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Timoshicheva TA, Zabrodskaya YA, Ramsay E, Amosova IV. Use of hexon as an antigen for the production of monoclonal antibodies capable of detecting multiple adenovirus types. Biologicals 2019; 58:44-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2019.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Revised: 12/10/2018] [Accepted: 01/13/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Conformational changes in the adenovirus hexon subunit responsible for regulating cytoplasmic dynein recruitment. J Virol 2014; 89:1013-23. [PMID: 25355895 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02889-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Virus capsids provide genome protection from environmental challenges but are also poised to execute a program of compositional and conformational changes to facilitate virion entry and infection. The most abundant adenovirus serotype 5 (AdV5) capsid protein, hexon, directly recruits the motor protein cytoplasmic dynein following virion entry. Dynein recruitment is crucial for capsid transport to the nucleus and requires the transient exposure of AdV5 hexon to low pH, presumably mimicking passage through the endosomal compartment. These results suggest a pH-dependent capsid modification during early infection. The changes to hexon structure controlling this behavior have not been explored. We report that hexon remains trimeric at low pH but undergoes more subtle conformational changes. These changes are indicated by increased sensitivities to SDS-mediated dissociation and dispase proteolysis. Both effects are reversed at neutral pH, as is dynein binding by low-pH-treated hexon. Dispase cleavage, which we find maps to a specific site within hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) of AdV5 hexon, has no apparent effect on virion entry but completely inhibits its transport to the nucleus. In addition, an AdV5 mutant containing HVR1 of AdV48 is unable to bind dynein and is strongly inhibited in the postentry transport step. These results reveal that conformational changes involving hexon HVR1 are the basis for a novel viral mechanism controlling capsid transport to the nucleus. IMPORTANCE The adenovirus serotype 5 (AdV5) capsid protein hexon recruits the molecular motor protein cytoplasmic dynein in a pH-dependent manner, a function critical for efficient transport toward the nucleus and AdV5 infectivity. In this work, we describe how low-pH exposure induces reversible structural changes in AdV5 hexon and how these changes affect dynein binding. In addition, we identified a pH-sensitive dispase cleavage site in hexon HVR1, which depends on the same structural changes and furthermore regulates dynein recruitment and capsid redistribution in infected cells. These data provide the first evidence relating long-known but subtle pH-dependent structural changes in hexon to a more recently established essential but poorly understood role in virus transport. These results have broad implications for understanding virus infectivity in general, and our ability to block the recruitment mechanism has potential therapeutic implications as well.
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Liu M, Tian X, Li X, Zhou Z, Li C, Zhou R. Generation of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against a conformational epitope of human adenovirus type 7 (HAdv-7) incorporated in capsid encoded in a HAdv-3-based vector. PLoS One 2014; 9:e103058. [PMID: 25054273 PMCID: PMC4108376 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2014] [Accepted: 06/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The generation of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) by epitope-based immunization is difficult because the immunogenicity of simple peptides is poor and T cells must be potently stimulated and immunological memory elicited. A strategy in which antigen is incorporated into the adenoviral capsid protein has been used previously to develop antibody responses against several vaccine targets and may offer a solution to this problem. In this study, we used a similar strategy to develop HAdv-7-neutralizing MAbs using rAdMHE3 virions into which hexon hypervariable region 5 (HVR5) of adenovirus type 7 (HAdv-7) was incorporated. The epitope mutant rAdMHE3 was generated by replacing HVR5 of Ad3EGFP, a recombinant HAdv-3-based vector expressing enhanced green fluorescence protein, with HVR5 of HAdv-7. We immunized BALB/c mice with rAdMHE3 virions and produced 22 different MAbs against them, four of which showed neutralizing activity against HAdv-7 invitro. Using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analysis and an antibody-binding-competition ELISA with Ad3EGFP, HAdv-7, and a series of chimeric adenoviral particles containing epitope mutants, we demonstrated that the four MAbs recognize the neutralization site within HVR5 of the HAdv-7 virion. Using an immunoblotting analysis and ELISA with HAdv-7, recombinant peptides, and a synthetic peptide, we also showed that the neutralizing epitope within HVR5 of the HAdv-7 virion is a conformational epitope. These findings suggest that it is feasible to use a strategy in which antigen is incorporated into the adenoviral capsid protein to generate neutralizing MAbs. This strategy may also be useful for developing therapeutic neutralizing MAbs and designing recombinant vector vaccines against HAdv-7, and in structural analysis of adenoviruses.
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- Minglong Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The Affiliated First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The Affiliated First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The Affiliated First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The Affiliated First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The Affiliated First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- * E-mail: (RZ); (CL)
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The Affiliated First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- * E-mail: (RZ); (CL)
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Evaluation of diagnostic applications of monoclonal antibodies against avian influenza H7 viruses. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY : CVI 2010; 17:1398-406. [PMID: 20660135 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00023-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) was generated from mice immunized with binary ethylenimine (BEI)-inactivated H7N1 (A/TK/ON/18-2/00) virus. Using a dot blot assay, six of seven MAbs reacted with viruses of the H7 subtype, but not with any of the other 15 hemagglutinin (HA) subtypes tested. Four of the seven MAbs reacted with 14 different H7 isolates, indicating that the MAbs binding epitopes are conserved among viruses of the H7 subtype. The binding epitopes of all seven MAbs were conformational and reacted with the HA1 fraction of the HA protein in Western blots under nonreducing conditions. Applications of these MAbs in the development of rapid tests for H7 subtype viruses were evaluated. The MAbs demonstrated reactivity with AI virus H7 antigen in immunofluorescence and immunohistochemistry assays. Monoclonal antibody 3 showed a very strong immunostaining in the formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue from the H7N3 virus-infected chicken. A double-antibody sandwich (DAS) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed using two of the MAbs. The DAS ELISA specifically detected all H7 strains tested in this study. A competitive ELISA (cELISA) for the detection of H7-specific antibodies was evaluated using one MAb and BEI-inactivated H7N1 virus as the antigen. All infected birds showed positive antibody responses at 7 days postinfection. The sensitivity of this cELISA was comparable with that of an influenza A nucleoprotein-based cELISA. This panel of MAbs is valuable in the development of various immunoassays.
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Pichla-Gollon SL, Drinker M, Zhou X, Xue F, Rux JJ, Gao GP, Wilson JM, Ertl HCJ, Burnett RM, Bergelson JM. Structure-based identification of a major neutralizing site in an adenovirus hexon. J Virol 2007; 81:1680-9. [PMID: 17108028 PMCID: PMC1797575 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02023-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2006] [Accepted: 11/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Virus-specific neutralizing antibodies present an obstacle to the effective use of adenovirus vectors for gene therapy and vaccination. The specific sites recognized by neutralizing antibodies have not been identified for any adenovirus, but they have been proposed to reside within the hexon, in small regions of the molecule that are exposed on the capsid surface and possess sequences that vary among serotypes. We have mapped the epitopes recognized by a panel of seven hexon-specific monoclonal antibodies that neutralize the chimpanzee adenovirus 68 (AdC68). Surface plasmon resonance experiments revealed that the antibodies compete for a single hexon binding site, and experiments with synthetic peptides indicated that this site resides within just one small surface loop. Mutations within this loop (but not in other surface loops) permitted virus to escape neutralization by all seven monoclonal antibodies and to resist neutralization by polyclonal antisera obtained from animals immunized against AdC68. These results indicate that a single small surface loop defines a major neutralization site for AdC68 hexon.
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- Susan L Pichla-Gollon
- Abramson Research Center, Room 1205G, Immunologic and Infectious Disease, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3601 Civic Center Blvd., Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA.
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Varghese R, Mikyas Y, Stewart PL, Ralston R. Postentry neutralization of adenovirus type 5 by an antihexon antibody. J Virol 2004; 78:12320-32. [PMID: 15507619 PMCID: PMC525062 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.22.12320-12332.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Antibodies against hexon, the major coat protein of adenovirus (Ad), are an important component of the neutralizing activity in serum from naturally infected humans and experimentally infected animals. The mechanisms by which antihexon antibodies neutralize the virus have not been defined. As a model system, murine monoclonal antibodies raised against Ad type 5 (Ad5) were screened for antihexon binding and neutralization activity; one monoclonal antibody, designated 9C12, was selected for further characterization. The minimum ratio of 9C12 to Ad5 required for neutralization was 240 antibody molecules per virus particle, or 1 antibody per hexon trimer. Analysis of antibody-virus complexes by dynamic light scattering and negative-stain electron microscopy (EM) showed that the virus particles were coated with electron-dense material but not aggregated at neutralizing ratios. Cryo-EM image reconstruction of the antibody-virus complex showed that the surface of the virus particle was covered by a meshwork of 9C12 antibody density, consistent with bivalent binding at multiple sites. Confocal analysis revealed that viral attachment, cell entry, and intracellular transport to the nuclear periphery still occur in the presence of neutralizing levels of 9C12. A model is presented for neutralization of Ad by an antihexon antibody in which the hexon capsid is cross-linked by antibodies, thus preventing virus uncoating and nuclear entry of viral DNA.
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- Robin Varghese
- Canji, Inc., 3525 John Hopkins Ct., San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Hu RG, Zhai QW, He WJ, Mei L, Liu WY. Bioactivities of ricin retained and its immunoreactivity to anti-ricin polyclonal antibodies alleviated through pegylation. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2002; 34:396-402. [PMID: 11854038 DOI: 10.1016/s1357-2725(01)00128-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Ricin has long been employed to construct immunotoxins, whose efficacy was often undermined by immunogenicity. Pegylation (modification of proteins with polyethylene glycol, PEG) was one of those recently developed approaches to circumvent immunogenicity of legions of drugs. Herein, pegylation of ricin was found to have barely changed the RNA N-glycosidase activity and protein synthesis inhibiting activity of ricin, but remarkably altered the cytotoxicity of ricin on hepatoma cell line (BEL7404) or the immunoreactivity with polyclonal anti-ricin antibodies. This result suggested that the attached PEG or monomethyloxyl polyethylene glycol (mPEG) groups did not hinder ricin from hydrolyzing ribosomal RNA, but indeed covered some areas on the surface of ricin molecule, including those involved in the interaction with cellular receptors and epitopes recognized by polyclonal antibodies. Pegylation, masking certain epitopes of ricin, might contribute to alleviate the immunogenicity of the toxin. Approach in this work, if applied to thereby constructed immunotoxins, would help improve the prospective efficacy of these toxins.
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- Rong-Gui Hu
- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 20031, China
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Cardona CJ, Nazerian K, Reed WM, Silva RF. Characterization of a recombinant fowlpox virus expressing the native hexon of hemorrhagic enteritis virus. Virus Genes 2001; 22:353-61. [PMID: 11450954 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011134811271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The structure of the icosahedral adenovirus capsid is highly conserved among Adenoviridae. In its native form, the hexon is the major capsid protein. The nascent hexon requires the 100 kDa folding protein to fold into its native, trimeric form. The hexon and 100 kDa folding protein were co-expressed in a fowlpox virus (FPV) vector and in the recombinant FPVs (rFPVs) in which the hexon and 100 kDa folding protein genes are cloned head to tail, the native hexon could be detected with indirect immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation using a native hexon monoclonal antibody. The FPV-@X100 construct, in which the 100kDa folding protein gene follows the hexon gene in a head to tail fashion, elicited the best humoral response in chickens. An attenuated HEV commercial vaccine elicited higher and longer lasting anti-HEV titers than FPV-@X100. Humoral immunity was also compared in turkeys inoculated with rFPVs expressing the hexon alone, the 100 kDa folding protein alone, or expressing both genes in different configurations. No anti-HEV humoral immune response was detected in turkeys inoculated with the rFPVs expressing the hexon alone or the 100 kDa folding protein alone.
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- C J Cardona
- Department of Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
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Serwer P, Khan SA, Griess GA. Non-denaturing gel electrophoresis of biological nanoparticles: viruses. J Chromatogr A 1995; 698:251-61. [PMID: 7773365 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9673(94)01259-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Although gel electrophoresis is usually used for the fractionation of monomolecular particles, it is also applicable to the fractionation of the multimolecular complexes produced during both cellular metabolism and assembly of viruses in virus-infected cells. Gel electrophoretic procedures have been developed for determining both the size of a spherical particle and some aspects of the shape of a non-spherical particle. Capsids bound to DNA outside of the capsid can also be both fractionated and characterized. The procedures developed will be used for screening viral mutants; they also can potentially be used for diagnostic virology. Sensitivity of detection, the major current limitation, is being improved by use of both improved stains and scanning fluorimetry. The gels used for fractionation sometimes approximate random straight fiber gels, but become increasingly biphasic as the gel concentration is decreased.
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- P Serwer
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7760, USA
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