Article
Antibody escape by polyomavirus capsid mutation facilitates neurovirulence.
eLife - 17 Sept 2020
Lauver Matthew D, Goetschius Daniel J, Netherby-Winslow Colleen S, Ayers Katelyn N, Jin Ge, Haas Daniel G, Frost Elizabeth L, Cho Sung Hyun, Bator Carol M, Bywaters Stephanie M, Christensen Neil D, Hafenstein Susan L, Lukacher Aron E
Abstract excerpt
JCPyV polyomavirus, a member of the human virome, causes progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), an oft-fatal demyelinating brain disease in individuals receiving immunomodulatory therapies. Mutations in the major viral capsid protein, VP1, are common in JCPyV from PML patients (JCPyV-PML) but whether they confer neurovirulence or escape from virus-neutralizing antibody (nAb) in vivo is unknown. A mouse...
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