Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (11): 5211-5221.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.11.036

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Screening and Identification of the Antigenic Epitope of Pig Neutralizing Antibodies against Foot-and-mouth Disease Virus Serotype Asia 1

Kaiheng DONG1(), Shulun HUANG2,3, Fengjuan LI2,3, Kun LI2,3, Guo LIU1, Qiang ZHANG2,3, Huifang BAO2,3, Hongxuan LI2,3, Zengjun LU2,3,*(), Xiaoli ZHANG1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
    2. State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, National Foot-and-Mouth Diseases Reference Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
    3. Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou 730046, China
  • Received:2024-01-17 Online:2024-11-23 Published:2024-11-30
  • Contact: Zengjun LU, Xiaoli ZHANG E-mail:1593853715@qq.com;luzengjun@caas.cn;zhxl228@qq.com

Abstract:

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotype Asia 1 is still circulating in Asia countries around China, which will be a long-term threat to animal husbandry. The aim of this study was to screen porcine monoclonal neutralizing antibodies against Asia1 FMDV using single B-cell antibody technology, and to identify the antigenic sites recognized by neutralizing antibodies. FMDV Asia1/JS/05 inactivated whole virus particles were used as the bait antigen to sort antigen-specific B cells in PBMCs of immunized porcine by flow cytometry. The sequences of variable regions of the heavy and light chain of the IgG were amplified by nested PCR. The expression plasmids of the IgG heavy and light chain were constructed respectively and co-transfected into CHO-S cells to express the whole IgG antibodies. The reactivity and neutralization ability of expressed antibodies were verified by indirect ELISA, indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA) and viral neutralizing test (VNT). The epitopes as well as the critical amino acids recognized by the neutralized antibody were identified using Western blot and neutralizing antibody escape mutants screening. Five Asia 1 FMDV-specific antibodies were obtained, of which PD3 and PD7 showed neutralizing ability. These two neutralizing antibodies recognized the same epitope and the key amino acids residue was D 72 of the VP2 protein. In this study, neutralizing antibody against Asia 1 FMDV from pig were obtained for the first time, which provides further information of the protective antigen sites of Asia1 FMDV, and make a basis for the design of molecular vaccine and the development of new tools for diagnosis of FMD Asia 1.

Key words: foot-and-mouth disease virus, serotype Asia 1, porcine monoclonal antibody, antigenic epitope

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