Article
Changes in the outer capsid proteins of bluetongue virus serotype ten that abrogate neutralization by monoclonal antibodies.
Virus research - 1 Mar 2000
DeMaula C D, Bonneau K R, MacLachlan N J
Abstract excerpt
Six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) and nine neutralization resistant viral variants (escape-mutant viruses (EMVs)) were used to further characterize the neutralization determinants of bluetongue virus serotype 10 (BTV10). The EMVs were produced by sequential passage of a highly cell culture adapted United States prototype strain of BTV10 in the presence of individual neutralizing Mabs. Mabs were...
Topics
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Bluetongue virus
- Capsid
- Capsid Proteins
- Cells, Cultured
- Cricetinae
- Mutation
- Neutralization Tests
- RNA, Viral
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Serotyping
