Characterization of monoclonal antibodies against hantavirus nucleocapsid protein and their use for immunohistochemistry on rodent and human samples

Kucinskaite-Kodze, Indre; Petraityte-Burneikiene, Rasa; Zvirbliene, Aurelija; Hjelle, Brian; Medina, Rafael A.; Gedvilaite, Alma; Razanskiene, Ausra; Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas; Mertens, Marc; Padula, Paula; Sasnauskas, Kestutis; Ulrich, Rainer G.

Abstract

Monoclonal antibodies are important tools for various applications in hantavirus diagnostics. Recently, we generated Puumala virus (PUUV)-reactive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by immunisation of mice with chimeric polyomavirus-derived virus-like particles (VLPs) harbouring the 120-amino-acid-long amino-terminal region of the PUUV nucleocapsid (N) protein. Here, we describe the generation of two mAbs by co-immunisation of mice with hexahistidine-tagged full-length N proteins of Sin Nombre virus (SNV) and Andes virus (ANDV), their characterization by different immunoassays and comparison with the previously generated mAbs raised against a segment of PUUV N protein inserted into VLPs. All of the mAbs reacted strongly in ELISA and western blot tests with the antigens used for immunization and cross-reacted to varying extents with N proteins of other hantaviruses. All mAbs raised against a segment of the PUUV N protein presented on chimeric VLPs and both mAbs raised against the full-length AND/SNV N protein reacted with Vero cells infected with different hantaviruses. The reactivity of mAbs with native viral nucleocapsids was also confirmed by their reactivity in immunohistochemistry assays with kidney tissue specimens from experimentally SNV-infected rodents and human heart tissue specimens from hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome patients. Therefore, the described mAbs represent useful tools for the immunodetection of hantavirus infection.

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Título según WOS: ID WOS:000287749100009 Not found in local WOS DB
Título de la Revista: ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volumen: 156
Número: 3
Editorial: SPRINGER WIEN
Fecha de publicación: 2011
Página de inicio: 443
Página final: 456
DOI:

10.1007/s00705-010-0879-6

Notas: ISI