ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2016, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (1): 141-148.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2016.01.019

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Neutralizing Activity Analysis of VP3 Antiserums and B-cell Epitopes Identification of VP3 Protein form Duck Hepatitis A Virus Type 1

SHEN You-lin1,2,3 ,WANG Ming-shu1,2,3* ,CHENG An-chun1,2,3,JIA Ren-yong1,2,3,ZHU De-kang1,3,CHEN Shun1,2,3,LIU Ma-feng1,2,3,LIU Fei3,YANG Qiao1,2,3,SUN Kun-feng1,2,3,CHEN Xiao-yue1,3   

  1. (1.Avian Disease Research Center,College of Veterinary Medicine,Sichuan Agricultural University,Chengdu 611130,China;2.Preventive Veterinary Institute,Sichuan Agricultural University,Chengdu 611130,China;3.Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province,Chengdu 611130,China)
  • Received:2015-04-24 Online:2016-01-23 Published:2016-01-23

Abstract:

This study aimed at researching neutralizing activity of VP3 antiserums and determining B-cell epitopes of VP3 protein from duck hepatitis A virus type 1(DHAV-1).The pGEX-4T-1 expression plasmid was used to express VP3 gene of DHAV-1 in E.coli BL21(DE3).The expressed recombinant VP3 protein was purified by gel extraction and was used as immunogen to rabbit to prepare polyclonal antibodies.Chicken embryo neutralization test was conducted to detect the neutralizing titer of polyclonal antibodies.Moreover,Karplus&Schulz,Emini,Jameson-Wolf and Parker method were used to analyze the flexibility,surface accessibility,antigenicity and hydrophilicity of the VP3 protein,respectively.This contributed to obtain four probable B-cell epitopes for VP3 protein.The rabbit anti-VP3 polyclonal antibody was used as the first antibody of indirect ELISA to identity the synthetic peptides.Furthermore,a panel of clinical duck serum samples was used to evaluate capacity of the identified B-cell epitopes for antibodies detection.The results showed that the recombinant VP3 protein was expressed as inclusion body in E.coli BL21(DE3) with a molecular weight about 54 kD,and proved to be with good reactogenicity by Western blot analysis.The prepared polyclonal antibodies reached an titer of 1∶16 by AGP test,it could neutralize DHAV-1 and reached a titer of 1∶39.Furthermore,the B-cell epitopes identified by indirect ELISA were GKRKPCRRPIHKPKNPPQEP(1-20 aa),FNTGRYQMSWYPIADGEQSL(131-150 aa) and VNSSAPSNID(200-209 aa).The test for antibody detection ability revealed the epitopes were capable of detecting clinical duck antiserums of DHAV-1.This study proved antiserums to VP3 protein of DHAV-1 with neutralizing activity and identified VP3’s three promising B-cell epitopes,1-20 aa,131-150 aa and 200-209 aa,for clinical use.

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