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. 1983 Apr;46(1):103–112. doi: 10.1128/jvi.46.1.103-112.1983

Application of Denatured, Electrophoretically Separated, and Immobilized Lysates of Herpes Simplex Virus-Infected Cells for Detection of Monoclonal Antibodies and for Studies of the Properties of Viral Proteins

Daniel K Braun 1, Lenore Pereira 2, Bodil Norrild 3, Bernard Roizman 1
PMCID: PMC255097  PMID: 6298448

Abstract

We report the use of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)- and HSV-2-infected cell polypeptides (ICPs) separated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels and transferred to nitrocellulose to (i) detect monoclonal antibodies to viral polypeptides and to (ii) study the properties of the proteins with the monoclonal antibodies. Our results were as follows. (i) When the antigens were electrophoretically separated in denaturing gels and then immobilized on nitrocellulose strips, we detected a greater diversity of monoclonal antibodies to viral proteins than when we used the technique of immune precipitation of soluble, nondenatured viral antigens. The primary advantage of the technique is in the detection of nonprecipitating antibody and of antibody to poorly soluble antigens not available for reaction in preparations cleared by high-speed centrifugation before immune reaction. (ii) Studies of the viral polypeptides reactive with three monoclonal antibodies indicated that the technique can be used to investigate several properties of the antigens. Specifically, monoclonal antibody to ICP 4 confirmed the accumulation of viral protein in the nucleus and the mapping of the gene in the S component. The results showed, however, that HSV-1 and HSV-2 ICP 4 do have common antigenic determinants. The reaction of a nonprecipitating monoclonal antibody with electrophoretically separated, immobilized polypeptides contained in cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions, those chemically deglycosylated, or those specified by specific HSV-1 x HSV-2 intertypic recombinants identified the antigens reactive with the second monoclonal antibody as various forms of glycoprotein gC. Of particular interest was a set of four antigens, 39,000 to 46,500 in apparent molecular weight, reactive with each of several monoclonal antibodies. These studies showed that two polypeptides partition in the cytoplasm and two in the nucleus and that all comap with the previously mapped ICPs 35 and 37 in the region of the genome defined by the viral thymidine kinase gene on the left and the glycoprotein gA/B gene on the right. Unlike ICP 4 and gC, the four polypeptides are linked by intermolecular bisulfide bonds, inasmuch as the polypeptides were not at the expected locations upon denaturation and electrophoresis in the absence of reducing agents.

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