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ArticleBMC infectious diseases2005

Generation of human antibody fragments recognizing distinct epitopes of the nucleocapsid (N) SARS-CoV protein using a phage display approach.

Michela Flego, Paola Di Bonito, Alessandro Ascione, Silvia Zamboni, Alessandra Carattoli, Felicia Grasso, Antonio Cassone, Maurizio Cianfriglia

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  5. The SARS-CoV nucleocapsid protein: a protein with multifarious activities.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2008
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Michela FlegoDepartment of Drug Research and Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. flego@iss.it
Paola Di Bonito
Alessandro Ascione
Silvia Zamboni
Alessandra Carattoli
Felicia Grasso
Antonio Cassone
Maurizio Cianfriglia

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Abstract

backgroundSevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV is a newly emerging virus that causes SARS with high mortality rate in infected people. Successful control of the global SARS epidemic will require rapid and sensitive diagnostic tests to monitor its spread, as well as, the development of vaccines and new antiviral compounds including neutralizing antibodies that effectively prevent or treat this disease.

methodsThe human synthetic single-chain fragment variable (scFv) ETH-2 phage antibody library was used for the isolation of scFvs against the nucleocapsid (N) protein of SARS-CoV using a bio panning-based strategy. The selected scFvs were characterized under genetics-molecular aspects and for SARS-CoV N protein detection in ELISA, western blotting and immunocytochemistry.

resultsHuman scFv antibodies to N protein of SARS-CoV can be easily isolated by selecting the ETH-2 phage library on immunotubes coated with antigen. These in vitro selected human scFvs specifically recognize in ELISA and western blotting studies distinct epitopes in N protein domains and detect in immunohistochemistry investigations SARS-CoV particles in infected Vero cells.

conclusionThe human scFv antibodies isolated and described in this study represent useful reagents for rapid detection of N SARS-CoV protein and SARS virus particles in infected target cells.

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Peptide LibraryAntibodies, ViralCoronavirus Nucleocapsid ProteinsEpitopesHumansImmunoglobulin FragmentsNucleocapsid ProteinsSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusAntibodies, ViralCoronavirus Nucleocapsid ProteinsEpitopesImmunoglobulin Fragmentsimmunoglobulin FvN protein, SARS-CoVNucleocapsid ProteinsPeptide Library

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PMCPMC1261265

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