title: Identification of VP1 peptides diagnostic of encephalomyocarditis virus from swine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) can cause myocarditis, respiratory failure, reproductive failure, and sudden death in pre-weaned piglets, which has been isolated in China. EMCV VP1 protein was one of the most important structural proteins and played an important role in the protective immunity. In this study, 10 monoclonal antibodies (McAbs) against EMCV VP1 were screened and identified.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Epitope mapping results indicated that McAbs (6E11, 7A7, 7C9) specifically recognized the linear epitopes V(2)ENAEK(7), McAbs (1D1, 2A2, 5A1, 5A11, 5G1) recognized the epitope F(19)VAQPVY(25), and McAbs 1G8 and 3A9 recognized P(42)IGAFTVK(49). Protein sequence alignment of VP1 with 16 EMCV isolates indicated that the epitope F(19)VAQPVY(25) was conserved in all the reference strains. The epitopes P(42)IGAFTVK(49) and V(2)ENAEK(7) only had 1 or 2 variable amino acid among the reference strains. The 3D model analysis results showed that these epitopes presented as spheres were shown within the context of the complete particle.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this study, ten McAbs against EMCV VP1 were developed and three B-cells epitopes (2-7aa, 19-25aa and 42-49aa) were defined in VP1. All the results herein will promote the future investigations into the function of VP1 of EMCV and development of diagnostic methods of EMCV.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. baijuan@njau.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. cxh.cxh@163.com.
authors.forename: Xinhui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. jiangkangfu@126.com.
authors.forename: Kangfu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. drbasitqazi@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Basit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zeshan
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. jiangp@njau.edu.cn.|Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, China. jiangp@njau.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000276:immunology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000276:immunology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018188:Cardiovirus Infections / Q000821:virology; D002681:China; D004686:Encephalomyocarditis virus / Q000276:immunology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018604:Epitope Mapping; D018985:Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte / Q000276:immunology*; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000956:Antigens, Viral; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D018985:Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte; C096256:VP1 protein, encephalomyocarditis virus