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Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library

Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/83778 Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library Maree, Francois Frederick jacques.theron@up.ac.za Vosloo, Wilna Opperman, Pamela Anne UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease of cloven-hoofed animals. An outbreak of FMD not only severely decreases livestock productivity, but also impacts on both the local and export trade of susceptible animals and their products. This, in turn, negatively impacts the economy of affected countries. Of the seven serotypes that exist for FMD virus (FMDV), the three South African Territories (SAT) types display greater intratypic genomic and antigenic variation than the traditional “Euro-Asian” types. Although antigenic variation represents an important adaptive strategy of FMDV, especially in its maintenance host, it contributes to the decrease of vaccine cross-protection in the field, thus rendering available vaccines less effective. Knowledge of the amino acid residues that comprise the antigenic determinants will allow for the structural design of vaccine seed viruses that may provide improved protection against specific outbreak strains. The SAT2 type viruses, which are responsible for most of the FMD outbreaks in domestic animals in southern Africa, are the most variable of the SAT serotypes. In order to identify antigenic regions present on a SAT2 FMDV, two approaches were followed. In the first approach, a SAT2 vaccine strain, ZIM/7/83, was panned with a naïve chicken phagedisplayed library. Three unique SAT2/ZIM/7/83-specific phage-scFvs were obtained. Of these, phage-scFv2 was able to neutralize the SAT2/ZIM/7/83 virus and following sequencing of neutralization-resistant virus variants, an antigenic site was mapped to include residue 159 of the VP1 capsid protein. In the second approach, genetically modified viruses were generated in which known and predicted epitopes of SAT2/ZIM/7/83 were replaced with those of a disparate virus, SAT2/KNP/19/89, to determine the role of known SAT2 epitopes and to identify new potential antigenic regions. Following characterization of the epitopereplaced mutant viruses and studies with SAT2-specific monoclonal antibodies, two additional antigenic sites were mapped to include residues 71-72 of the VP2 capsid protein. The information gained from this study will not only increase the knowledge of the antigenic sites of SAT2 viruses and aid in identifying more suitable vaccine strains for SAT2 viruses, but is also the first step towards the production of a SAT2-specific epitope-based vaccine. South African Department of Science and Technology Agricultural Research Council University of Pretoria Microbiology and Plant Pathology PhD Unrestricted 2022-02-10T10:00:07Z 2022-02-10T10:00:07Z 2013 2013-11 Thesis * D14/9/37 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83778 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
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Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
title Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
title_full Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
title_fullStr Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
title_full_unstemmed Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
title_short Antigenic site determination on a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
title_sort antigenic site determination on a sat2 foot and mouth disease virus using a chicken antibody phage display library
topic UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83778