title: Glycoprotein G of herpes simplex virus type 1: identification of type-specific epitopes by human antibodies.
abstract: Serological diagnosis of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections requires assays based on antigens that expose type-specific determinants. This study was designed to outline the B-cell epitopes of the type-specific glycoprotein G-1 (gG-1) of HSV type 1 (HSV-1), by investigating the reactivity of human anti-gG-1 antibodies, purified from 21 HSV-1-isolation-proven patient sera, to cellulose-bound synthetic peptides spanning the entire gG-1 sequence. The epitope mapping demonstrated that these antibodies bound preferentially to antigenic determinants that localized to regions with a high degree of amino acid similarity to the corresponding glycoprotein in HSV-2, gG-2. In spite of this, the purified anti-gG-1 antibodies were found to be non-reactive to native gG-2 antigen, as well as to overlapping gG-2 peptides, thus supporting the role of gG-1 as a prototype HSV-1 type-specific antigen. One immunodominant region, delimited by amino acids 112-127, reacted with all purified anti-gG-1 antibodies and may be of interest for the further development of a peptide-based HSV-1 type-specific seroassay.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Clinical Virology and Dermatovenereology, Göteborg University, Guldhedsgatan 10 B, S-413 46, Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tunbäck
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Liljeqvist
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Löwhagen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bergström
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D018604:Epitope Mapping; D000939:Epitopes / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D000956:Antigens, Viral; D000939:Epitopes; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C050591:glycoprotein gG-1, herpes simplex virus type 1