Journal: eBioMedicine
Article Title: Cross-binding antibodies capable of neutralising diverse hantaviruses are produced in response to Puumala virus infection
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.106091
Figure Lengend Snippet: Patient sera exhibit robust anti-PUUV IgG at all time points and cross-binding IgG by T4. ELISAs were carried out using patient sera and plates coated with ultracentrifuge-purified rVSV expressing the GnGc of A) PUUV, B) SEOV, C) DOBV, D) HTNV, E) SNV, or F) ANDV. Wild-type VSV G) was used as a negative control. IgG titres are shown as area under the curve (AUC) with the geometric mean and geometric standard deviation denoted by error bars. 11 age and sex matched healthy control sera were included as negative controls and an in-house, anti-PUUV monoclonal antibody was used as a positive control. AUC values were log10 transformed and statistical significance was interrogated via ordinary one-way ANOVA using Tukey's multiple comparisons test. Only comparisons with p ≤ 0.05 are shown. Limits of detection (LOD) were calculated for each antigen using the average + 3× standard deviations of the AUC of the negative control sera and are shown as dotted lines on each graph. The percentage of serum samples at each sampling time point with AUC values above the LOD are shown as pie charts, with the percentage of positive samples displayed in green. The n for each time point is displayed below each pie chart. H) Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of orthohantavirus M segment amino acid sequences. Clades are colour-coded according to the reservoir host species, with blue denoting viruses found in Arvicolinae, red viruses found in Sigmodontinae, and green viruses found in Murinae. Viruses included are: Puumala virus (PUUV), Prospect Hill virus (PHV), Tula virus (TULV), Andes virus (ANDV), Chocclo virus (CHOV), Black Creek Canal virus (BCCV), Sin Nombre virus (SNV), Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV), Seoul virus (SEOV), and Hantaan virus (HTNV). Viruses that are included in this study are shown in bold. The scale bar represents amino acid substitutions per site, and bootstrap consensus support values are denoted at branches if less than 90.
Article Snippet: When assaying other immunoglobulin subtypes, anti-human IgA HRP (Sigma–Aldrich, Cat# A0295, RRID: AB_257876 , 1:3000), anti-human IgM HRP (Southern Biotech, Cat# 2020-05, RRID: AB_2795603 , 1:3000), anti-human IgG1 (Southern Biotech, Cat# 9054-05, RRID: AB_2796627 , 1:5000), anti-human IgG2 (Southern Biotech, Cat# 9060-05, RRID: AB_2796633 , 1:5000), anti-human IgG3 (Southern Biotech, Cat# 9210-09, RRID: AB_2796701 , 1:5000), or anti-human IgG4 (Southern Biotech, Cat# 9200-05, RRID: AB_2796691 , 1:5000) were used.
Techniques: Binding Assay, Purification, Expressing, Negative Control, Standard Deviation, Control, Positive Control, Transformation Assay, Sampling, Virus