Reactivity pattern of 92 monoclonal antibodies with 15 human papillomavirus types
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Virology
- Vol. 89 (1), 117-129
- https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.83145-0
Abstract
Most anti-human papillomavirus (HPV) capsid antibody assays are based on virus-like particles (VLP). We evaluated glutathione S-transferase (GST)–L1 fusion proteins as ELISA antigens for determining type specificity and cross-reactivity of 92 VLP-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb) generated against nine mucosal alpha papillomavirus types of species 7, 9 and 10. The antibody panel included 25 new mAb, and 24 previously published mAb are further characterized. We determined the cross-reactivity patterns with 15 different HPV types representing 6 species (alpha1, 2, 4, 7, 9 and 10) and neutralization and cross-neutralization properties with HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18 and 45. Eighty-nine (97 %) of the antibodies including 34, 71 and 14 recognizing neutralizing, conformational and linear epitopes, respectively, reacted with the GST–L1 protein of the HPV type used as immunogen, with log titres ranging from 2.0 to 7.3. Of these 89 antibodies, 52 % were monotypic, 20 % showed intra-species and 28 % inter-species cross-reactivity. Log neutralization titres to the immunogen HPV ranged from 1.7 to 5.6. A single cross-neutralizing mAb (H6.L12) was found. ELISA titres were always higher than neutralization titres. All neutralizing epitopes were conformational and mostly type-specific. Our data show that bacterially expressed, affinity-purified GST–L1 fusion proteins display a broad variety of epitopes and thus are well suited for detection of HPV antibodies. Cross-reactivity is associated with linear as well as conformational epitopes. Distantly related mucosal and skin alpha papillomaviruses share some conformational epitopes and the phylogenetic L1-based species definition may not define a serological unit since no species-specific epitope was found.This publication has 47 references indexed in Scilit:
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