title: [Antigenicity of nine synthetic peptides of human immunodeficiency virus].
abstract: To establish a ELISA method to detect the infection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we synthesized nine peptides ranging in length between 10-27 amino acid (aa) of HIV located in the regions of gp41, p24 of HIV-1 and gp36 of HIV-2, according to the published amino acid sequence and the position of antigenic determinants of viruses, by a solid-phase method. We detected 10 positive sera of HIV-1 and 4 positive sera of HIV-2 by a indirect ELISA using these synthetic peptides as the coating antigen. The results indicated that all of 10 serum specimens of HIV-1 were positive using SP1, 5, 6, and 7 derived from gp41, and SP7 was the best in antigenicity. The 4 serum specimens of HIV-2 were positive using SP8 and SP9 in the region of gp36 and their antigenicity to HIV-2 were similar, but the antigenicity of SP8 to HIV-1 was higher than that of SP9. All sera of HIV-1 and HIV-2 were positive using SP7 and SP8 as the mixed coating antigen. A comparison of our reagent with UBI reagent in detection of 60 positive and 96 negative control sera for HIV showed that the coincident rate for positive ness was 98.33% (59/60), for negative ness was 100%, and the general coincident rate was 99.36% (155/156). It is concluded that SP7 and SP8 as the mixed coating antigen are applicable in the diagnosis of HIV infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hong
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology*; D000915:Antibody Affinity; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D000939:Epitopes; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000276:immunology*; D015498:HIV-2 / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007106:Immune Sera / Q000032:analysis*; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000939:Epitopes; D007106:Immune Sera; D010455:Peptides