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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disorder of unknown etiology, possibly caused by a virus or virus-triggered immunopathology. The virus might reactivate after years of latency and lyse oligodendrocytes, as in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or initiate immunopathological demyelination, as in animals infected with Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus or coronaviruses. The argument for a viral cause of MS is supported by epidemiological analyses and studies of MS in identical twins, indicating that disease is acquired. However, the most important evidence is the presence of bands of oligoclonal IgG (OCBs) in MS brain and CSF that persist throughout the lifetime of the patient. OCBs are found almost exclusively in infectious CNS disorders, and antigenic targets of OCBs represent the agent that causes disease. Here, the authors review past attempts to identify an infectious agent in MS brain cells and discuss the promise of using recombinant antibodies generated from clonally expanded plasma cells in brain and CSF to identify disease-relevant antigens. They show how this strategy has been used successfully to analyze antigen specificity in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a chronic encephalitis caused by measles virus, and in neuromyelitis optica, a chronic autoimmune demyelinating disease produced by antibodies directed against the aquaporin-4 water channel.
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- Gregory P Owens
- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disorder of unknown etiology, possibly caused by a virus or virus-triggered immunopathology. The virus might reactivate after years of latency and lyse oligodendrocytes, as in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or initiate immunopathological demyelination, as in animals infected with Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus or coronaviruses. The argument for a viral cause of MS is supported by epidemiological analyses and studies of MS in identical twins, indicating that disease is acquired. However, the most important evidence is the presence of bands of oligoclonal IgG (OCBs) in MS brain and CSF that persist throughout the lifetime of the patient. OCBs are found almost exclusively in infectious CNS disorders, and antigenic targets of OCBs represent the agent that causes disease. Here, the authors review past attempts to identify an infectious agent in MS brain cells and discuss the promise of using recombinant antibodies generated from clonally expanded plasma cells in brain and CSF to identify disease-relevant antigens. They show how this strategy has been used successfully to analyze antigen specificity in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a chronic encephalitis caused by measles virus, and in neuromyelitis optica, a chronic autoimmune demyelinating disease produced by antibodies directed against the aquaporin-4 water channel.
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Vandevyver C, Canarelli S, Bossen C, Fisch I, Motmans K, Raus J, Freitag R. Investigation and molecular mimicry of the antigen involved in the interaction between the monoclonal antibody 5D10 and the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. Biotechnol Bioeng 2006; 97:721-34. [PMID: 17161001 DOI: 10.1002/bit.21276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Monoclonal antibody (mAb) 5D10 is directed against the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. Biochemical characterization of the antibody epitope was attempted and revealed a complex, most likely carbohydrate-linked nature, which prevented isolation and further studies of the interaction. A major goal of this work was to generate structural mimics of the 5D10 epitope to serve as putative substitutes in such studies. A peptide library displayed on filamentous phage was used to select for mimotope peptide sequences. All positive phage clones selected from the library displayed the amino acid sequence H(2)N-QMNPMYYR-CO(2)H. This peptide sequence, as well as a branched form of the peptide, was found to bind mAb 5D10. Moreover, both peptide sequences were able to inhibit the binding of 5D10 to the MCF-7 cells in a concentration-dependent manner, with an EC(50) value in the range of 65 microM. According to these results, random phage peptide libraries can serve to identify mimotopic peptides for unknown complex cell surface epitopes.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Neoplasm/immunology
- Antigens/immunology
- Blotting, Western
- Breast Neoplasms/immunology
- Breast Neoplasms/pathology
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Chromatography, Gel
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Epitopes
- Female
- Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
- Fluorescent Dyes
- Humans
- Molecular Mimicry
- Oligopeptides/chemical synthesis
- Oligopeptides/chemistry
- Oligopeptides/pharmacology
- Peptide Library
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Affiliation(s)
- Caroline Vandevyver
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de Biotechnologie Chimique, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Volpina OM, Volkova TD, Koroev DO, Ivanov VT, Ozherelkov SV, Khoretonenko MV, Vorovitch MF, Stephenson JR, Timofeev AV. A synthetic peptide based on the NS1 non-structural protein of tick-borne encephalitis virus induces a protective immune response against fatal encephalitis in an experimental animal model. Virus Res 2005; 112:95-9. [PMID: 16022903 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2005.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2004] [Revised: 03/02/2005] [Accepted: 03/02/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Linear immunogenic peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences from the NS1 non-structural protein from tick-borne encephalitis virus (strain Sophyin) were predicted using established algorithms and synthesized. Of the 12 peptides predicted, 11 were able to induce peptide-specific antibodies in BALB/c mice but only 1 of these 11 was able to induce antibodies, which reacted with the native protein in a radio-immune precipitation assay. This peptide corresponds to amino acids 37--55, and forms one of the predicted structurally conserved alpha helices of the virus NS1 protein. It was able to protect 60% of animals against lethal challenge with the homologous highly pathogenic tick-borne encephalitis virus strain, and adoptive transfer experiments indicated the involvement of the antibodies induced by this peptide in its protective activity in mice.
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- O M Volpina
- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia
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An efficient strategy for the preparation of one-bead-one-peptide libraries on a new biocompatible solid support. Tetrahedron Lett 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.12.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Luo W, Hsu JCF, Kieber-Emmons T, Wang X, Ferrone S. Human tumor associated antigen mimicry by xenoantigens, anti-idiotypic antibodies and peptide mimics: Implications for immunotherapy of malignant diseases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 22:769-87. [PMID: 16110640 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-4410(04)22036-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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- Wei Luo
- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Wu SC, Lin CW. Neutralizing peptide ligands selected from phage-displayed libraries mimic the conformational epitope on domain III of the Japanese encephalitis virus envelope protein. Virus Res 2001; 76:59-69. [PMID: 11376846 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(01)00246-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The envelope (E) protein of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) contains 500 amino acids with six "conserved" disulfide bonds to maintain its conformational structure. Neutralizing epitopes located on the E protein are mostly conformational dependent. In this study, we used phage-displayed 12-residue combinatorial peptide libraries to select high-affinity peptide ligands bound to monoclonal antibody E3.3. The specific peptide ligands presented on ten high-affinity phage clones displayed six different amino acid sequences, all showing a novel cis-proline turn structure. After being superimposed onto the best fit of the three-dimensional structure of JEV E protein, these peptide structures were mapped to a conformational region constituted by three continuous polypeptide segments (E307-E309, E327-E333, E386-E390) in domain III. Synthetic peptide ligands based on one peptide sequence (E18) were further investigated using alanine scanning within the cis-proline turn structure to demonstrate its unique molecular characteristics. Our results showed that three residues forming the novel cis-proline turn structure were all important in eliciting JEV-specific neutralizing antibodies in mice.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Viral/biosynthesis
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antigens, Viral/chemistry
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Encephalitis Virus, Japanese/chemistry
- Encephalitis Virus, Japanese/immunology
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Epitope Mapping
- Epitopes/chemistry
- Epitopes/immunology
- Immunization
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Mimicry
- Neutralization Tests
- Peptide Library
- Peptides/chemistry
- Peptides/immunology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Vero Cells
- Viral Envelope Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
- Viral Plaque Assay
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Affiliation(s)
- S C Wu
- Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, 30013, Taiwan, Hsinchu, PR China
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Theoretically it seems highly unlikely that relatively small peptides could mimic functionally discontinuous epitopes of antigens. Nevertheless various recent reports show this to be the case. Peptide mimics of protein-, polysaccharide- and DNA-epitopes have been shown to be able to replace the native epitope. Moreover, some of them are able to induce, when used in a vaccine, antibodies with the same activity as that of the antibody used as a template. These mimics, called mimotopes, can be used in vaccines and diagnostics and can be developed more or less systematically using solely antibodies and random, semi-random and dedicated peptide arrays or libraries. Furthermore, the mimotope concept which seems to have proven itself for antibody and antigen interaction can be applied equally well to many receptor ligand interactions and thus may form a new generic approach to the development of drugs. Ltd.
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- R H Meloen
- Pepscan Systems BV, Lelystad, The Netherlands
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Kolaskar AS, Kulkarni-Kale U. Prediction of three-dimensional structure and mapping of conformational epitopes of envelope glycoprotein of Japanese encephalitis virus. Virology 1999; 261:31-42. [PMID: 10441554 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, is an important human pathogen. The envelope glycoprotein (Egp), a major structural antigen, is responsible for viral haemagglutination and eliciting neutralising antibodies. The three-dimensional structure of the Egp of JEV was predicted using the knowledge-based homology modeling approach and X-ray structure data of the Egp of tick-borne encephalitis virus as a template (Rey et al., 1995). In the initial stages of optimisation, a distance-dependent dielectric constant of 4r(ij) was used to simulate the solvent effect. The predicted structure was refined by solvating the protein in a 10-A layer of water by explicitly considering 4867 water molecules. Four independent structure evaluation methods report this structure to be acceptable stereochemically and geometrically. The Egp of JEV has an extended structure with seven beta-sheets, two alpha-helices, and three domains. The water-solvated structure was used to delineate conformational and sequential epitopes. These results document the importance of tertiary structure in understanding the antigenic properties of flaviviruses in general and JEV in particular. The conformational epitope prediction method could be used to identify conformational epitopes on any protein antigen with known three-dimensional structure. This is one of the largest proteins whose three-dimensional structure has been predicted using an homology modeling approach and water as a solvent.
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- A S Kolaskar
- Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, Pune, 411 007, India.
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Molecular dissection of protein antigens and the prediction of epitopes. SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES AS ANTIGENTS 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0075-7535(08)70446-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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al-Obeidi F, Hruby VJ, Sawyer TK. Peptide and peptidomimetic libraries. Molecular diversity and drug design. Mol Biotechnol 1998; 9:205-23. [PMID: 9718581 DOI: 10.1007/bf02915794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Various techniques for generation of peptide and peptidomimetic libraries are summarized in this article. Multipin, tea bag, and split-couple-mix techniques represent the major methods used to make peptides and peptidomimetics libraries. The synthesis of these libraries were made in either discrete or mixture format. Peptides and peptidomimetics combinatorial libraries were screened to discover leads against a variety of targets. These targets, including bacteria, fungus, virus, receptors, and enzymes were used in the screening of the libraries. Discovered leads can be further optimized by combinatorial approaches.
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- F al-Obeidi
- Selectide Research Center, a Subsidiary of Hoechst-Marion-Roussel, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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Regenmortel MV. MIMOTOPES, CONTINUOUS PARATOPES AND HYDROPATHIC COMPLEMENTARITY: NOVEL APPROXIMATIONS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF IMMUNOCHEMICAL SPECIFICITY. J DISPER SCI TECHNOL 1998. [DOI: 10.1080/01932699808913237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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