Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
Department of Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
Virology. 2014 Jan 20;449:304-16. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.10.038. Epub 2013 Dec 20.
We show that minor capsid protein L2 is full length in clinical virion isolates and prepare furin-cleaved pseudovirus (fcPsV) as a model of the infectious intermediate for multiple human papillomavirus (HPV) types. These fcPsV do not require furin for in vitro infection, and are fully infectious in vivo. Both the γ-secretase inhibitor XXI and carrageenan block fcPsV infection in vitro and in vivo implying that they act after furin-cleavage of L2. Despite their enhanced exposure of L2 epitopes, vaccination with fcPsV particles fails to induce L2 antibody, although L1-specific responses are similar to PsV with intact L2. FcPsV can be applied in a simple, high-throughput neutralization assay that detects L2-specific neutralizing antibodies with >10-fold enhanced sensitivity compared with the PsV-based assay. The PsV and fcPsV-based assays exhibit similar sensitivity for type-specific antibodies elicited by L1 virus-like particles (VLP), but the latter improves detection of L1-specific cross-type neutralizing antibodies.
我们证明,临床病毒分离株中的次要衣壳蛋白 L2 是全长的,并制备了弗林蛋白酶切割的假病毒(fcPsV)作为多种人乳头瘤病毒(HPV)类型的感染中间体模型。这些 fcPsV 不需要弗林蛋白酶进行体外感染,并且在体内具有完全的感染性。γ-分泌酶抑制剂 XXI 和角叉菜胶均可阻断 fcPsV 在体外和体内的感染,这表明它们在 L2 的弗林蛋白酶切割之后起作用。尽管 fcPsV 颗粒增强了 L2 表位的暴露,但接种 fcPsV 颗粒未能诱导 L2 抗体,尽管 L1 特异性反应与具有完整 L2 的 PsV 相似。FcPsV 可应用于简单、高通量的中和测定中,与基于 PsV 的测定相比,该测定检测 L2 特异性中和抗体的灵敏度提高了 10 倍以上。基于 PsV 和 fcPsV 的测定法对 L1 病毒样颗粒(VLP)诱导的型特异性抗体具有相似的敏感性,但后者提高了对 L1 特异性交叉型中和抗体的检测。