Journal: Journal of Virology
Article Title: Design of antibody structure-guided epitope vaccines in silico to induce potent immune responses against emerging viruses
doi: 10.1128/jvi.00689-25
Figure Lengend Snippet: Analysis of protein interactions of epitope peptides with scFv1. ( A ) Analysis of protein interaction between P30 peptide and scFv1. Plasmids pEGFP-P30 and pCMV-Flag-scFv1 were constructed and co-transfected into HEK293T cells. After 48 h, the proteins were collected and incubated with magnetic beads treated with mouse anti-GFP mAb. The samples were eluted with SDS-PAGE loading buffer and verified by Western blot. Plasmids pEGFP and pCMV empty vector were used as controls. ( B ) Analysis of protein interaction between S390F peptide and scFv1. ( C ) Analysis of protein interaction between G394K peptide and scFv1. ( D ) The self-activation verification of the bait plasmid PGBKT-scFv1 on SD-deficient medium. ( E ) Negative and positive controls in yeast two-hybrid assays. The pGADT-T plasmid was co-transformed with pGBKT-lam and pGBKT-53 plasmids in Y 2 Hgold competent cells as negative and positive controls, respectively. ( F ) The protein interactions between scFv1 and the P30, S390F, and G394K peptides were analyzed by yeast two-hybrid assay. After dilution, the bait plasmid pGBKT-scFv1 was co-transformed with the pGADT-P30, S390F, and G394K plasmids in Y 2 Hgold competent cells and cultured in SD-Leu-Trp and SD-Leu-Trp-His-Ade deficient medium for 48–96 h. ( G ) After a 10-fold dilution, the number of plaques on SD-LTHA deficient medium of competent cells co-transformed with pGADT-P30, S390F, and G394K with pGBKT-scFv1 plasmids was counted. * P < 0.05. ** P < 0.01. ( H ) After 100-fold dilution, the number of plaques on SD-LTHA deficient medium. * P < 0.05. ** P < 0.01. ( I ) After 1,000-fold dilution, the number of plaques on SD-LTHA deficient medium. * P < 0.05. ** P < 0.01. ( J ) The co-localization of P30, S390F, and G394K peptides with scFv1 was observed using laser confocal microscopy. To achieve this, pEGFP-P30, S390F, and G394K were co-transfected with pCMV-DsRed-scFv1 into HEK293T cells and cultured for 48 h. The fluorescence expression of the proteins was observed and analyzed under a 63× confocal microscope after DAPI staining with an anti-fluorescence quencher.
Article Snippet: In brief, TBS-washed protein A + G magnetic beads were incubated with GFP-tagged IgG2a mAb (1:3,000, Proteintech) for 1 h at room temperature.
Techniques: Construct, Transfection, Incubation, Magnetic Beads, SDS Page, Western Blot, Plasmid Preparation, Activation Assay, Transformation Assay, Y2H Assay, Cell Culture, Confocal Microscopy, Fluorescence, Expressing, Microscopy, Staining