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Journal of Virology, November 2001, p. 11116-11127, Vol. 75, No. 22
Laboratory of Persistent Viral
Diseases,1 Rocky Mountain Microscopy
Branch,2 Rocky Mountain Laboratories,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton,
Montana 59840, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Center for Structural Biology, The Brain Institute,
College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
326103
Received 28 March 2001/Accepted 30 July 2001
Aleutian mink disease parvovirus (ADV) causes a persistent
infection associated with circulating immune complexes, immune complex
disease, hypergammaglobulinemia, and high levels of antiviral antibody.
Although antibody can neutralize ADV infectivity in Crandell feline
kidney cells in vitro, virus is not cleared in vivo, and capsid-based
vaccines have proven uniformly ineffective. Antiviral antibody also
enables ADV to infect macrophages, the target cells for persistent
infection, by Fc-receptor-mediated antibody-dependent enhancement
(ADE). The antibodies involved in these unique aspects of ADV
pathogenesis may have specific targets on the ADV capsid. Prominent
differences exist between the structure of ADV and other, more-typical
parvoviruses, which can be accounted for by short peptide sequences in
the flexible loop regions of the capsid proteins. In order to determine
whether these short sequences are targets for antibodies involved in
ADV pathogenesis, we studied heterologous antibodies against several peptides present in the major capsid protein, VP2. Of these antibodies, a polyclonal rabbit antibody to peptide VP2:428-446 was the most interesting. The anti-VP2:428-446 antibody aggregated virus particles into immune complexes, mediated ADE, and neutralized virus infectivity in vitro. Thus, antibody against this short peptide can be implicated in key facets of ADV pathogenesis. Structural modeling suggested that
surface-exposed residues of VP2:428-446 are readily accessible for
antibody binding. The observation that antibodies against a single
target peptide in the ADV capsid can mediate both neutralization and
ADE may explain the failure of capsid-based vaccines.
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.22.11116-11127.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Identification of Aleutian Mink Disease Parvovirus
Capsid Sequences Mediating Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of
Infection, Virus Neutralization, and Immune Complex Formation
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of
Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, MT 59840. Phone: (406) 363-9275. Fax: (406) 363-9286. E-mail:
mbloom{at}niaid.nih.gov.
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