Evaluation of neutralizing antibodies produced by papaya mosaic virus nanoparticles fused to the E2EP3 peptide epitope of Chikungunya envelope
| Autor: | Nurshamimi Nor Rashid, S J Al-Harbi, Rohana Yusof, Hussin A. Rothan, Teow Chong Teoh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.disease_cause
Antibodies Viral Virus Epitope Epitopes Viral Envelope Proteins medicine Animals Chikungunya Amino Acid Sequence Neutralizing antibody Mice Inbred ICR biology virus diseases biology.organism_classification Virology Antibodies Neutralizing Potexvirus Immunization biology.protein Vero cell Chikungunya Fever Nanoparticles Antibody Peptides Chikungunya virus Papaya mosaic virus |
| Zdroj: | Tropical biomedicine. 38(1) |
| ISSN: | 2521-9855 |
| Popis: | Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection is the cause of acute symptoms and chronic symmetrical polyarthritis associated with long-term morbidity and mortality. Currently, there is no available licensed vaccine or particularly useful drug for human use against CHIKV infection. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of antibodies produced by papaya mosaic virus (PapMV) nanoparticles fused to E2EP3 peptide of CHIKV envelope as a recombinant CHIKV vaccine. PapMV, PapMV-C- E2EP3, and E2EP3-N-PapMV were produced in E. coli with an approximate size of 27 to 30 kDa. ICR mice (5 to 6 weeks of age) were injected subcutaneously with 25 micrograms of vaccine construct, and ELISA measured the titer of CHIKV specific IgG antibodies. The results showed that both recombinant proteins E2EP3-N-PapMV and PapMVC-E2EP3 were able to induce IgG antibodies production in immunized mice against CHIKV while immunization with recombinant PapMV showed no IgG antibodies induction. The neutralizing activity of the antibodies generated by either E2EP3-N-PapMV or PapMV-C-E2EP3 exhibited similar inhibition to CHIKV replication in Vero cells using the cells based antibody neutralizing assay and analyzed by plaque formation assay. This study showed the effectiveness of nanoparticles vaccine generated by fusing epitope peptide of CHIKV envelope to papaya mosaic virus envelope in inducing a robust immune response in mice against CHIKV. The data showed that levels of neutralizing antibodies correlate with a protective immune response CHIKV replication. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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