law medicine chemistry.chemical_classification biology 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology 030104 developmental biology Herpes simplex virus chemistry Immunology Recombinant DNA biology.protein Animal Science and Zoology Antibody Glycoprotein Encephalitis |
Zdroj: | Primate Biology. 4:9-16 |
ISSN: | 2363-4715 |
Popis: | Herpes B virus (BV) infection is highly prevalent among adult Asian macaques and rarely causes severe disease in infected animals. In contrast, BV infection of humans can induce fatal encephalitis in the absence of treatment. Therefore, the development of diagnostic tests for specific and sensitive detection of antibodies against BV is an important task. The cross-reactivity of antibodies against BV with related simplex viruses of other primates may afford an opportunity to obtain sensitive detection systems without the need to work with the highly pathogenic BV. Moreover, it has been proposed that use of recombinant viral glycoproteins may allow for a detection of antibody responses against BV with high specificity. However, limited data are available for both approaches to BV diagnostic. Here, we report that simian agent 8 (SA8; infects African green monkeys)- and herpesvirus papio 2 (HVP-2; infects baboons)-infected cells allow for a more sensitive detection of antibody responses against BV in macaques than lysates of herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2 (HSV-1/2; infect humans)-infected cells and a commercial HSV ELISA (Enzygnost® Anti-HSV/IgG). In addition, we show that sera from BV-infected macaques frequently contain antibodies against the recombinant BV glycoprotein gD (BV gD) that has been previously proposed as a diagnostic target for discriminating BV- and HSV-induced antibodies. However, we found that antibodies of some HSV-infected human patients also reacted with BV gD. In contrast, only sera of HSV-1- and HSV-2-infected humans, but not sera from BV-infected macaques, reacted with HSV-1/2 gG. Collectively, these results suggest that both SA8 and HVP-2 allow for sensitive and comparable detection of BV-directed antibody responses in macaques and that the combination of BV gD and HSV-1/2 gG needs to be complemented by a least one additional viral glycoprotein for reliable discrimination between antibody responses against BV and HSV-1/2 in humans. |
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