title: Domestic cat microsphere immunoassays: detection of antibodies during feline immunodeficiency virus infection.
abstract: Microsphere immunoassays (MIAs) allow rapid and accurate evaluation of multiple analytes simultaneously within a biological sample. Here we describe the development and validation of domestic cat-specific MIAs for a) the quantification of total IgG and IgA levels in plasma, and b) the detection of IgG and IgA antibodies to feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) capsid (CA) and surface (SU) proteins, and feline CD134 in plasma. These assays were used to examine the temporal antibody response of domestic cats infected with apathogenic and pathogenic FIVs, and domestic cats infected with parental and chimeric FIVs of varying pathogenicity. The results from these studies demonstrated that a) total IgG antibodies increase over time after infection; b) α-CA and α-SU IgG antibodies are detectable between 9 and 28 days post-infection and increase over time, and these antibodies combined represent a fraction (1.8 to 21.8%) of the total IgG increase due to infection; c) measurable α-CD134 IgG antibody levels vary among individuals and over time, and are not strongly correlated with viral load; d) circulating IgA antibodies, in general, do not increase during the early stage of infection; and e) total IgG, and α-CA and α-SU IgG antibody kinetics and levels vary with FIV viral strain/pathogenicity. The MIAs described here could be used to screen domestic cats for FIV infection, and to evaluate the FIV-specific or total antibody response elicited by various FIV strains/other diseases.
authors: Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States.
authors: Britta A
authors: BA
authors: Wood
authors: Scott
authors: S
authors: Carver
authors: Ryan M
authors: RM
authors: Troyer
authors: John H
authors: JH
authors: Elder
authors: Sue
authors: S
authors: VandeWoude
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000276:immunology; D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D002415:Cats; D016181:Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology*; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000379:methods; D016089:Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline / Q000276:immunology*; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000097:blood; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D008863:Microspheres; D053262:Receptors, OX40 / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology; D019562:Viral Load
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D053262:Receptors, OX40
keywords: Antibody detection; Domestic cat; Feline immunodeficiency virus; Microsphere immunoassay; Multiplexing
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