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Neutralizing monoclonal antibody (MAb) escape mutants of Hantaan virus were generated using MAbs to envelope protein G1 (16D2) and G2 (11E10). The mutant viruses (mu16D2 and mu11E10), lacked reactivity only to the selecting MAb, or a MAb belonging to the same antigenic site. Both mutants had a single amino acid (a.a.) substitution. The a.a. substitution, found in mu16D2, was different from that found in another mutant selected with the same MAb (16D2). Although MAb 11E10 immunoprecipitated G2 protein, a deduced a.a. substitution was located in the G1 region. These results suggest that antigenic sites defined by neutralizing MAbs are composed of discontinuous epitopes over the G1 and G2 proteins. Mutant 11E10 showed a significant decrease in virulence in suckling mice. A virulence revertant of mu11E10, selected through passages in suckling mice brain, showed exactly the same deduced a.a. sequence as mu11E10 and still was not neutralized by MAb 11E10. Since mutant 16D2 was virulent for suckling mice, neutralization related epitopes found with MAbs 11E10 and 16D2 were independent of pathogenicity in BALB/c mice.
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Accepted August 13, 1997 Received March 17, 1997
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Kikuchi, M., Yoshimatsu, K., Arikawa, J. et al. Characterization of neutralizing monoclonal antibody escape mutants of Hantaan virus 76118. Arch. Virol. 143, 73–83 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007050050269
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007050050269