1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The role of glycosylation in determining the immunogenicity of influenza C virus glycoprotein
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60480169
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Virology
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| Research Institution | Yamagata University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAMURA Kiyoto Yamagata University School of Medicine Professor, 医学部, 教授 (00125775)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SUGAWARA Kanetsu Yamagata University School of Medicine Staff for Education and Research, 医学部, 教務職員 (60110673)
NISHIMURA Hidekazu Yamagata University School of Medicine Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (50172698)
KITAME Fumio Yamagata University School of Medicine Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (40004676)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1986
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| Keywords | Influenza C Virus / Glycoprotein / Carbohydratos / Immunogenicity / モノクローナル抗体 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this study is to understand the role of glycosylation in determining the immunogenicity of influenza C virus glycoprotein, gp88. To this goal, the antigenicity of gp88 was compared with its nonglycosylated form (T76) synthesized in the presence of tunicamycin, utilizing seven monoclonal antibodies raised against gp88 of the C/Ann Arbor/1/50 strain. These monoclonal antibodies could be classified into two groups, A and B. Group A inhibits hemagglutination, hemolysis and infectivity of the virus whereas group B does not. Radioimmunoprecipitation experiments revealed that three antibodies in group B were all reactive with T76 as well as with gp88. In contrast, three out of four antibodies in group A did not precipitate T76 at all, and only a limited amount of the polypeptide was precipitated with the other antibody of this group. Western blot analysis also showed that denatured gp88 blotted on nitrocellulose was reactive with group B antibodies but not with group A. From these observations, we conclude that glycosylation of gp88 selectively influences the integrity of biologically active and conformation-dependent epitopes recognized by group A antibodies. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that in the absence of glycosylation, the gp88 glycoprotein may fail to attain an appropriate conformation, and as a result, may be unable to elicit neutralizing antibodies.
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