Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (5): 2050-2060.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.05.023

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Eukaryotic Expression of Bovine Coronavirus S1 Protein and Establishment and Application of Indirect ELISA

HUANG Jin1,2, LI Siyuan1,6, MAO Li1,2, CAI Xuhang1,6, XIE Lingling4, WANG Fu4, ZHOU Hua5, LI Jizong1,2,3*, LI Bin1,2,3*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Engineering and Technology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China;
    2. College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China;
    3. School of Food and Biological Engineering/School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China;
    4. Guizhou Testing Center for Livestock and Poultry Germplasm, Guiyang 550018, China;
    5. Qianxi Animal Disease Control Center, Qianxi 551500, China;
    6. College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
  • Received:2023-07-10 Online:2024-05-23 Published:2024-05-27

Abstract: In order to establish a specific indirect ELISA method that can replace the detection of neutralizing antibodies against bovine coronavirus (BCoV), the recombinant S1 protein of BCoV was prepared by expression of insect baculovirus expression system. The purified recombinant S1 protein was used as coating antigen to establish an indirect ELISA method for detection of BCoV S1 protein antibody. The results showed that the recombinant S1 protein was about 100 ku and could be expressed in the supernatant of insect High5 cell culture medium, and the antigenicity of S1 protein was identified by Western blot. After the reaction conditions were optimized, the antigen coating concentration was 0.125 μg·mL-1, and the dilution of serum was 1∶200. The type of sealant is 1% gelatin and the sealing time is 3 h at 37 ℃. The action time of serum is incubating 30 min at 37 ℃. The dilution of enzyme-labeled second antibody was 1∶25 000, and the time was incubated at 37 ℃ for 45 min. The time for substrate coloration was 13 min at 37 ℃. The critical value was 0.297. This method had a good specificity, the maximum coefficients of variation of inter-assay and intra-assay repeatability tests were less than 10%. Taking IFA as the standard, the results showed that when the critical value OD450 nm was 0.297, the sensitivity of IFA was 96.88% (31/32) and the specificity was 87.50% (7/8), which was highly consistent with the serum neutralization test (κ=0.844, P<0.01). Taking the neutralization test as the standard, the results showed that when the critical value OD450 nm was 0.297, the sensitivity of ELISA was 100.00% (31/31) and the specificity was 88.89% (8/9), which was highly consistent with the serum neutralization test (κ=0.925, P<0.01). Three hundred and three samples of bovine serum were detected by this method, and the positive rate was 74.91%. Therefore, the established ELISA method has strong specificity, high sensitivity and good repeatability, which can be used as an alternative to neutralization test to detect BCoV antibody levels after immunization.

Key words: bovine coronavirus, insect baculovirus expression system, S1 protein, indirect ELISA

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