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  • Title: A virus-neutralizing epitope on the glycoprotein of rabies virus that contains Trp251 is a linear epitope.
    Author: Luo TR, Minamoto N, Ito H, Goto H, Hiraga S, Ito N, Sugiyama M, Kinjo T.
    Journal: Virus Res; 1997 Sep; 51(1):35-41. PubMed ID: 9381793.
    Abstract:
    We have established a hybridoma producing monoclonal antibody (MAb) against a linear epitope of glycoprotein (G protein) of the RC-HL strain of rabies virus. This MAb15-13 showed almost the same neutralizing activity to all of five rabies fixed strains, including RC-HL, and reacted to the denatured G protein in western blot analysis. To characterize and map this linear epitope, an antigenic variant NR15-13 was selected from RC-HL strain in the presence of neutralizing MAb15-13. The variant reacted with MAb15-13 in an immunofluorescent antibody test but was not neutralized by the antibody and the antibody did not bind to the variant G protein in a Western blot analysis. The variant NR15-13 had an amino acid substitution at position 251 of the G protein, where tryptophan of the parental RC-HL strain was replaced by arginine. Site-directed mutagenesis analysis using the expression system in simian COS7 cells revealed that a single amino acid substitution at 251-tryptophan by arginine on the G protein of the parental RC-HL strain abolished the antigenicity of the epitope for MAb15-13 in western blot analysis, and the replacement of 251-arginine by tryptophan recovered the activity. These results strongly suggest that tryptophan at position 251 on the G protein is essential for construction of the linear epitope against MAb15-13.
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