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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-9-18
pubmed:abstractText
Neutralization escape variants of Murray Valley encephalitis virus were selected using a type-specific, neutralizing, and passively protective anti-envelope protein (E) monoclonal antibody (4B6C-2) which defines epitope E-1c. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed single nucleotide changes in the E genes of 15 variants resulting in nonconservative amino acid substitutions in all cases. One variant had a three-nucleotide deletion in the E gene which resulted in loss of serine at residue 277. Changes were clustered into two separate regions of the E polypeptide (residues 126-128 and 274-277), indicating that E-1c is a discontinuous epitope. One variant (BHv1), altered at residue 277 (Ser-->Ile), failed to hemagglutinate across the pH range 5.5-7.5, in contrast to parental virus and the other escape variants which hemagglutinated at an optimal pH of 6.6. BHv1 was also of reduced neuroinvasiveness in 21-day-old mice following intraperitoneal inoculation compared to the other viruses. Parental virus and the neutralization escape variants grew equally well in both vertebrate and invertebrate cell cultures, indicating that the reduced neuroinvasiveness of BHv1 was not due to a major abnormality of replication.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0042-6822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
211
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
10-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Codon, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Encephalitis, Arbovirus, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Erythrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Geese, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Hemagglutination Tests, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Hemagglutinins, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Point Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Sequence Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Vero Cells, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Viral Plaque Assay, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Virulence, pubmed-meshheading:7645203-Virus Replication
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Murray valley encephalitis virus envelope protein antigenic variants with altered hemagglutination properties and reduced neuroinvasiveness in mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't