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. 1989 Dec;63(12):5030–5036. doi: 10.1128/jvi.63.12.5030-5036.1989

Virus mutation frequencies can be greatly underestimated by monoclonal antibody neutralization of virions.

J J Holland 1, J C de la Torre 1, D A Steinhauer 1, D Clarke 1, E Duarte 1, E Domingo 1
PMCID: PMC251163  PMID: 2479770

Abstract

Monoclonal antibody-resistant mutants have been widely used to estimate virus mutation frequencies. We demonstrate that standard virion neutralization inevitably underestimates monoclonal antibody-resistant mutant genome frequencies of vesicular stomatitis virus, due to phenotypic masking-mixing when wild-type (wt) virions are present in thousandsfold greater numbers. We show that incorporation of antibody into the plaque overlay medium (after virus penetration at 37 degrees C) can provide accurate estimates of genome frequencies of neutral monoclonal antibody-resistant mutant viruses in wt clones. By using this method, we have observed two adjacent G----A base transition frequencies in the I3 epitope to be of the order of 10(-4) in a wt glycine codon. This appears to be slightly lower than the frequencies observed at other sites for total (viable and nonviable) virus genomes when using a direct sequence approach.

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