Figure 4.
Mapping epitopes by ELISA targeting different truncated PEDV S proteins. The six truncated as well as full-length spike protein of PEDV-PT were coated into separate wells and probed with two-fold serially diluted mAbs, P4B-1 and E10E-1–10. The non-PEDV recognizing mAb, UNK-1, was added as the external control for ELISA under the same dilution conditions. The two-fold serially diluted anti-V5 tag antibody was used as the standard to show the dilution effect of the binding affinity assay. The data is represented as the S/P ratio. The wells incubated with only secondary antibodies and the wells incubated with anti-V5 tag antibody at 1,250 ng/mL were used as negative and positive controls for S/P ratio respectively. The results of the ELISA for the various truncations of the spike proteins are shown as follows: (a) S1-435; (b) S1-485; (c) S1-501; (d) S1-509; (e) S1-575; (f) S1-639 and (g) full-length S.