Author:
Forghani B,Dupuis K W,Schmidt N J
Abstract
Monoclonal antibodies to varicella-zoster virus were used to study viral glycoproteins by immunoprecipitation and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Based on the viral glycoproteins immunoprecipitated, the five monoclonal antibodies fell into three groups. Two antibodies, 4B7 and 8G9 (group 1), immunoprecipitated a single glycoprotein of molecular weight (MW) 118,000 (118K glycoprotein) and had high neutralizing activity in the absence of complement. One antibody, 3C7 (group 2), which lacked neutralizing activity, immunoprecipitated two glycoproteins of MWs 120,000 and 118,000 and a glycoprotein giving a diffuse band in the region of 64,000 to 65,000. Pulse-chase experiments and experiments with monensin as an inhibitor of glycosylation suggested that the 120K polypeptide was derived by glycosylation of the 118K polypeptide and that a 43K antigen was processed into the 64 to 65K glycoprotein. Two antibodies, 3G8 and 4E6 (group 3), both had neutralizing activity only in the presence of complement, and both immunoprecipitated at least five polypeptides, with MWs ranging from 50,000 to 90,000. Antibody 3G8 was isotype immunoglobulin G2b (IgG2b), and its immunoprecipitating activity was stronger than that of 4E6, which was isotype IgG1. Pulse-chase experiments with antibody 3G8 showed that lower-MW glycopeptides chased into three polypeptides of MWs 90,000, 80,000, and 60,000 by 24 h. Immunoprecipitation experiments with antibody 3G8 on infected cells treated with glycosylation inhibitors 2-deoxyglucose, monensin, and tunicamycin, suggested that a prominent, early-appearing 70K polypeptide may have been processed into the glycoproteins of higher MWs and that the 60K polypeptide may have been derived by glycosylation of polypeptides of lower MWs.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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