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. 1986 May;58(2):307–313. doi: 10.1128/jvi.58.2.307-313.1986

Structure of the hepatitis A virion: peptide mapping of the capsid region.

C M Wheeler, B H Robertson, G Van Nest, D Dina, D W Bradley, H A Fields
PMCID: PMC252914  PMID: 3009847

Abstract

Milligram amounts of highly purified hepatitis A virus (HAV) were obtained from persistently infected cell cultures. The HAV polypeptides were separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and transferred to nitrocellulose for detection by an enzyme-linked immunotransfer blot procedure. The HAV nucleotide-derived amino acid sequence was subjected to computer analysis to identify potential immunogenic regions within the HAV capsid polypeptides. Synthetic peptides corresponding to selected regions of each of the larger putative capsid polypeptides were coupled to keyhole limpet hemocyanin and used to immunize rabbits. Four of six anti-HAV peptide sera were strongly reactive. Antipeptide serum generated against amino acids (a.a.) 75 through 82 reacted with the 27,000-molecular-weight (MW) polypeptide; serum against a.a. 279 through 285 reacted with the 29,000-MW HAV polypeptide; and sera against a.a. 591 through 602 and 606 through 618 reacted with the 33,000-MW HAV polypeptide. These reactions enabled the identification of the gene order of the larger HAV P1 region gene products. Our data indicate the following molecular weights: HAV VP2 or 1B, 27,000; HAV VP3 or 1C, 29,000; and HAV VP1 or 1D, 33,000.

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