Journal
VIRUS GENES
Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 25-32Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11262-017-1508-1
Keywords
Dengue virus; Flavivirus; Focus-forming units; Anti-peptide antibody; Sequence motif; Focus reduction neutralization test
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- Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, Bioinformatics Division, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi [BT/BI/25/017/2012]
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Dengue virus (DENV) is an arthropod-borne human pathogen that represents a severe public health threat in both endemic and non-endemic regions. So far, there is no licensed vaccine or specific drugs available for dengue fever. A fifteen-amino-acid-long peptide that includes the NGR motif was chemically synthesized and conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin. A standard immunization protocol was followed for the production of polyclonal antibodies by immunizing rabbits against the synthetic peptide. The immune response elicited high-titer polyclonal antibodies with the reactivity of the anti-peptide antibody against both synthetic peptide and four serotypes of DENV confirmed by DOT-ELISA. Neutralizing activity of anti-peptide antibody was found to be cross-reactive and effective resulting in 60% reduction of infectivity at 1:200 dilution in all four serotypes of DENV. Our findings have the potential to further improve our understanding of virus-host interactions and provide new insights into neutralizing antibodies and could also be used as a drug target.
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