title: Antibodies raised in a natural host and monoclonal antibodies recognize similar antigenic features of foot-and-mouth disease virus.
abstract: Swine polyclonal antibodies directed against a major antigenic site (site A) of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) of serotype C, and monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) which recognize different epitopes within this site, have been compared with regard to reactivity with a panel of synthetic peptides. The peptides used represent different segments or variant sequences of site A, and their reactivities reflect differences in antigenic specificity. The results indicate a remarkable immunochemical similarity between the site A epitopes defined by murine MAbs and those recognized by antibodies elicited in a natural host of FMDV. This similarity further validates previous conclusions, based on analyses with MAbs, on the relevance of amino acid substitutions at a few critical positions on the intratypic antigenic variation of FMDV in the field. They also give further support to a dual function of the Arg-Gly-Asp motif of the G-H loop in cell attachment and in the recognition by host antibodies, as recently documented with the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of an antigen-antibody complex of FMDV. In addition, the results encourage the use of extended panels of well-characterized MAbs for a precise molecular analysis of the antigenic variation of FMDV, and of other viruses, in the field.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Biología Molecular, Severo Ochoa, (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mateu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Andreu
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domingo
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000937:Antigen-Antibody Reactions; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D005537:Aphthovirus / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology*; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D051379:Mice / Q000276:immunology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012703:Serotyping; D013552:Swine / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000956:Antigens, Viral; D010455:Peptides