Department of Laboratory Animal Science, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu 069-8501, Japan.
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis. 2010 Dec;33(6):e67-73. doi: 10.1016/j.cimid.2010.01.001. Epub 2010 Feb 8.
Tula virus (TULV) and Puumala virus (PUUV) are hantaviruses carried by the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) and European common vole (Microtus arvalis), respectively. PUUV is a causative agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), while TULV is thought to be apathogenic to humans. The N-terminal regions of the N proteins from TULV and PUUV were expressed and applied as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) antigens. Colonized Japanese grass voles (Microtus montebelli) and BALB/c mice were used for experimental inoculation of the vole-borne hantaviruses TULV and PUUV. Voles and mice showed significant antibody production toward both viruses, but these antisera showed little cross-reactivity between TULV and PUUV in the immunofluorescence antibody assay and ELISA. In contrast, sera from patients with HFRS caused by PUUV exhibited high cross-reactivity against the TULV antigen, and sera from a natural rodent reservoir showed moderate cross-reactivity against the heterologous antigen, indicating that the antigenic cross-reactivity between TULV and PUUV differs in sera from rodents and humans.
图拉病毒(TULV)和普马拉病毒(PUUV)分别由鼩鼱田鼠(Myodes glareolus)和欧洲田鼠(Microtus arvalis)携带,是汉坦病毒。PUUV 是引起肾综合征出血热(HFRS)的病原体,而 TULV 被认为对人类无致病性。我们表达了 TULV 和 PUUV 的 N 蛋白的 N 端区域,并将其作为酶联免疫吸附试验(ELISA)的抗原。我们用实验接种的方式,用日本鼩鼱田鼠(Microtus montebelli)和 BALB/c 小鼠感染了这两种病毒。田鼠和小鼠对这两种病毒均产生了明显的抗体,但在免疫荧光抗体试验和 ELISA 中,这些抗血清对 TULV 和 PUUV 的交叉反应性很小。相比之下,HFRS 患者的血清对 TULV 抗原表现出高交叉反应性,而天然啮齿动物储层的血清对异源抗原表现出中等交叉反应性,这表明 TULV 和 PUUV 之间的抗原交叉反应性在啮齿动物和人类血清中存在差异。