title: An anti-HIV-1 gag protein rat monoclonal antibody library.
abstract: A set of 18 rat monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) directed against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gag proteins was derived from 4 independent fusion protocols. The epitopes recognized were delineated using a random fragment expression library representing the whole HIV-1IIIB genome. This panel of rat MAbs was used to analyze the antigenicities of the HIV-1 CAp24 major core protein and the HIV-1 NCp7 nucleocapsid protein. As a result, a limited set of antigenic domains as defined, 3 on CAp24 between amino acids (aa) 195 and 268, 323 and 329, 329 and 352, and one on NCp7 (aa 382-392). Only 4 mouse anti-CAp24 MAbs appeared to recognize the COOH-terminal domain (aa 329-352) defined by the majority of our MAbs. The rat anti-CAp24 (Q1B10) and the rat anti-NCp7 (I5B11) MAbs described here, defined two newly described epitopes, aa 323-329 and aa 382-392.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Virologie Fondamentale, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bodéus
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heusterspreute
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Benarous
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bazin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Burtonboy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D001483:Base Sequence; D002213:Capsid / Q000276:immunology*; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D018604:Epitope Mapping / Q000379:methods; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology; D015723:Gene Library; D015683:Gene Products, gag / Q000276:immunology*; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D016655:HIV Core Protein p24 / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D051381:Rats; D014764:Viral Proteins; D054301:gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D000939:Epitopes; D015683:Gene Products, gag; D015483:HIV Antibodies; D016655:HIV Core Protein p24; C071884:NCP7 protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1; D014764:Viral Proteins; D054301:gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus