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Avižinienė A, Kučinskaitė-Kodzė I, Petraitytė-Burneikienė R, Žvirblienė A, Mertens ML, Schmidt S, Schlegel M, Lattwein E, Koellner B, Ulrich RG. Characterization of a Panel of Cross-Reactive Hantavirus Nucleocapsid Protein-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies. Viruses 2023; 15. [PMID: 36851747 DOI: 10.3390/v15020532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Hantaviruses are emerging pathogens with a worldwide distribution that can cause life-threatening diseases in humans. Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against hantavirus nucleocapsid (N) proteins are important tools in virus diagnostics, epidemiological studies and basic research studies on virus replication and pathogenesis. Here, we extend the collection of previously generated MAbs raised against a segment of Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) N protein harbored on virus-like particles (VLPs) and MAbs against N proteins of Sin Nombre orthohantavirus/Andes orthohantavirus by generating nine novel MAbs against N proteins of Dobrava-Belgrade orthohantavirus (DOBV), Tula orthohantavirus (TULV), Thottapalayam thottimvirus (TPMV) and PUUV. In order to have a wide collection of well-described hantavirus-specific MAbs, the cross-reactivity of novel and previously generated MAbs was determined against N proteins of 15 rodent- and shrew-borne hantaviruses by different immunological methods. We found that all MAbs, excluding TPMV-specific MAbs, demonstrated different cross-reactivity patterns with N proteins of hantaviruses and recognized native viral antigens in infected mammalian cells. This well-characterized collection of cross-reactive hantavirus-specific MAbs has a potential application in various fields of hantavirus research, diagnostics and therapy.
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Tamiya K, Kobayashi S, Yoshii K, Kariwa H. Analysis of the relationship between replication of the Hokkaido genotype of Puumala orthohantavirus and autophagy. Virus Res 2022; 318:198830. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.198830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Wei Z, Shimizu K, Nishigami K, Tsuda Y, Sarathukumara Y, Muthusinghe DS, Gamage CD, Granathne L, Lokupathirage SMW, Nanayakkara N, Arikawa J, Kikuchi F, Tanaka-Taya K, Suzuki M, Morikawa S, Arai S, Yoshimatsu K. Serological methods for detection of infection with shrew-borne hantaviruses: Thottapalayam, Seewis, Altai, and Asama viruses. Arch Virol 2020; 166:275-280. [PMID: 33201342 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04873-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The infectivity of shrew-borne hantaviruses to humans is still unclear because of the lack of a serodiagnosis method for these viruses. In this study, we prepared recombinant nucleocapsid (rN) proteins of Seewis orthohantavirus, Altai orthohantavirus (ALTV), Thottapalayam thottimvirus (TPMV), and Asama orthohantavirus. Using monospecific rabbit sera, no antigenic cross-reactivity was observed. In a serosurvey of 104 samples from renal patients and 271 samples from heathy controls from Sri Lanka, one patient serum and two healthy control sera reacted with rN proteins of ALTV and TPMV, respectively. The novel assays should be applied to investigate potential infectivity of shrew-borne hantaviruses to humans.
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- Zhouoxing Wei
- Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka
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- Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka
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- Girandrukotte District Hospital, Renal Clinic, District Hospital, Girandurukotte, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Diseases of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan.
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan.
- Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-15, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0815, Japan.
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Yoshimatsu K, Arikawa J. Antigenic properties of N protein of hantavirus. Viruses 2014; 6:3097-109. [PMID: 25123683 DOI: 10.3390/v6083097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2014] [Revised: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Hantavirus causes two important rodent-borne viral zoonoses, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in North and South America. Twenty-four species that represent sero- and genotypes have been registered within the genus Hantavirus by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Among the viral proteins, nucleocapsid (N) protein possesses an immunodominant antigen. The antigenicitiy of N protein is conserved compared with that of envelope glycoproteins. Therefore, N protein has been used for serological diagnoses and seroepidemiological studies. An understanding of the antigenic properties of N protein is important for the interpretation of results from serological tests using N antigen. N protein consists of about 430 amino acids and possesses various epitopes. The N-terminal quarter of N protein bears linear and immunodominant epitopes. However, a serotype-specific and multimerization-dependent antigenic site was found in the C-terminal half of N protein. In this paper, the structure, function, and antigenicity of N protein are reviewed.
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Amada T, Yoshimatsu K, Koma T, Shimizu K, Gamage CD, Shiokawa K, Nishio S, Ahlm C, Arikawa J. Development of an immunochromatography strip test based on truncated nucleocapsid antigens of three representative hantaviruses. Virol J 2014; 11:87. [PMID: 24885901 PMCID: PMC4047433 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-11-87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Hantaviruses are causative agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and nephropathia epidemica (NE) in the Old World and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the New World. There is a need for time-saving diagnostic methods. In the present study, recombinant N antigens were used as antigens in an immunochromatography strip (ICG) test to detect specific IgG antibodies. METHODS The N-terminal 103 amino acids (aa) of Hantaan virus (HTNV), Puumala virus (PUUV) and Andes virus (ANDV) nucleocapsid (N) protein were expressed in E. coli as representative antigens of three groups (HFRS, NE and HPS-causing viruses) of hantavirus. Five different types of ICG test strips, one antigen line on one strip for each of the three selected hantaviruses (HTNV, PUUV and ANDV), three antigen lines on one strip and a mixed antigen line on one strip, were developed and sensitivities were compared. RESULTS A total of 87 convalescent-phase patient sera, including sera from 35 HFRS patients, 36 NE patients and 16 HPS patients, and 25 sera from healthy seronegative people as negative controls were used to evaluate the ICG test. Sensitivities of the three-line strip and mixed-line strip were similar to those of the single antigen strip (97.2 to 100%). On the other hand, all of the ICG test strips showed high specificities to healthy donors. CONCLUSION These results indicated that the ICG test with the three representative antigens is an effective serodiagnostic tool for screening and typing of hantavirus infection in humans.
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- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita ku, Sapporo 060-8683, Japan.
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Koma T, Yoshimatsu K, Taruishi M, Miyashita D, Endo R, Shimizu K, Yasuda SP, Amada T, Seto T, Murata R, Yoshida H, Kariwa H, Takashima I, Arikawa J. Development of a serotyping enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay system based on recombinant truncated hantavirus nucleocapsid proteins for New World hantavirus infection. J Virol Methods 2012; 185:74-81. [PMID: 22722226 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2012] [Revised: 06/01/2012] [Accepted: 06/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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New World hantaviruses were divided into five groups based on the amino acid sequence variability of the internal variable region (around 230-302 amino acids) of hantavirus nucleocapsid protein (NP). Sin Nombre virus (SNV), Andes virus, Black Creek Canal virus (BCCV), Carrizal virus (CARV) and Cano Delgadito virus belong to groups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. Patient and rodent sera were serotyped successfully by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with recombinant truncated NP lacking 99 N-terminal amino acids (trNP100) of SNV, CARV and BCCV. The trNP100 of BCCV showed lower reactivity to heterologous sera. In contrast, whole recombinant NP antigens detected both homologous and heterologous antibodies equally. The results together with results of a previous study suggest that trNP100 can distinguish infections among viruses in groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 of New World hantaviruses. The serotyping ELISA with trNP100 is useful for epidemiological surveillance in humans and rodents.
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- Takaaki Koma
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Kita-15, Nishi-7, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan
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Kucinskaite-Kodze I, Petraityte-Burneikiene R, Zvirbliene A, Hjelle B, Medina RA, Gedvilaite A, Razanskiene A, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Mertens M, Padula P, Sasnauskas K, Ulrich RG. Characterization of monoclonal antibodies against hantavirus nucleocapsid protein and their use for immunohistochemistry on rodent and human samples. Arch Virol 2011; 156:443-56. [PMID: 21161552 PMCID: PMC8628251 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-010-0879-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2010] [Accepted: 11/26/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Monoclonal antibodies are important tools for various applications in hantavirus diagnostics. Recently, we generated Puumala virus (PUUV)-reactive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by immunisation of mice with chimeric polyomavirus-derived virus-like particles (VLPs) harbouring the 120-amino-acid-long amino-terminal region of the PUUV nucleocapsid (N) protein. Here, we describe the generation of two mAbs by co-immunisation of mice with hexahistidine-tagged full-length N proteins of Sin Nombre virus (SNV) and Andes virus (ANDV), their characterization by different immunoassays and comparison with the previously generated mAbs raised against a segment of PUUV N protein inserted into VLPs. All of the mAbs reacted strongly in ELISA and western blot tests with the antigens used for immunization and cross-reacted to varying extents with N proteins of other hantaviruses. All mAbs raised against a segment of the PUUV N protein presented on chimeric VLPs and both mAbs raised against the full-length AND/SNV N protein reacted with Vero cells infected with different hantaviruses. The reactivity of mAbs with native viral nucleocapsids was also confirmed by their reactivity in immunohistochemistry assays with kidney tissue specimens from experimentally SNV-infected rodents and human heart tissue specimens from hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome patients. Therefore, the described mAbs represent useful tools for the immunodetection of hantavirus infection.
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KARIWA H, TKACHENKO EA, MOROZOV VG, SETO T, TANIKAWA Y, KOLOMINOV SI, BELOV SN, NAKAMURA I, HASHIMOTO N, BALAKIEV AE, DZAGURNOVA TK, DAUD NHBA, MIYASHITA D, MEDVEDKINA OA, NAKAUCHI M, ISHIZUKA M, YOSHII K, YOSHIMATSU K, ARIKAWA J, TAKASHIMA I. Epidemiological Study of Hantavirus Infection in the Samara Region of European Russia. J Vet Med Sci 2009; 71:1569-78. [DOI: 10.1292/jvms.001569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Hiroaki KARIWA
- Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
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Taruishi M, Yoshimatsu K, Hatsuse R, Okumura M, Nakamura I, Arikawa J. Lack of vertical transmission of Hantaan virus from persistently infected dam to progeny in laboratory mice. Arch Virol 2008; 153:1605-9. [PMID: 18612586 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-008-0156-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2007] [Accepted: 06/09/2008] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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It is unclear how the hantaviruses are transferred from infected to uninfected rodents. We studied the status of persistently infected laboratory mice and examined the frequency of viral transmission to their offspring. Expression of Hantaan virus nucleocapsid protein was detected in the lungs of persistently infected dams. None of the progeny displayed viral antigen, although they were strongly positive for IgG antibodies against hantavirus. There was neither hantavirus RNA nor virus-specific IgM antibodies or virus-specific CD8(+) T cells in the progeny. These results did not show any indication for a vertical transmission of hantaviruses, at least in the laboratory mouse model studied.
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Nakamura I, Yoshimatsu K, Lee BH, Okumura M, Taruishi M, Araki K, Kariwa H, Takashima I, Arikawa J. Development of a serotyping ELISA system for Thailand virus infection. Arch Virol 2008; 153:1537-42. [PMID: 18551243 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-008-0128-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2007] [Accepted: 04/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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To distinguish Thailand virus infection from infections with other hantaviruses, we established an ELISA serotyping system using a truncated nucleocapsid protein of Thailand virus lacking 49 amino acids at the N-terminus. In evaluations using patient and rodent sera, Thailand virus infection was readily distinguished from Hantaan and Seoul virus infections. Therefore, this ELISA system is an effective alternative to neutralization tests.
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- Ichiro Nakamura
- Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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Okumura M, Yoshimatsu K, Kumperasart S, Nakamura I, Ogino M, Taruishi M, Sungdee A, Pattamadilok S, Ibrahim IN, Erlina S, Agui T, Yanagihara R, Arikawa J. Development of serological assays for Thottapalayam virus, an insectivore-borne Hantavirus. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2006; 14:173-81. [PMID: 17182762 PMCID: PMC1797798 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00347-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Thottapalayam virus (TPMV), a member of the genus Hantavirus in the family Bunyaviridae, was isolated from an insectivore, Suncus murinus (musk shrew), captured in southern India in 1964. While the isolation of TPMV predates the discovery of the prototype Hantaan virus, little is known about its genetics and biology. To date, preliminary evidence suggests that TPMV differs significantly, both antigenically and genetically, from all known rodent-borne hantaviruses. However, since detailed epizootiological studies have not been conducted, it is unclear if TPMV is naturally harbored by an insectivore host or if TPMV represents a "spillover" from its natural rodent reservoir host. Moreover, to what extent TPMV causes infection and/or disease in humans is not known. To address these issues, we first studied the antigenic profile of TPMV using monoclonal antibodies against Hantaan and Seoul viruses and polyclonal immune sera against Puumala virus and TPMV. Armed with this newfound information, we developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay system for the diagnosis of TPMV infections in shrews and humans, using a recombinant TPMV N antigen manipulated to have an E5/G6 epitope to be captured by monoclonal antibody clone E5/G6. Using this assay, we found anti-TPMV antibodies in sera from a patient with high fever of unknown etiology in Thailand and from two shrews captured in Indonesia. Seropositivity was verified by the indirect immunofluorescence antibody test, Western blotting analysis, and focus reduction neutralization test. Collectively, our data indicate that TPMV is harbored by Suncus murinus as its host in nature and is capable of infecting humans.
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- Megumi Okumura
- Institute for Animal Experimentation, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan
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