Journal: Viruses
Article Title: Multiplex Serology for Sensitive and Specific Flavivirus IgG Detection: Addition of Envelope Protein Domain III to NS1 Increases Sensitivity for Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus IgG Detection
doi: 10.3390/v16020286
Figure Lengend Snippet: Validation of orthoflavivirus recombinant NS1 for sensitive and specific microarray detection of orthoflavivirus IgG. Heatmaps displaying microarray titers for the orthoflavivirus rNS1 of ( a ) orthoflavivirus negative reference sera, ( b ) WNV patients, ( d ) ZIKV patients, ( f ) DENV patients and ( h ) TBEV patients. (The color key of the titers is indicated at the bottom of each heatmap). The microarray antigens are listed on the left of each heatmap. Violin plots showing microarray titers of ( c ) WNV patients, ( e ) ZIKV patients, ( g ) DENV patients and ( i ) TBEV natural infection-positive sera against the recombinant NS1 of TBEV, DENV1, DENV2, DENV3, DENV4, ZIKV, WNV, USUV and JEV. A non-parametric t -test was performed to assess the statistical differences of paired samples. Significance is noted as ***, p < 0.001; *, p < 0.5. ( b ) Receiving operating characterization (ROC) curve was created with GraphPad Prism software (version 9.1.0).
Article Snippet: TBEV rEDIII and the rNS1 of DENV 1 , DENV 2 , DENV 3 , DENV 4 , JEV, TBEV, USUV, WNV lineage 2 and ZIKV at concentrations of 1.5 mg/mL were mixed with 2× protein printing buffer (GVS, Sandford, FL, USA) and spotted in duplicate in three drops of 333 pL each on 24-pad nitrocellulose-coated slides (ONCYTE AVID, GraceBio Labs, Bend, OR, USA) by using a non-contact Marathon Arrayjet microarray spotter (Roslin, UK).
Techniques: Biomarker Discovery, Recombinant, Microarray, Infection, Software