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Jiang X, Liu Y, Tan M. Histo-blood group antigens as receptors for rotavirus, new understanding on rotavirus epidemiology and vaccine strategy. Emerg Microbes Infect 2017; 6:e22. [PMID: 28400594 PMCID: PMC5457676 DOI: 10.1038/emi.2017.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2017] [Revised: 03/16/2017] [Accepted: 03/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The success of the two rotavirus (RV) vaccines (Rotarix and RotaTeq) in many countries endorses a live attenuated vaccine approach against RVs. However, the lower efficacies of both vaccines in many low- and middle-income countries indicate a need to improve the current RV vaccines. The recent discovery that RVs recognize histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) as potential receptors has significantly advanced our understanding of RV diversity, evolution and epidemiology, providing important new insights into the performances of current RV vaccines in different populations and emphasizing a P-type-based vaccine approach. New understanding of RV diversity and evolution also raises a fundamental question about the ‘Jennerian' approach, which needs to be addressed for future development of live attenuated RV vaccines. Alternative approaches to develop safer and more cost-effective subunit vaccines against RVs are also discussed.
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- Xi Jiang
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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Kaneko M, Mochizuki M, Nakagomi O, Nakagomi T. Whole genome characterization of a G6P[5] rotavirus A strain isolated from a stray cat in Japan. Vet Microbiol 2016; 188:25-33. [PMID: 27139026 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2016.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Revised: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The whole genome of an unusual G6P[5] rotavirus A strain named FRV537, which was isolated from a stray cat in Japan, was characterized to determine its species of origin. The genotype constellation of FRV537 was G6-P[5]-I2-R2-C2-M2-A13-N2- T6-E2-H3. No known feline rotavirus has this genotype constellation; the Japanese equine strain OH-4 is the only known strain that does. While FRV537 shares the same genotype with some feline rotaviruses in all genes except those encoding VP4 and NSP1, none of these genes are closely related to those of known feline rotaviruses. By contrast, G6P[5] is almost exclusively present in bovine rotaviruses. The VP7 and VP4 genes of FRV537 formed a lineage with typical bovine rotaviruses with high bootstrap values. As to the internal capsid and nonstructural gene constellation, three bovine rotavirus strains had a constellation identical to that of FRV537. Moreover, each of the genotypes of FRV537 was found to be a common bovine genotype. In addition to the high nucleotide sequence identities between FRV537 and bovine rotaviruses in each genome segment (≥95%), phylogenetic analysis revealed a close relationship to bovine/artiodactyl rotaviruses. Thus, the molecular and phylogenetic evidence suggests that FRV537 isolated from a stray cat was of bovine rotavirus origin.
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- Miho Kaneko
- Department of Hygiene and Molecular Epidemiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Hygiene and Molecular Epidemiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan; Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
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- Department of Hygiene and Molecular Epidemiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan; Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Steele AD, Neuzil KM, Cunliffe NA, Madhi SA, Bos P, Ngwira B, Witte D, Todd S, Louw C, Kirsten M, Aspinall S, Van Doorn LJ, Bouckenooghe A, Suryakiran PV, Han HH. Human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix™ provides protection against diverse circulating rotavirus strains in African infants: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Infect Dis 2012; 12:213. [PMID: 22974466 PMCID: PMC3462149 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2011] [Accepted: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Rotaviruses are the most important cause of severe acute gastroenteritis worldwide in children <5 years of age. The human, G1P[8] rotavirus vaccine Rotarix™ significantly reduced severe rotavirus gastroenteritis episodes in a Phase III clinical trial conducted in infants in South Africa and Malawi. This paper examines rotavirus vaccine efficacy in preventing severe rotavirus gastroenteritis, during infancy, caused by the various G and P rotavirus types encountered during the first rotavirus-season. METHODS Healthy infants aged 5-10 weeks were enrolled and randomized into three groups to receive either two (10 and 14 weeks) or three doses of Rotarix™ (together forming the pooled Rotarix™ group) or three doses of placebo at a 6,10,14-week schedule. Weekly home visits were conducted to identify gastroenteritis episodes. Rotaviruses were detected by ELISA and genotyped by RT-PCR and nucleotide sequencing. The percentage of infants with severe rotavirus gastroenteritis caused by the circulating G and P types from 2 weeks post-last dose until one year of age and the corresponding vaccine efficacy was calculated with 95% CI. RESULTS Overall, 4939 infants were vaccinated and 4417 (pooled Rotarix™ = 2974; placebo = 1443) were included in the per protocol efficacy cohort. G1 wild-type was detected in 23 (1.6%) severe rotavirus gastroenteritis episodes from the placebo group. This was followed in order of detection by G12 (15 [1%] in placebo) and G8 types (15 [1%] in placebo). Vaccine efficacy against G1 wild-type, G12 and G8 types were 64.1% (95% CI: 29.9%; 82%), 51.5% (95% CI:-6.5%; 77.9%) and 64.4% (95% CI: 17.1%; 85.2%), respectively. Genotype P[8] was the predominant circulating P type and was detected in 38 (2.6%) severe rotavirus gastroenteritis cases in placebo group. The remaining circulating P types comprised of P[4] (20 [1.4%] in placebo) and P[6] (13 [0.9%] in placebo). Vaccine efficacy against P[8] was 59.1% (95% CI: 32.8%; 75.3%), P[4] was 70.9% (95% CI: 37.5%; 87.0%) and P[6] was 55.2% (95% CI: -6.5%; 81.3%) CONCLUSIONS Rotarix™ vaccine demonstrated efficacy against severe gastroenteritis caused by diverse circulating rotavirus types. These data add to a growing body of evidence supporting heterotypic protection provided by Rotarix™. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT00241644.
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- Andrew Duncan Steele
- Rotavirus Vaccine Program, PATH, 2201 Westlake Ave, Seattle, WA, 98121, USA
- Initiative for Vaccine Research, WHO, 22 Appia Ave, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland
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- Rotavirus Vaccine Program, PATH, 2201 Westlake Ave, Seattle, WA, 98121, USA
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
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- National Institute for Communicable Diseases: a division of National Health Laboratory Services, Sandringham, South Africa
- Department of Science and Technology National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- MRC Diarrhoeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of Limpopo, Limpopo, South Africa
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- Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
- Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
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- Madibeng Centre for Research, Brits, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatric Surgery, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, RSA
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- Synexus Clinical Research SA/Rota Consortium, Pretoria, South Africa
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A “Meeting on Upstream Rotavirus Vaccines and Emerging Vaccine Producers” was held at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland on March 28–30, 2006. The purpose was to discuss, evaluate, and weigh the importance of additional rotavirus vaccine candidates following the successful international licensure of rotavirus vaccines by two major pharmaceutical companies (GlaxoSmithKline and Merck) that had been in development for many years. Both licensed vaccines are composed of live rotaviruses that are delivered orally as have been all candidate rotavirus vaccines evaluated in humans. Each is built on the experience gained with previous candidates whose development had either been discontinued or, in the case of the previously licensed rhesus rotavirus reassortant vaccine (Rotashield), was withdrawn by its manufacturer after the discovery of a rare association with intussusception. Although which alternative candidate vaccines should be supported for development and where this should be done are controversial topics, there was general agreement expressed at the Geneva meeting that further development of alternative candidates is a high priority. This development will help insure that the most safe, effective and economic vaccines are available to children in Third World nations where the vast majority of the >600,000 deaths due to rotavirus occur each year. This review is intended to provide the history and present status of rotavirus vaccines as well as a perspective on the future development of candidate vaccines as a means of promulgating plans suggested at the Geneva meeting.
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- Richard L Ward
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Yuan L, Honma S, Kim I, Kapikian AZ, Hoshino Y. Resistance to rotavirus infection in adult volunteers challenged with a virulent G1P1A[8] virus correlated with serum immunoglobulin G antibodies to homotypic viral proteins 7 and 4. J Infect Dis 2009; 200:1443-51. [PMID: 19785527 PMCID: PMC2760642 DOI: 10.1086/606116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In a study performed in 1983, 18 adult volunteers received oral challenge with the virulent human rotavirus strain D (G1P1A[8],NSP4[B]). To identify correlates of resistance to rotavirus infection, we analyzed levels of serum immunoglobulin (Ig) A and IgG antibodies to various rotaviral antigens in 16 of the 18 volunteers. METHODS We used immunocytochemical assays that involved a total of 16 different recombinant baculoviruses, with each baculovirus expressing one of the following major serotype/genotype rotavirus proteins for the serologic assays: (1) viral protein (VP) 4 with P1A[8], P1B[4], P2A[6], P3[9], or P4[10] specificity; (2) VP7 with G1-G4 or G9 specificity; and (3) nonstructural viral protein (NSP) 4 with genotype A, B, C, or D specificity. RESULTS The prechallenge titers of IgG antibody to VP7 types G1, G3, G4, and G9; VP4 types P1A[8], P1B[4], P2A[6], and P4[10]; and NSP4 type [A] in the group of noninfected volunteers (n = 11) were significantly higher than those in the group of infected volunteers (n = 5; of these 5 volunteers, 4 were symptomatically infected). Moreover, logistic regression analysis showed that resistance to rotavirus infection most closely correlated with higher prechallenge titers of IgG antibody to homotypic VP7 (G1) and VP4 (P1A[8]). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that protection against rotavirus infection and disease is primarily VP7/VP4 homotypic and, to a lesser degree, heterotypic.
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- Lijuan Yuan
- Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1410 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA (L.Y.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan (S.H)
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- Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 410A Hutcheson Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061 (I.K.)
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- Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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In 2004 and 2006, two new rotavirus vaccines - Rotarixtrade mark and RotaTeqtrade mark - were licensed worldwide. Both are live virus vaccines and are composed of either a monovalent attenuated human rotavirus or five bovine-human reassortant rotaviruses, respectively. Studies in humans and animals have reported correlations between rotavirus antibody levels and protection, the most consistent of which has been with rotavirus IgA. Cellular immunity was also found to have a role in protection after live rotavirus immunisation, particularly in mice. However, the primary importance of CD8+ T cells may be in resolution of infection and that of CD4+ T cells may be their helper function, particularly for antibody production. CD4+ T cells have been reported to have a more direct role in protection after mucosal immunisation with non-living rotavirus vaccines, possibly because of direct or indirect effects of the cytokines they generate. Immune effectors have overlapping functions, and protection against rotavirus by either live or non-living vaccines is probably enhanced by this redundancy.
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Clark HF, Offit PA, Parashar UD, Ward RL. Rotavirus vaccines. Vaccines (Basel) 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-1-4160-3611-1.50032-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Arista S, Giammanco GM, De Grazia S, Ramirez S, Lo Biundo C, Colomba C, Cascio A, Martella V. Heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of evolution of G1 human rotaviruses in a settled population. J Virol 2006; 80:10724-33. [PMID: 16928744 PMCID: PMC1641777 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00340-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A rotavirus sample collection from 19 consecutive years was used to investigate the heterogeneity and the dynamics of evolution of G1 rotavirus strains in a geographically defined population. Phylogenetic analysis of the VP7 gene sequences of G1P[8] human rotavirus strains showed the circulation of a heterogeneous population comprising three lineages and seven sublineages. Increases in the circulation of G1 rotaviruses were apparently associated with the introduction of novel G1 strains that exhibited multiple amino acid changes in antigenic regions involved in rotavirus neutralization compared to the strains circulating in the previous years. The emergence and/or introduction of G1 antigenic variants might be responsible for the continuous circulation of G1 rotaviruses in the local population, with the various lineages and sublineages appearing, disappearing, or cocirculating in an alternate fashion under the influence of immune-pressure mechanisms. Sequence analysis of VP4-encoding genes of the G1 strains revealed that the older strains were associated with a unique VP4 lineage, while a novel VP4 lineage emerged after 1995. The introduction of human rotavirus vaccines might alter the forces and balances that drive rotavirus evolution and determine the spread of novel strains that are antigenically different from those included in the vaccine formulations. The continuous emergence of VP7-VP4 gene combinations in human rotavirus strains should be taken into consideration when devising vaccination strategies.
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- Serenella Arista
- Dipartimento di Igiene e Microbiologia, via del Vespro 133, 90127, Palermo, Italy.
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McNeal MM, Belli J, Basu M, Choi AHC, Ward RL. Discovery of a new strain of murine rotavirus that is consistently shed in large quantities after oral inoculation of adult mice. Virology 2004; 320:1-11. [PMID: 15003858 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2003] [Revised: 11/07/2003] [Accepted: 11/10/2003] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In 1990, we developed the adult mouse model for studies on active immunity against shedding of the EDIM strain of murine rotavirus. Low and inconsistent levels of EDIM shedding in some strains of adult mice, particularly those on C57BL/6 backgrounds, established the need for an alternative murine rotavirus strain for these studies. Fortuitously, such a rotavirus strain was obtained from mice housed within the conventional colony at Children's Hospital. This strain, named EMcN, was clearly distinguishable from EDIM based on electropherotype. Furthermore, sequence analyses of VP4 and VP7 genes of EMcN revealed non-identities in 5% of the amino acids of both proteins relative to EDIM but established EMcN as another G3P[16] strain of murine rotavirus. Subgroup analysis showed EMcN belonged to SG1 while EDIM was found to be non-SG1/SG2. Similarly, unlike EDIM, the EMcN strain was identified as serotype G3 based on neutralization by hyperimmune antisera developed against prototype human and simian G3 rotavirus strains. Although EDIM produced more days of diarrhea and was shed in greater quantities in neonatal BALB/c mice, EMcN was shed in much greater quantities in adult BALB/c mice. More importantly, in contrast to the EDIM strain, EMcN was shown to be consistently shed in large quantities in adult C57BL/6 mice and ko mice on this background. Therefore, it is recommended that the EMcN strain be used for future challenge studies with mice on this background.
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- Monica M McNeal
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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Higo-Moriguchi K, Akahori Y, Iba Y, Kurosawa Y, Taniguchi K. Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies that neutralize human rotavirus. J Virol 2004; 78:3325-32. [PMID: 15016854 PMCID: PMC371047 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.7.3325-3332.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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A human antibody library constructed by utilizing a phage display system was used for the isolation of human antibodies with neutralizing activity specific for human rotavirus. In the library, the Fab form of an antibody fused to truncated cp3 is expressed on the phage surface. Purified virions of strain KU (G1 serotype and P[8] genotype) were used as antigen. Twelve different clones were isolated. Based on their amino acid sequences, they were classified into three groups. Three representative clones-1-2H, 2-3E, and 2-11G-were characterized. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with virus-like particles (VLP-VP2/6 and VLP-VP2/6/7) and recombinant VP4 protein produced from baculovirus recombinants indicated that 1-2H and 2-3E bind to VP4 and that 2-11G binds to VP7. The neutralization epitope recognized by each of the three human antibodies might be human specific, since all of the antigenic mutants resistant to mouse monoclonal neutralizing antibodies previously prepared were neutralized by the human antibodies obtained here. After conversion from the Fab form of an antibody into immunoglobulin G1, the neutralizing activities of these three clones toward various human rotavirus strains were examined. The 1-2H antibody exhibited neutralizing activity toward human rotaviruses with either the P[4] or P[8] genotype. Similarly, the 2-3E antibody showed cross-reactivity against HRVs with the P[6], as well as the P[8] genotype. In contrast, the 2-11G antibody neutralized only human rotaviruses with the G1 serotype. The concentration of antibodies required for 50% neutralization ranged from 0.8 to 20 micro g/ml.
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- Kyoko Higo-Moriguchi
- Department of Virology and Parasitology. Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan
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Kim Y, Nielsen PR, Hodgins D, Chang KO, Saif LJ. Lactogenic antibody responses in cows vaccinated with recombinant bovine rotavirus-like particles (VLPs) of two serotypes or inactivated bovine rotavirus vaccines. Vaccine 2002; 20:1248-58. [PMID: 11803088 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(01)00404-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Triple-layered virus-like particles (VLPs) were produced in a baculovirus expression system from the two prevalent bovine rotavirus (BRV) serotypes, IND (P[5]G6) and 2292B (P[11]G10). Five groups of pregnant cows were inoculated intramuscularly and intramammarily with IND VLPs [BRV RF VP2, and IND VP4, 6, and 7, 250 microg per dose], 2292B VLPs [RF VP2, Cr VP4 (P[11]), and 2292B VP6 and 7, 250 microg per dose], combined IND/2292B VLPs (125 microg each VLP per dose), inactivated IND BRV (5x10(7)PFU per dose, pre-inactivation), or cell supernatant (mock-controls) in incomplete Freund's adjuvant. Serum, colostrum and milk were collected and tested for isotype-specific antibodies, and homologous and heterologous neutralizing antibodies (VN) to BRV by ELISA and VN tests, respectively. After vaccination, the IgG1 and homologous VN geometric mean antibody titers (GMTs) to BRV in serum of vaccinated groups were significantly (P<0.05) higher than in the mock-controls through postpartum day (PPD) 30. In colostrum, the IgG1 and IgA, and the homologous and heterologous VN GMTs of the IND VLP, 2292B VLP, combined IND/2292B VLP and the inactivated IND groups were significantly enhanced compared to the mock-controls, except for the heterologous VN GMTs in the inactivated IND group. However, the VLP vaccine groups had significantly higher homologous and heterologous VN GMTs than the inactivated IND group. The VN GMTs of the IND/2292B VLP group were statistically similar to the homologous VN GMTs of the IND or 2292B VLP groups, although the IgG1 GMT was lower. In milk, the IgG1 and homologous VN GMTs of the VLP groups were significantly higher than the inactivated IND or the mock-control groups through PPD30. However, the heterologous and homologous VN GMTs of inactivated IND group were statistically similar to the mock-control group at PPD0 and 30, respectively. These results demonstrate that the BRV antibody titers in serum, colostrum and milk are significantly enhanced by the use of triple-layered VLPs and inactivated IND vaccines, but significantly higher antibody responses were observed in the VLP vaccinated cows. The combined IND/2292B VLP vaccine induced comparable VN responses to BRV in serum, colostrum and milk compared to those induced by the individual IND or 2292B VLP vaccines, suggesting that at least two different serotypes can be mixed to confer maximum antibody responses to the incorporated serotypes.
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- Y Kim
- Food Animal Health Research Program, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
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Menchaca G, Padilla-Noriega L, Méndez-Toss M, Contreras JF, Puerto FI, Guiscafré H, Mota F, Herrera I, Cedillo R, Muñoz O, Ward R, Hoshino Y, López S, Arias CF. Serotype specificity of the neutralizing-antibody response induced by the individual surface proteins of rotavirus in natural infections of young children. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1998; 5:328-34. [PMID: 9605987 PMCID: PMC104520 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.3.328-334.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The relative contribution of the rotavirus surface proteins, VP4 and VP7, to the induction of homotypic as well as heterotypic neutralizing antibodies (NtAbs) in natural infections was studied. The NtAb titers of paired sera from 70 infants with serologically defined primary rotavirus infections were determined with a panel of rotavirus reassortants having one surface protein from a human rotavirus (serotypes G1 to G4 for VP7 and P1A and P1B for VP4) and the other surface protein from a heterologous animal rotavirus strain. A subset of 37 children were evaluated for epitope-specific antibodies to the two proteins by an epitope-blocking assay. The infants were found to seroconvert more frequently to VP4 than to VP7 by both methods, although the titers of the seroconverters were higher to VP7 than to VP4. Both proteins induced homotypic as well as heterotypic NtAbs. G1 VP7 frequently induced a response to both G1 and G3 VP7s, while G3 VP7 and P1A VP4 induced mostly homotypic responses.
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- G Menchaca
- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
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O'Ryan ML, Mamani N, Avendaño LF, Cohen J, Peña A, Villarroel J, Chavez A, Valdivieso F, Matson DO. Molecular epidemiology of human rotaviruses in Santiago, Chile. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1997; 16:305-11. [PMID: 9076820 DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199703000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Protective immunity against rotavirus infection is directed against antigenic epitopes on the outer capsid proteins VP7 and VP4. Our aim was to characterize the epidemiology of rotavirus antigenic types over time in Santiago, Chile. METHODS We prospectively obtained 2097 stool samples for rotavirus testing, VP7 (G1 to G4) and VP4 (P4, P6, P8, P9) typing from children with diarrhea evaluated in emergency rooms of 5 base hospitals of Santiago. In addition 256 rotavirus-positive samples collected between 1985 and 1987 in the north health care area of Santiago were studied. RESULTS Of 995 rotavirus-positive samples obtained 825 (82%) were typable for 1 or more VP7 types. G1 represented 81% of the G-typed samples during 1993 through 1995 and 77% during 1985 through 1987, predominating in all health care areas. G2 was next most common in all 5 areas, representing 6 to 23% of typed samples, with 1 area, the Southeast concentrating a significantly higher number of G2 infections. G2 declined from 35% of rotavirus-positive samples in 1993 to 0% in 1995 (P < 0.001), and from 25% to 2% in the north health care area from 1985 to 1987 (P < 0.001). G4 was uncommon and significantly more prevalent in 1985 through 1987 than in 1993 through 1995 (7% vs. 3%, P = 0.015). G3 was not detected. G1P8 (53%) and G2P4 (16%) combinations were by far the most commonly detected G-P associations. CONCLUSIONS In Santiago, Chile, rotavirus antigenic type G1P8 has been highly prevalent and G2P4 has circulated in cycles. Differences in epidemiology of rotavirus antigenic types worldwide may prove to be relevant in efficacy of rotavirus vaccines.
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- M L O'Ryan
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Ishida S, Feng N, Tang B, Gilbert JM, Greenberg HB. Quantification of systemic and local immune responses to individual rotavirus proteins during rotavirus infection in mice. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:1694-700. [PMID: 8784572 PMCID: PMC229097 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.7.1694-1700.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The purpose of the present study was to develop a quantitative assay that could be used to measure the local and systemic immune responses to specific rotavirus proteins following rotavirus infection of adult mice. To measure these responses, we used an immunocytochemical staining assay of Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-9) cells which were infected with recombinant baculovirus expressing selected rotavirus proteins. The specificity of the assay was documented by using a series of monoclonal antibodies to individual rotavirus proteins. We observed that the assay had high levels of sensitivity and specificity for a series of VP7- and VP4-specific neutralizing monoclonal antibodies which recognized conformation-dependent epitopes on their target proteins. We also studied immunoglobulin G (IgG) immune responses in serum and IgA immune responses in the stools of mice infected with wild-type murine rotavirus strain EHPw. In both sera and stools, the most immunogenic proteins were VP6 and VP4. VP2 was less immunogenic than VP6 or VP4, and the immune responses to VP7, NSP2, and NSP4 were very low in serum and undetectable in stools.
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- S Ishida
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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Ward RL, Bernstein DI. Lack of correlation between serum rotavirus antibody titers and protection following vaccination with reassortant RRV vaccines. US Rotavirus Vaccine Efficacy Group. Vaccine 1995; 13:1226-32. [PMID: 8578808 DOI: 10.1016/0264-410x(95)00060-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In a large placebo-controlled efficacy trial of the rhesus tetravalent (RRV-TV) and serotype 1 monovalent (RRV-S1) rotavirus vaccines in multiple sites throughout the United States, protection against rotavirus disease over a 2-year period was found to be 57 and 40%, respectively (Bernstein et al., J. Am. Med. Assoc., 1995, 273, 1191-1196). Sera collected from a subset of subjects during this trial were used to determine possible correlations between rotavirus antibody responses after vaccination and protection. Between 82% (RRV-S1) and 92% (RRV-TV) of the vaccinees seroconverted by at least one of the six antibody assays performed (i.e. rotavirus IgA and neutralizing antibody to RRV and serotype 1-4 human rotaviruses). Rises in neutralizing antibody were due primarily to RRV. The seroconversion rate was only 18-22% to each of the four human rotavirus serotypes following RRV-TV vaccination and was only 43% to serotype 1 human rotavirus after RRV-S1 administration. Furthermore, no correlate of immunity against rotavirus infection or disease was identifiable based on seroconversion to any of the antibodies measured. Likewise, no consistent relationship was found between the titers of any of these six antibodies following vaccination and protection against rotavirus, thus suggesting that serum antibody titers will not be useful markers of protection with these reassortant RRV vaccines. In addition, vaccinated subjects did not develop higher titers of neutralizing antibody to human rotaviruses following a subsequent natural rotavirus illness, a further indication that only weak immune responses to human rotaviruses were stimulated by vaccination with the RRV reassortants.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R L Ward
- Division of Clinical Virology, J.N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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Contreras JF, Menchaca GE, Padilla-Noriega L, Tamez RS, Greenberg HB, López S, Arias CF. Heterogeneity of VP4 neutralization epitopes among serotype P1A human rotavirus strains. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1995; 2:506-8. [PMID: 7583936 PMCID: PMC170191 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.2.4.506-508.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We have used serotype-specific VP4 and VP7 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (Nt-MAbs), as well as subgroup (SG)-specific MAbs, to characterize by enzyme immunoassay rotavirus strains isolated from diarrheic infants in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, from July 1993 to March 1994. Of a total of 465 children studied, 140 were rotavirus positive, including 3 patients infected with non-group A rotaviruses. The SG and VP7 (G) serotype specificities could be determined for 118 (84%) of the 140 rotavirus-positive stool specimens; 4 rotavirus strains were serotype G1 and SGII; 1 strain was serotype G2 and SGI+II; 112 strains were serotype G3 and SGII; 1 strain was serotype G3 and SGI; and none of the strains was serotype G4. Fifty-eight specimens, representing the 13 different group A rotavirus electropherotypes detected, were chosen for VP4 (P) serotyping. Of these, 48 (83%) strains reacted with the P1A serotype-specific Nt-MAb 1A10. None of the strains reacted with the serotype P2-specific Nt-MAbs tested. Not all viruses that reacted with Nt-MAb 1A10 were recognized by Nt-MAbs 2A3 and 2G1, which also recognize P1A strains, indicating heterogeneity of neutralization epitopes among serotype P1A human rotaviruses. This heterogeneity could be relevant for the specificity of the VP4-mediated neutralizing antibody immune response and indicates the need for antigenic characterization, in addition to genomic typing, of the VP4 proteins of circulating human rotavirus field strains.
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- J F Contreras
- Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
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Nakagomi O, Isegawa Y, Ward RL, Knowlton DR, Kaga E, Nakagomi T, Ueda S. Naturally occurring dual infection with human and bovine rotaviruses as suggested by the recovery of G1P8 and G1P5 rotaviruses from a single patient. Arch Virol 1994; 137:381-8. [PMID: 7944957 DOI: 10.1007/bf01309483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Culture adaptation of rotaviruses from an infant with severe diarrhea in Cincinnati, Ohio, yielded not only a virus with the original RNA electropherotype (CJN) but also rotaviruses with other electropherotypes, the most dominant of which was called CJN-M [Ward RL, Knowlton DR, Schiff GM, Hoshino Y, Greenberg HB (1988) in J Virol 62: 1543-1549]. RNA-RNA hybridization and sequencing studies indicated that CJN was a typical G1P8 human rotavirus while CJN-M was a G1P5 strain and contained four gene segments (including segment 4) of a bovine rotavirus. Thus, the infant was apparently dually infected with human and bovine rotaviruses.
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- O Nakagomi
- Department of Microbiology, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan
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- Y Hoshino
- Epidemiology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Although studies of rotavirus immunity in experimental animals and humans have often yielded conflicting data, a preponderance of evidence supports the following answers to the questions initially posed. 1. What is the importance of virus serotype in formulating an optimal vaccine? Both vp4 and vp7 induce virus-neutralizing antibodies after either natural infection or immunization; the capacity of vp4 to induce rotavirus-specific neutralizing antibodies is probably greater than that of vp7. However, protection against disease after immunization of infants and young children is induced by strains heterotypic to the challenge virus (e.g., immunization with WC3 induces protection against disease induced by serotypically distinct human G1 strains). In addition, oral inoculation of infants with primate or bovine reassortant rotaviruses containing genes that encode human vp7 has not consistently induced a higher level of protection against challenge than that induced by parent animal rotaviruses (see Table I). Therefore, although vp4 or vp7 or both are probably important in inducing protection against challenge, it has not been clearly demonstrated that inclusion of the epidemiologically important human (as distinct from animal) P or G type is important in protection against human disease. 2. Which immunological effector arm most likely protects against rotavirus disease? No immunological effector arm clearly explains protection against heterotypic challenge. Protection against disease is not predicted by rotavirus-specific neutralizing antibodies in serum. Rotavirus-specific, binding sIgA in feces [detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)] induced after natural infection does correlate with protection against disease induced by subsequent infection. However, protection after immunization with WC3 may occur in the absence of a detectable fecal sIgA response. The relationship between rotavirus-binding sIgA and sIgA-mediated neutralizing activity directed against the challenge virus remains to be determined. Binding rotavirus-specific sIgA in feces detected by ELISA may only be a correlate of other events occurring at the intestinal mucosal surface. The presence of broadly cross-reactive, rotavirus-specific CTLs at the intestinal mucosal surface of mice acutely after infection is intriguing. It would be of interest to determine the degree to which the presence of cross-reactive, rotavirus-specific CTLs in the circulation is predictive of the presence of virus-specific CTLs among intestinal lymphocytes and protection against challenge. Unfortunately, studies of virus-specific CTLs are difficult to perform in children. 3. By what means is virus antigen best presented to the host to elicit a protective immune response? Oral inoculation may not be necessary to induce a protective, virus-specific immune response at the intestinal mucosal surface.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- P A Offit
- Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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- J L Gombold
- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104
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- P A Offit
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Rotaviruses cause gastroenteritis in neonates of many animal species including cattle, swine, horses, dogs, cats, chickens and turkeys. Rotavirions are nonenveloped, are about 75 nm in diameter, have a double capsid, and contain 11 double-stranded RNA segments as their genome. Several antigenically distinct groups of rotaviruses have been identified and have been alphabetically designated as A through G. Group A rotaviruses were the first group of rotaviruses isolated and are the most commonly detected rotaviruses in diarrheic animals. Group A rotaviruses have two surface proteins, VP4 and VP7, both of which are important in serotype determination and in inducing neutralizing antibodies and protective immunity. Multiple serotypes of group A rotavirus based on glycoprotein VP7 (designated as G types) and based on VP4 (P types) have been identified. The immune response to rotaviruses is essentially serotype specific, however, cross-reactive or heterotypic epitopes have also been identified. Currently acceptable methods for immunogen quantitation include the induction of neutralizing antibody in host or laboratory animals. The in vivo efficacy of vaccines against rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis remains the standard method against which in vitro methods must be compared. Several animal models have been developed which could potentially be used in evaluating the efficacy of candidate vaccines. Monoclonal antibodies to rotavirus immunogens are also currently available and serve as valuable reagents for in vitro quantitation of rotaviral immunogens.
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- P S Paul
- Veterinary Medical Research Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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Hussein HA, Parwani AV, Rosen BI, Lucchelli A, Saif LJ. Detection of rotavirus serotypes G1, G2, G3, and G11 in feces of diarrheic calves by using polymerase chain reaction-derived cDNA probes. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 31:2491-6. [PMID: 8408573 PMCID: PMC265783 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.31.9.2491-2496.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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On the basis of antigenic variability in the VP7 outer capsid glycoprotein, at least 14 G serotypes exist for group A rotaviruses. Serotypic diversity exists among bovine rotaviruses (BRV), with serotypes G1, G6, G8, and G10 reported for cattle. Although G1 and G8 rotaviruses were originally described for humans, the recent isolation of G6 and G10 rotaviruses from humans further emphasizes the serotypic similarity between human and bovine rotaviruses and the possible zoonotic potential of rotaviruses. Results of our previous studies have indicated that more than 24% of BRV-positive field samples from diarrheic calves were nonreactive with cDNA probes or monoclonal antibodies to serotypes G6, G8, and G10. In this study, cDNA probes were prepared by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the hyperdivergent regions of the VP7 genes (nucleotides 51 to 392) from human (G1, G2, and G3) and porcine (G4, G5, and G11) rotaviruses. These probes were used in a dot blot hybridization assay to further characterize the G types of 59 BRV strains (fecal samples from diarrheic calves in Ohio, Nebraska, Washington, and South Dakota) that were nonreactive with cDNA probes to G6, G8, and G10. Rotaviruses belonging to serotypes G1 (n = 7), G2 (n = 1), G3 (n = 2), and G11 (n = 3) were identified among the BRV field samples. The BRV associated with these G types accounted for 22% of the samples tested; the other 78% of these samples remained untypeable with these probes. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the United States of the identification among BRV isolates of rotavirus serotypes G1, G2, G3, and G11.
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- H A Hussein
- Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster 44691
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Nakagomi O, Nakagomi T. Interspecies transmission of rotaviruses studied from the perspective of genogroup. Microbiol Immunol 1993; 37:337-48. [PMID: 7689137 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1993.tb03220.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- O Nakagomi
- Department of Microbiology, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan
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Xu Z, Hardy ME, Williams JD, Woode GN, Ramig RF. Immunodominant neutralizing antigens depend on the virus strain during a primary immune response in calves to bovine rotaviruses. Vet Microbiol 1993; 35:33-43. [PMID: 8395744 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(93)90114-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Sera obtained from gnotobiotic calves (GC antisera) infected with bovine rotavirus strain NCDV or B223 from a previous study (Woode et al., 1987), which have different G (G6 and G10 respectively) and P serotypes, were compared for their neutralization (NT) properties to a number of human and animal rotaviruses (representing G serotype 1-6, 8-10). Two distinct patterns of neutralization were identified from these GC antisera. Of all the serotypes tested, NCDV GC antisera neutralized only B641 to a relatively high titer compared with the homologous titer, implying a narrow pattern of NT response. Analysis with reassortants indicated that the response was primarily to VP4. In contrast, B223 GC antisera neutralized most of the G serotypes tested to titers within 3-7 fold of the homologous titer, demonstrating a broad pattern of NT response. In the earlier study B223 was shown to induce a heterotypic protection against bovine rotavirus B641 (G serotype 6), and the serologic data obtained from this study indicates that a B223 vaccine might provide broad protection against several different serotypes of human and animal rotaviruses.
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- Z Xu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-4467
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Richardson SC, Grimwood K, Bishop RF. Analysis of homotypic and heterotypic serum immune responses to rotavirus proteins following primary rotavirus infection by using the radioimmunoprecipitation technique. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 31:377-85. [PMID: 8381813 PMCID: PMC262769 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.31.2.377-385.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Three sequential serum samples collected from each of 20 young children with a naturally acquired primary rotavirus infection were assayed by the radioimmunoprecipitation technique for immunoglobulin G antibodies to rotavirus structural and nonstructural proteins of the four major human rotavirus serotypes G1, P1A; G2, P1B; G3, P2; and G4, P2. Fourteen children were infected with a serotype G1 rotavirus strain and six children were infected with a serotype G4 rotavirus strain. Sera were collected from each child in the acute and convalescent periods postinfection and also approximately 4 months later. Serum immune responses to rotavirus core antigens VP2 and VP3, to the major inner capsid antigen VP6, to nonstructural proteins NS35, NS28, and NS26, and to the outer capsid neutralization antigen VP4 of all test strains were detected in the majority of patients. These responses do not appear to be influenced by the G type or P type of the rotavirus strain used in the reactions. Homologous responses to the main neutralization antigen VP7 were detected in 93% of patients with serotype G1 infections and 50% of patients with serotype G4 infections. Heterologous VP7 responses were less frequently detected and were restricted to G1, G3, and G4 serotype rotavirus strains. No responses to VP7 of the serotype G2 rotavirus strain were detected in any patients. Heterotypic immune responses to the neutralization antigens, at least following serotype G1 and G4 infections, therefore appear to consist primarily of responses to VP4 rather than to VP7.
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- S C Richardson
- Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Redmond MJ, Ijaz MK, Parker MD, Sabara MI, Dent D, Gibbons E, Babiuk LA. Assembly of recombinant rotavirus proteins into virus-like particles and assessment of vaccine potential. Vaccine 1993; 11:273-81. [PMID: 8382422 DOI: 10.1016/0264-410x(93)90029-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Rotavirus structural proteins VP4, VP6 and VP7 from Bovine Rotavirus Strain C486 were cloned and expressed in a baculovirus expression system. Combinations of the proteins were assembled into a series of virus-like particles, and a murine model was used to determine the capacity of the recombinant proteins and particles to induce protective immunity. All of the proteins induced humoral immunity as measured by an ELISA against whole virus. However, only the antisera from animals immunized with VP4 neutralized virus and inhibited haemagglutination. Challenge of neonates born to animals immunized with VP4 protein on assembled particles or in cell lysates showed protection against challenge with both homologous (bovine C486) and heterologous (SA-11) strains of rotavirus. In contrast, the offspring of mice immunized with VP6 were only partially protected. Neonates of animals immunized with virus-like particles composed of VP7 assembled on VP6 spherical particles were protected against challenge with the homotypic virus and significantly protected from a heterotypic challenge whereas unassembled VP7 protein provided only partial protection against challenge.
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- M J Redmond
- Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Ward RL, McNeal MM, Sander DS, Greenberg HB, Bernstein DI. Immunodominance of the VP4 neutralization protein of rotavirus in protective natural infections of young children. J Virol 1993; 67:464-8. [PMID: 8416378 PMCID: PMC237383 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.1.464-468.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Natural infection by very similar strains of rotavirus during the 1988-1989 rotavirus season in Cincinnati, Ohio, provided complete protection of young children against subsequent rotavirus illnesses for a period of at least 2 years. Using this limited strain variability, we characterized the association between the titers of antibody to either the VP4 or the VP7 neutralization protein and protection against subsequent rotavirus disease. This was done by using reassortants that contained only one of the two rotavirus neutralization proteins of 89-12, a culture-adapted isolate representative of the protective rotavirus strains. The other neutralization protein in these reassortants was derived from a heterologous rotavirus (WC3 or EDIM) to which the infected subjects made little or no neutralizing antibody (titers, < or = 20). The geometric mean titer (GMT) of antibody to 89-12 in convalescent-phase sera from the 21 subjects analyzed was 2,323. The GMT of antibody to a reassortant (strain WC-4) that contained the VP7 protein of 89-12 and VP4 of WC3 was 387. In contrast, the GMT of antibody to a reassortant (strain EDIM-7) that contained the VP4 protein of 89-12 and the VP7 protein of EDIM was 1,078. Thus, the major neutralization response was directed against VP4 rather than VP7, a finding that has important implications for development of appropriate rotavirus vaccines.
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- R L Ward
- Division of Clinical Virology, J.N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
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Nagesha HS, Huang J, Holmes IH. A variant serotype G3 rotavirus isolated from an unusually severe outbreak of diarrhoea in piglets. J Med Virol 1992; 38:79-85. [PMID: 1334131 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890380202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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About 80% of faecal samples from severe outbreak of porcine diarrhoea (scours) were positive for rotavirus. Rotavirus positive samples were analyzed for their antigenic properties and amino acid sequences of the glycoprotein genes. These viruses could not be assigned to any serotypes using serotyping monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) developed for porcine rotaviruses [Nagesha and Holmes: Journal of Medical Virology 35:206-211, 1991b]. When two such viruses were isolated in cell culture and analyzed by neutralization tests using hyperimmune sera they showed only one way antigenic relation with both human and porcine viruses belonging to serotype G3. In addition none of the serotyping MAbs neutralized these two virus isolates. There was no base variation between VP7 genes of faecal and cell culture isolates. Predicted amino acid sequences of the VP7 gene showed marked epitope variation from other porcine type G3 isolates with amino acid substitutions and an additional glycosylation site at residue 238. This antigenic variation seen in rotaviruses appears similar to that of influenza viruses undergoing antigenic drift.
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- H S Nagesha
- School of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Padilla-Noriega L, Fiore L, Rennels MB, Losonsky GA, Mackow ER, Greenberg HB. Humoral immune responses to VP4 and its cleavage products VP5* and VP8* in infants vaccinated with rhesus rotavirus. J Clin Microbiol 1992; 30:1392-7. [PMID: 1320626 PMCID: PMC265298 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.30.6.1392-1397.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The humoral immune response to rhesus rotavirus (RRV) VP4 and its cleavage products VP5* and VP8* was determined in paired serum samples from 44 infants vaccinated with RRV or human rotavirus-RRV reassortants and 5 placebo recipients. Our aim was to try to measure the response to those regions of VP4 most closely related to protection. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to measure the immunoglobulin G immune response to baculovirus-expressed full-length RRV VP4, full-length VP8*, and the amino-terminal polypeptide of VP5* called VP5*(1) (amino acids 248 to 474). The two antigenic regions of VP4 selected for study, VP5*(1) and VP8*, have previously been shown to contain most of the cross-reactive and strain-specific neutralization epitopes, respectively, while the remaining carboxy-terminal half of VP5* (amino acids 475 to 776) has not been clearly associated with neutralization. All three recombinant proteins were antigenically conserved, since they reacted with a library of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies directed at VP4. There was a high percentage of seroresponders to VP4 (61%) or to VP8* (52%), but fewer infants seroresponded to VP5*(1) (11%). In addition, infants responding to VP5*(1) had considerably lower titers than to VP4 or VP8*. Immune response to VP4 correlated strongly with the responses detected by the plaque reduction neutralization assay but did not correlate with the responses detected by the ELISA to whole RRV. These data imply that the VP5*(1) region is less immunogenic than the VP8* region of VP4 in infants immunized with RRV or RRV reassortants. The low immunogenicity of VP5* might adversely affect the efficacy of RRV vaccine candidates.
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- L Padilla-Noriega
- Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305
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Matson DO, O'Ryan ML, Pickering LK, Chiba S, Nakata S, Raj P, Estes MK. Characterization of serum antibody responses to natural rotavirus infections in children by VP7-specific epitope-blocking assays. J Clin Microbiol 1992; 30:1056-61. [PMID: 1374761 PMCID: PMC265223 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.30.5.1056-1061.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Knowledge of the immune response to rotavirus is crucial for vaccine development. We compared an epitope-blocking assay (EBA) that uses VP7-specific monoclonal antibodies with neutralization assays (NAs) with polyclonal antisera for detecting serum antibody responses after natural rotavirus infection in children. Twenty-six serum pairs from children living in an orphanage with and without symptoms during two rotavirus outbreaks were evaluated for VP7 type 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-specific antibody responses. In the first outbreak, which was caused by a VP7 type 3 strain, homotypic antibody responses were detected in 11 of 11 symptomatic children by NA and in 10 of 11 symptomatic children by EBA. Heterotypic antibody responses were detected more frequently (12 of 15 children) by NA than by EBA, and the heterotypic epitope-blocking antibody responses occurred in children older than 14 months of age. Antibody responses in asymptomatic children were more commonly detected by EBA than by NA. EBA results from the sera of children in the second outbreak indicated that it was caused by VP7 type 4, whereas NA results suggested it was caused by VP7 type 3. Our results confirm that EBA is a sensitive and specific method for determining VP7 type-specific immune responses after natural rotavirus infections.
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- D O Matson
- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Ward RL, McNeal MM, Sheridan JF. Evidence that active protection following oral immunization of mice with live rotavirus is not dependent on neutralizing antibody. Virology 1992; 188:57-66. [PMID: 1314467 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90734-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Studies were performed to determine whether active immunity against murine rotavirus (EDIM) infection of mice correlated with titers of neutralizing antibody to the challenge virus. Neonatal mice administered either murine or heterologous rotaviruses all developed diarrhea and high titers of serum rotavirus IgG. However, only mice given EDIM, the murine EB, or simian SA11-FEM strains were protected against EDIM infection when challenged 60 days later. Other serotype 3 strains (RRV, SA11-SEM), as well as strains belonging to serotypes 5 and 6 (OSU, NCDV, WC3), were not protective. Serum neutralizing antibody titers to EDIM were almost undetectable after rotavirus infection with any strain and could not, therefore, be correlated with protection. Likewise, intestinal neutralizing antibody titers were extremely low 21 days after EDIM infection, and by 60 days after inoculation, EDIM-infected mice had no greater intestinal neutralizing antibody titers than uninoculated controls. Mice inoculated with SA11-FEM as neonates had much higher serum rotavirus IgG responses than mice inoculated as adults, and only those infected with this virus as neonates were protected. Thus, although immunity to EDIM did not correlate with the presence of neutralizing antibody to EDIM, it did correlate with the overall magnitude of the immune response after inoculation with SA11-FEM.
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- R L Ward
- Division of Clinical Virology, J. N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
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Ward RL, Clemens JD, Sack DA, Knowlton DR, McNeal MM, Huda N, Ahmed F, Rao M, Schiff GM. Culture adaptation and characterization of group A rotaviruses causing diarrheal illnesses in Bangladesh from 1985 to 1986. J Clin Microbiol 1991; 29:1915-23. [PMID: 1663517 PMCID: PMC270235 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.29.9.1915-1923.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Group A rotaviruses collected between 1985 and 1986 during comprehensive surveillance of treated diarrheal episodes occurring in a rural Bangladesh population were culture adapted and characterized by electropherotype, serotype, and subgroup. Of 454 episodes of rotavirus-associated diarrhea, rotaviruses were culture adapted from 381 (84%), and 335 contained 11 electrophoretically identical segments in unpassaged and cultured preparations. These 335 comprised 69 different electropherotypes with between 1 (32 isolates) and 79 representatives. The persistence of specific rotavirus strains within the study population, as defined by the detection of viruses with particular electropherotypes, was generally limited to a period of only a few months. All 335 isolates were serotyped by neutralization with hyperimmune antisera to prototype rotavirus strains representative of serotypes 1 to 4, i.e., Wa, DS-1, P, and ST-3. It was found that 80, 48, 119, and 88 isolates belonged to serotypes 1 to 4, respectively. The concentrations of hyperimmune antisera required to neutralize these isolates, however, were at least threefold greater than those needed to neutralize the homologous strains. Therefore, the isolates appeared to have altered neutralization epitopes from their prototype strains. Furthermore, the serotype 4 isolates were consistently shown to be much more closely related to the serotype 4B VA70 strain than the serotype 4A ST-3 strain. All but two isolates identified as serotypes 1, 3, or 4 had long electropherotypes and were subgroup II, and all but one serotype 2 isolate were subgroup I and had short electropherotypes. The three disparate strains appeared to be genetic reassortants. Evidence is presented that dual infections required for reassortant formation were not uncommon. Thus, formation of multiple reassortants may have been a cause for the observed rapid shift in viral strains within the study population.
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- R L Ward
- Division of Clinical Virology, James N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
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Ijaz MK, Attah-Poku SK, Redmond MJ, Parker MD, Sabara MI, Frenchick P, Babiuk LA. Heterotypic passive protection induced by synthetic peptides corresponding to VP7 and VP4 of bovine rotavirus. J Virol 1991; 65:3106-13. [PMID: 1851871 PMCID: PMC240966 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.6.3106-3113.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We have evaluated the potential of two peptides derived from highly conserved regions of rotavirus outer capsid proteins (VP7 and VP4) to act as a rotavirus vaccine. The capacity of peptides coupled to rotavirus VP6 spherical particles to provide passive protection in a murine model was compared with the protection induced by peptide-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) conjugates. Female mice were immunized a total of three times before and during pregnancy. Suckling mouse pups were challenged at 7 days of age with either homologous or heterologous rotavirus serotypes. The efficacy of vaccination was determined by analyzing the clinical symptoms and measuring xylose adsorption in the intestine. In this model the VP4 peptide-VP6 conjugate provided protection equal to that obtained using bovine rotavirus (BRV) as the immunogen. The VP7 peptide-VP6 conjugate provided slightly less protection than the VP4 peptide-VP6 conjugate. A mixture of the VP4 peptide-VP6 and VP7 peptide-VP6 conjugates provided better heterologous protection than immunization with BRV. In contrast, KLH-conjugated peptides provided only partial protection. The significance of a synthetic-peptide-based rotavirus vaccine in the prevention of rotavirus infections is discussed.
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- M K Ijaz
- Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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Shaw RD, Groene WS, Mackow ER, Merchant AA, Cheng EH. VP4-specific intestinal antibody response to rotavirus in a murine model of heterotypic infection. J Virol 1991; 65:3052-9. [PMID: 1709695 PMCID: PMC240960 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.6.3052-3059.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We have adapted a murine model of heterotypic rotavirus infection for the purpose of evaluating the intestinal antibody response to an infection that mimics human vaccination. Neonatal mice were infected with the rhesus rotavirus (RRV). The enzyme-linked immunospot assay was used in order to avoid common artifacts in the quantitation of intestinal immune responses inherent in measurements of luminal or serum immunoglobulins and to obtain easily quantifiable data in a flexible and convenient format. Functionally active lymphocytes were harvested from the spleen, small intestinal lamina propria, Peyer's patches, and mesenteric lymph nodes and processed into single-cell suspensions. Antibody-secreting cells (ASC) were quantitated from 5 to 50 days after infection for total, RRV-specific, baculovirus-expressed VP4-specific, and single-shell RRV-specific ASC secreting either immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, or IgA. The response to VP4 constituted less than 1.5% of the total virus-specific response, which was located almost exclusively in the gut and was 90% IgA. Intestinal ASC were directed overwhelmingly toward proteins incorporated in the single-shell particle, predominantly VP2 and VP6. We conclude that the antibody response to VP4, thought to be the site of the important neutralization sites conserved among several rotavirus serotypes, is an extremely small portion of the overall antibody response in the intestinal tract.
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- R D Shaw
- Department of Medicine, Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center, New York 11768
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Taniguchi K, Urasawa T, Kobayashi N, Ahmed MU, Adachi N, Chiba S, Urasawa S. Antibody response to serotype-specific and cross-reactive neutralization epitopes on VP4 and VP7 after rotavirus infection or vaccination. J Clin Microbiol 1991; 29:483-7. [PMID: 1709946 PMCID: PMC269805 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.29.3.483-487.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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By using a competitive solid-phase immunoassay with serotype-specific and cross-reactive neutralizing monoclonal antibodies directed at VP4 and VP7, we tested the antibody responses to some neutralization epitopes on VP4 and VP7 in individuals infected or vaccinated with rotavirus. Antibody responses to VP7 epitopes of the infecting serotype of virus were found at a high frequency in both infants and children. In contrast, antibody responses to VP4 and heterotypic VP7 were observed only when the individuals possessed antibodies to any serotype of rotavirus in their acute-phase or prevaccination sera.
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- K Taniguchi
- Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical College, Japan
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VP4 relationship of Australian porcine rotaviruses were identified using genetic reassortants and MAbs. All porcine virus isolates except BEN-144 appeared to share VP4 antigenicity with OSU virus. VP4 and BEN-144 virus (Gottfried-like virus) showed some antigenic relationships with the human neonatal viruses ST-3 and RV-3. In addition, VP4 of porcine CRW-8 showed antigenic relationships with simian SA-11. RRV and also canine K9 viruses, while that of porcine TFR-41 showed at least one way VP4 antigenic relatedness with UK bovine rotavirus. Furthermore, BMI-1 virus which is antigenically similar to an American virus SB1-A (a naturally occurring reassortant) may have arisen similarly by gene reassortment in nature in Australia.
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- H S Nagesha
- School of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Kobayashi N, Taniguchi K, Urasawa T, Urasawa S. Preparation and characterization of a neutralizing monoclonal antibody directed to VP4 of rotavirus strain K8 which has unique VP4 neutralization epitopes. Arch Virol 1991; 121:153-62. [PMID: 1722090 DOI: 10.1007/bf01316751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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For selecting the neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (N-MAbs) directed to VP4 of rotavirus strain K8, which has unique VP4 neutralization epitopes, we prepared several reassortant viruses by mixed infection of two different strains K8 (serotype 1) and P (serotype 3) in vitro: three reassortant clones having VP4 of K8 and VP7 of P and four clones having VP4 of P and VP7 of K8. By using these reassortants in screening hybridomas, a N-MAb (K8-2C12) directed to strain K8-specific VP4 was obtained. The MAb K8-2C12 neutralized only K8 when tested against numerous strains of different serotypes, while in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay this MAb reacted also with simian rotavirus SA11 (serotype 3), bovine rotavirus NCDV (serotype 6), and human rotavirus (HRV) strain 69M (serotype 8). Neutralization-resistant mutants of K8 were selected by the K8-2C12 antibody and VP4 amino acid sequences of the mutants were determined. Single amino acid substitution was detected in the three mutant clones at position 394, which is included in the major cross-reactive neutralization region identified in other rotaviruses.
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- N Kobayashi
- Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical College, Japan
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Kobayashi N, Taniguchi K, Urasawa S. Operational overlapping of cross-reactive and serotype-specific neutralization epitopes on VP7 of human rotavirus serotype 3. Arch Virol 1991; 117:73-84. [PMID: 1706592 DOI: 10.1007/bf01310493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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VP7-specific neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (N-MAbs) to serotype 3 human rotavirus were produced to analyze serotype 3-specific and cross-reactive neutralization epitopes on VP7. On the basis of the reactivity patterns in neutralization tests with various human and animal strains, a total of 10 N-MAbs could be classified into four groups; five antibodies specific to serotype 3 were divided into two groups, and five antibodies consisted of two groups which are cross-reactive with strain 69 M (serotype 8) or strain WI61 (serotype 9). Seven N-MAbs showed the same reactivity patterns to the virus strains in both neutralization tests and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), while three N-MAbs specific to serotype 3 in neutralization showed a cross-reactivity with the serotype 8 strain in ELISA. Neutralization-resistant mutants of serotype 3 strains P and YO were selected by the N-MAbs. Cross-neutralization tests between the mutants and the MAbs indicated the presence of two serotype-specific (S1 and S2) and three cross-reactive (C1, C2, and C3) epitope groups. S1, S2, and C3 epitope groups overlapped operationally each other, and the S1 epitope group had an overlapping with the C1 epitope group. However, C2 epitope group identified by the MAbs which neutralized serotypes 3 and 9, had no operational overlapping with any other epitope groups.
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- N Kobayashi
- Department of Hygiene, Sapporo Medical College, Japan
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- R F Ramig
- Baylor College of Medicine, Division of Molecular Virology, Houston, Texas 77030
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Ward RL, McNeal MM, Sheridan JF. Development of an adult mouse model for studies on protection against rotavirus. J Virol 1990; 64:5070-5. [PMID: 2168987 PMCID: PMC247999 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.10.5070-5075.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Although mice have been used as an animal model for studies on rotavirus disease, these studies have been limited by the short time period after birth during which mice are susceptible to rotavirus illness (i.e., approximately 15 days). To overcome this limitation, an adult mouse model was developed in which the endpoint was infection rather than illness. The model developed utilized a strain of mouse rotavirus (EDIM) adapted to grow in culture by multiple passages in MA104 cells. The second cell culture passage of EDIM caused severe diarrhea in neonatal BALB/c mice, and little or no amelioration of disease was observed after nine cell culture passages, even when this preparation was plaque purified. Oral administration of 2 x 10(3) PFU of passage 9 also consistently caused infection of mice 4, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, and 180 days of age as determined by viral shedding and seroconversion. Reinoculation of these mice with the same virus preparation at 2, 3, or 4 months after the first inoculation produced no evidence of reinfection. In contrast, infection of neonatal mice with the heterotypic WC3 bovine rotavirus did not prevent reinfection with culture-adapted EDIM. Thus, this strain of EDIM caused consistent infection of previously uninoculated neonatal and adult BALB/c mice and produced homotypic but not heterotypic protection against reinfection.
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- R L Ward
- James N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
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Richardson SC, Bishop RF. Homotypic serum antibody responses to rotavirus proteins following primary infection of young children with serotype 1 rotavirus. J Clin Microbiol 1990; 28:1891-7. [PMID: 2172292 PMCID: PMC268073 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.28.9.1891-1897.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The class-specific antibody responses to serotype 1 rotavirus structural proteins were examined by immunoblotting with sera obtained from young children hospitalized with acute rotavirus diarrhea caused by serotype 1. All were believed to be primary infections. Three consecutive samples were obtained from 16 patients during the acute and convalescent phases of the disease and then approximately 4 months later. Immunoglobulin G (IgG)-class antibody responses to two inner capsid proteins (VP2 and VP6) and to the major homologous outer capsid protein (VP7) were detected in all patients. Antibody responses to VP6 were rapid, increased in intensity during 20 to 40 days after the onset of symptoms, and persisted for more than 4 months. Responses to VP2 and VP7 were more delayed, were maximal in convalescent-phase sera, and decreased markedly in intensity 4 months after the onset of symptoms in the majority of children. Two patients with evidence of mixed infection showed persisting high levels of antibody to VP7. Responses to the outer capsid protein VP4 were detected in 67% of patients, peaked at 20 to 40 days after the onset of symptoms, and were no longer detected at 4 months in the majority of patients. It is likely that the immunoblotting technique underestimated responses to VP4. Acute- and convalescent-phase sera (known to contain antirotavirus IgM or IgA measured by enzyme immunoassay) were also examined by immunoblotting. IgM- and IgA-class antibody responses to viral proteins VP2, VP4, and VP7 appeared to be qualitatively identical to those observed for IgG in the same serum samples.
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- S C Richardson
- Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Matsuda Y, Nakagomi O, Offit PA. Presence of three P types (VP4 serotypes) and two G types (VP7 serotypes) among bovine rotavirus strains. Arch Virol 1990; 115:199-207. [PMID: 2175589 DOI: 10.1007/bf01310530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cross neutralization tests with a panel of rotavirus strains representing previously described nine VP7 (G) serotypes revealed that bovine rotavirus strain KK-3, a prototype Japanese bovine serotype 2, belonged to a new serotype (G10), confirming and extending the recent report of Snodgrass et al. [J. Clin. Microbiol. 28: 504-507 (1990)] which showed that hyperimmune serum to the KK-3 strain neutralized the B223 strain, a proposed type strain of G10. Further antigenic characteristics of the KK-3 strain, as well as the 0510 strain (a G6 strain isolated in Japan), were examined in terms of their VP4 (P) specificity. For the characterization of P types, we employed genetic reassortants that possess VP4 gene for UK and VP7 gene for D (G1), VP4 gene for NCDV and VP7 gene for SA11 (G3), or VP4 gene for SA11 and VP7 gene for NCDV (G6) in the plaque reduction neutralization assay with hyperimmune sera against these two Japanese strains and the prototype bovine rotavirus NCDV strain. While the 0510 strain had UK-like P and NCDV-like G types, the KK-3 strain had a distinct set of P and G types. Thus, at least three P types (NCDV-, UK-, and KK-3-like) and two G types (G6 and G10) are present among bovine rotavirus strains.
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- Y Matsuda
- Animal Facilities for Experimental Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan
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Brüssow H, Offit PA, Gerna G, Bruttin A, Sidoti J. Polypeptide specificity of antiviral serum antibodies in children naturally infected with human rotavirus. J Virol 1990; 64:4130-6. [PMID: 2166808 PMCID: PMC247876 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.9.4130-4136.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Reassortants between serotype 3 SA11 and serotype 6 NCDV rotaviruses were used to determine the relative amounts of serum-neutralizing antibody to VP4 and VP7 of serotype 3 SA11 rotavirus in children after natural rotavirus exposure. Sera from Ecuadorian children of a population-based study and sera from children of a hospital-based study in Germany (excluding diarrhea patients) demonstrated high titers of VP7-specific but only low titers of VP4-specific antibodies. In contrast, paired sera from German children hospitalized with a symptomatic primary rotavirus gastroenteritis demonstrated a titer increase to VP4 more frequently than to VP7 protein by neutralization test and immunoblotting. For these rotavirus patients, we provided, previously, direct evidence for the development of cross-neutralizing antibodies.
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- H Brüssow
- Nestlé Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
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The VP7 and VP4 genes of seven antigenic mutants of simian rotavirus SA11 4fM (serotype 3) selected after 39 passages in the presence of SA11 4fM hyperimmune antiserum, were sequenced. Nucleotide sequence analysis indicated the following. (i) Twice as many amino acid substitutions occurred in the VP7 protein than in VP4, which has a molecular weight twice that of VP7. (ii) Most amino acid changes that occurred clustered in six variable regions of VP7 and in two variable regions of VP4; these variable regions may represent immunodominant epitopes. (iii) Most amino acid substitutions that occurred in VP7 and VP4 of these mutants were also observed in antigenic mutants selected with neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (NMAbs); however, some amino acid substitutions occurred that were not selected for NMAbs. (iv) On VP7, some of the neutralization epitopes appeared to be interrelated because amino acid substitution in one site affected binding of specific NMAbs to other sites, while other neutralization epitopes on VP7 appeared to be independent, in that amino acid substitution in one site did not affect the binding of NMAbs to another distant site.
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- M Gorziglia
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Ward RL, Nakagomi O, Knowlton DR, McNeal MM, Nakagomi T, Clemens JD, Sack DA, Schiff GM. Evidence for natural reassortants of human rotaviruses belonging to different genogroups. J Virol 1990; 64:3219-25. [PMID: 1693701 PMCID: PMC249536 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.7.3219-3225.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Of 335 rotavirus isolates associated with diarrheal disease in Bangladesh that were culture adapted and subsequently characterized for electropherotype, subgroup, and serotype, 9 had properties that suggested they may be natural reassortants between human rotaviruses belonging to different "genogroups." Two of these were examined in greater detail by RNA-RNA hybridization with prototype strains representative of each of the three proposed human rotavirus genogroups. One subgroup II isolate, 248, with a "long" electrophoretic pattern was neutralized by hyperimmune antisera to both serotype 2 and 4 strains. Consistent with these results, seven RNA segments of this isolate formed hybrids with human strains belonging to the Wa genogroup and four segments hybridized with strains belonging to the DS-1 genogroup. The second isolate examined, 456, belonged to subgroup II and had a long electrophoretic pattern but was found to be a serotype 2 strain. This isolate also appeared to be an intergenogroup reassortant because three of its segments formed hybrids with strains belonging to the Wa genogroup and eight hybridized with viruses of the DS-1 genogroup. On the basis of the relative migration rates of these RNA-RNA hybrids during gel electrophoresis, a suggested origin for each gene segment was proposed which was consistent with the results expected from electrophoretic, subgroup, and serotypic analyses.
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- R L Ward
- Division of Clinical Virology, James N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
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Ward RL, Knowlton DR, Greenberg HB, Schiff GM, Bernstein DI. Serum-neutralizing antibody to VP4 and VP7 proteins in infants following vaccination with WC3 bovine rotavirus. J Virol 1990; 64:2687-91. [PMID: 2159538 PMCID: PMC249447 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.6.2687-2691.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Serum specimens from infants 2 to 12 months old vaccinated with the WC3 bovine rotavirus were analyzed to determine the relative concentrations of neutralizing antibody to the VP4 and VP7 proteins of the vaccine virus. To do this, reassortant rotaviruses that contained the WC3 genome segment for only one of these two neutralization proteins were made. The segment for the other neutralization protein in these reassortants was from heterotypic rotaviruses that were serotypically distinct from WC3. Sera were examined from 31 infants who had no evidence of a previous rotavirus infection and the highest postvaccination WC3-neutralizing antibody titers (i.e., 160 to 600) of the 103 subjects administered the vaccine. A reassortant (3/17) that contained both neutralization proteins from the heterotypic rotaviruses, i.e., EDIM (EW strain of mouse rotavirus) VP7 and rhesus rotavirus VP4, was not neutralized by these sera (geometric mean titer [GMT], less than 20). A reassortant (E19) that contained EDIM VP7 and WC3 VP4 was also very poorly neutralized by these antisera (GMT = 20). In contrast, antibody titers to a reassortant (R20) that contained WC3 VP7 and rhesus rotavirus VP4 were higher than those against WC3 (GMTs of 458 and 313, respectively). Thus, VP7 appeared to be the dominant immunogen for production of neutralizing antibody after intestinal infection of previously uninfected infants vaccinated with WC3 bovine rotavirus.
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- R L Ward
- James N. Gamble Institute of Medical Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
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Mackow ER, Vo PT, Broome R, Bass D, Greenberg HB. Immunization with baculovirus-expressed VP4 protein passively protects against simian and murine rotavirus challenge. J Virol 1990; 64:1698-703. [PMID: 2157052 PMCID: PMC249307 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.4.1698-1703.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A baculovirus-expressed VP4 protein derived from the simian rhesus rotavirus (RRV) was used to parenterally immunize murine dams. VP4-immunized dams developed high levels of neutralizing antibodies against RRV and low levels of cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies against human strains Wa, ST3, and S2 and animal strains SA-11, NCDV, and Eb. Newborn mice suckled on VP4-immunized dams were protected against a virulent challenge dose of the simian strain RRV and against murine rotavirus Eb. The cross-reactive nature of the serum-neutralizing response generated by VP4 immunization and the protective efficacy of the immunization suggest that recombinant-expressed VP4 proteins should be considered as viable vaccine candidates.
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- E R Mackow
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, California 94305
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