1. Resistance to Rotavirus Infection in Adult Volunteers Challenged with a Virulent G1P1A[8] Virus Correlated with Serum Immunoglobulin G Antibodies to Homotypic Viral Proteins 7 and 4
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Yasutaka Hoshino, Inyoung Kim, Lijuan Yuan, Albert Z. Kapikian, and Shinjiro Honma
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biology ,Viral protein ,viruses ,virus diseases ,Reoviridae ,medicine.disease_cause ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,Virus ,Immunoglobulin G ,Serology ,fluids and secretions ,Infectious Diseases ,Antigen ,Rotavirus ,medicine ,biology.protein ,Immunology and Allergy ,Antibody - Abstract
Background. In a study performed in 1983, 18 adult volunteers received oral challenge with the virulent human rotavirus strain D (G1P1A[8],NSP4[B]). To identify correlates of resistance to rotavirus infection, we analyzed levels of serum immunoglobulin (Ig) A and IgG antibodies to various rotaviral antigens in 16 of the 18 volunteers. Methods. We used immunocytochemical assays that involved a total of 16 different recombinant baculoviruses, with each baculovirus expressing one of the following major serotype/genotype rotavirus proteins for the serologic assays: (1) viral protein (VP) 4 with P1A[8], P1B[4], P2A[6], P3[9], or P4[10] specificity; (2) VP7 with G1-G4 or G9 specificity; and (3) nonstructural viral protein (NSP) 4 with genotype A, B, C, or D specificity. Results. The prechallenge titers of IgG antibody to VP7 types G1, G3, G4, and G9; VP4 types P1A[8], P1B[4], P2A[6], and P4[10]; and NSP4 type [A] in the group of noninfected volunteers (n = 11) were significantly higher than those in the group of infected volunteers (n = 5; of these 5 volunteers, 4 were symptomatically infected). Moreover, logistic regression analysis showed that resistance to rotavirus infection most closely correlated with higher prechallenge titers of IgG antibody to homotypic VP7 (G1) and VP4 (P1A[8]). Conclusions. These results suggest that protection against rotavirus infection and disease is primarily VP7/ VP4 homotypic and, to a lesser degree, heterotypic.
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- 2009