Cloning the antibody response in humans with inflammatory CNS disease: isolation of measles virus-specific antibodies from phage display libraries of a subacute sclerosing panencephalitis brain
Cloning the antibody response in humans with inflammatory CNS disease: isolation of measles virus-specific antibodies from phage display libraries of a subacute sclerosing panencephalitis brain
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DOI:
10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00243-4
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发表时间:
1999-02-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Gilden, DH
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作者:
Burgoon, MP;Williamson, RA;Gilden, DH
We have developed a strategy to identify the disease-relevant antigens in a chronic inflammatory CNS disease exhibiting intrathecally expressed oligoclonal IgG. Using subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a chronic inflammatory measles virus infection of the brain as a model system, we constructed a phage display antibody Fab Library from the amplified products of IgG expressed in the brain. Selection of the library against measles virus-infected cell lysates yielded four distinct Fabs which, by ELISA and by immunostaining, reacted specifically with measles virus-infected cells. Three Fabs immunoprecipitated a 72 kDa protein from infected cell cultures corresponding to the measles virus phosphoprotein. The fourth Fab immunoprecipitated and recognized by immunoblotting a 60 kDa protein corresponding to the measles virus nucleoprotein. The results demonstrate that functional antibodies from an inflammatory CNS disease can be expressed in bacteria and used to identify disease-relevant antigens. This approach could be applied to chronic inflammatory CNS diseases of unknown cause such as multiple sclerosis. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.