title: Neutralizing epitope on penetration protein of vaccinia virus.
abstract: The monoclonal antibody 2D5 neutralized vaccinia virus by preventing penetration of the virus and reacting with VP23-29K. The conformation of the VP23-29K was maintained by a disulfide bond(s), and the 2D5mAb reacted stronger with the nonreduced 23-kDa form than with the reduced 29-kDa form. We selected several escape mutants. Sequences of the A17L genes, which were thought to encode the VP23-29K, did not show cognate mutation. Genomic DNA of a 2D5mAb-resistant mutant (M4) was cleaved with HindIII, and all the fragments were introduced into parental IHD-J strain vaccinia virus by transfection. Only the L fragment produced a 2D5mAb-resistant virus. Dissection of the L fragment and subsequent transfection revealed that the L1R gene induced the 2D5mAb-resistant virus. The 2D5mAb-resistant mutants showed a consensus G to A conversion at nucleotide 101 of their LIRs which would replace asparatic acid 35 with asparagine. Ishibashi-111 strain mousepox virus spontaneously resistant to 2D5mAb also had the same sequence at this region. Moreover, the VP23-29K was myristoylated as predicted by the L1R gene. The coding gene of the VP23-29K was L1R.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Niigata University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ichihashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oie
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D004279:DNA, Viral; D018604:Epitope Mapping; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D014616:Vaccinia virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D014709:Vero Cells; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: C081257:A17L protein, Vaccinia virus; D004279:DNA, Viral; C087715:L1R protein, Vaccinia virus; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins