Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (1): 414-422.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2026.01.036

• PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Establishment and Application of Indirect ELISA Method based on RHDV RdRp Protein

ZHU Wei1,2,3,4(), QIU Rulong2,3,4(), CHEN Mengmeng2,3,4, HU Bo2,3,4, WEI Houjun2,3,4, FAN Zhiyu2,3,4, GE Lei2,3,4, WU Mengting2,3,4, SONG Yanhua1,2,3,4(), WANG Fang1,2,3,4()   

  1. 1.College of Veterinary Medicine,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China
    2.Institute of Veterinary Medicine,Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Nanjing 210014,China
    3.Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biological Products Engineering,Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs,Nanjing 210014,China
    4.Veterinary Biological Products (Taizhou) Guotai Technology Innovation Center,Taizhou 225300,China
  • Received:2024-09-25 Online:2026-01-23 Published:2026-01-26
  • Contact: SONG Yanhua, WANG Fang E-mail:1276306080@qq.com;307821498@qq.com;songyanhua8507@126.com;rwangfang@126.com

Abstract:

To establish a diagnostic ELISA method for distinguishing RHDV infection and vaccination, the RdRp proteins of RHDV1 and RHDV2 were expressed by prokaryotic expression system. And these two soluble RdRp proteins were successfully purified. RdRp protein was used as coated antigen, an indirect ELISA method was established to detect serum antibody against RdRp. After purification and restriction enzyme digestion, the RdRp protein without tag was obtained with a size of 57 ku. Western blot analysis confirmed that both RdRp proteins reacted specifically with RHDV1 or RHDV2 infection sera. And there was no difference between the types of RdRp proteins. So RHDV2-RdRp was selected as a coating antigen at a coating concentration of 2.5 μg·mL-1. The optimal serum dilution was 1∶100 and the incubation was 60 min at 37 ℃. The optimal dilution of enzyme-labeled antibody was 1∶10 000. The cut-off value was 0.225. It was proved that the ELISA method has good specificity and sensitivity. The coefficient of variation in both intra-batch and inter-batch repeatability test was less than 10%, which indicating a good stability. The samples after RHDV challenge and the serum samples after genetic engineering vaccine immunization were tested, and the results showed that RHDV infection can induce the production of serum antibodies against RdRp protein, but the serum tests after genetic engineering vaccine immunization were negative. In this study, the ELISA method based on RHDV-RdRp protein can distinguish between genetic engineering vaccine immunity and RHDV infection, which provides an effective detection method for clinical screening of RHDV infection.

Key words: RHDV, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), indirect ELISA

CLC Number: