TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING OF MURINE LEUKEMIA-VIRUS PROTEINS BY COMPETITION-BINDING ASSAYS WITH MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIES
TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING OF MURINE LEUKEMIA-VIRUS PROTEINS BY COMPETITION-BINDING ASSAYS WITH MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIES
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6822(80)90528-0
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
NOWINSKI, RC
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作者:
STONE, MR;NOWINSKI, RC
Monoclonal antibodies produced by hybrid cells [mouse] in culture are chemically homogeneous reagents that react with constant avidity to single antigenic determinants (epitopes). These antibodies are remarkably specific probes for small regions of complex antigenic proteins. A panel of monoclonal antibodies was used in competition binding assays to investigate the arrangement of 6 epitopes on the envelope proteins of AKR leukemia virus. If 2 epitopes were adjacent to each other on a single protein, the binding of antibody to 1 epitope would sterically hinder the binding of antibody to the other epitope. If the 2 epitopes were at distant sites on the protein, the binding of antibody to 1 epitope would not influence the binding of antibody to the other epiptope. The results of the competition binding assays demonstrated the presence of 2 distinct antigen sites on the gp70 and p15(E) envelope proteins. With the gp70 protein, 1 antigen site contained the gp70b and gp70c epitopes; the other antigen site on this protein contained the gp70a epitope. With p15(E), 1 antigen site contained the p15(E)b and p15(E)c epitopes; the other site contained the p15(E)a epitope. The utility of this type of serological analysis for the study of the tertiary structure of individual viral proteins was demonstrated.