WO1996000784A1 - Fragments d'acide nucleique et fragments peptidiques correspondants issus du genome du virus de l'arthrite et de l'encephalite caprine (vaec) et leurs applications - Google Patents
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- the caprine arthritis and encephalitis virus is a lentivirus, causing leukoencephalitis in young goats and chronic clinical arthritis in 20-30% of naturally infected adult goats. Arthritis is usually progressive and is particularly severe in the synovial spaces of the carpal joints.
- the immune response to the viral antigen plays an important role in the inflammation of the joints (in particular, the inflammation of the synovial spaces of the carpal joints), in particular due to a massive infiltration of said joints. by lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages and by an accumulation of antibodies directed against the protein Env.
- the serum ⁇ having an important titer with respect to the monomeric (38 kDa) and oligomeric TM glycoproteins, are found in goats with progressive arthritis (DP KNO IES et al., J. Virol. , 1990, 64, 2396-2398).
- the present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments, characterized in that they code for a peptide fragment including at least one segment of VAEC Env protein comprising at least one immunodominant epitope and selected from the transmembrane region of said protein, which nucleic acid fragments comprise between 15 and 255 nucleotides.
- TAATTGCA SEQ ID No. 3
- G5 a fragment, corresponding to the positions
- TM3 A fragment, corresponding to positions 8130-8165 of the gene coding for the VAEC Env protein, of sequence GAAGCTATCACAGATAGAATAATGCTATACCAAGAA (SEQ ID No. 5) and coding for a peptide fragment called TM2; - A fragment, corresponding to positions 8160-8204 of the gene coding for the Env protein of VAEC, of sequence CAAGAATTGGATTGTTGGCACTATCATCAATACTGTATAACCTCT (SEQ ID No. 6) and coding for a peptide fragment called TM3; and
- TM4 a fragment, corresponding to positions 8256-8297 of the gene coding for the VAEC Env protein, of sequence TGCACATGGCAGCAGTGGGAGAGAGGATTACAGGGGTATGAT (SEQ ID No. 7) and coding for a peptide fragment called TM4.
- Another subject of the present invention is a peptide fragment, characterized in that it includes at least one segment of VAEC Env protein, selected from the transmembrane region of said protein, comprising between 5 and 85 amino acids and at least one epitope. immunodominant, and in that it is recognized by at least 60% of antibodies produced during an infection and / or during an inoculation with a strain of VAEC.
- epitope means group-specific epitopes, that is to say common to all the strains of VAEC (conserved areas), recognized by the antibodies directed against all strains of VAEC (group recognition).
- the invention includes inter alia: a fragment including a segment of 53 amino acids, called Gl, and which corresponds to positions 665-717 of the Env protein of VAEC; a fragment including a segment of 82 amino acids, called G2, and which corresponds to positions 670-751 of said Env protein;
- TM3 a fragment including a segment of 15 amino acids, called TM3, and which corresponds to positions 717-731 of said Env protein, which segment has the sequence: Xaa-Glu-Leu-Asp-Cys-Trp-His-Tyr-Xaa-Xaa -Tyr-Cys-Xaa-Thr-Ser (SEQ ID No.
- the amino acid Xaa in position 13 represents Ile or Val; preferably, when the amino acid Xaa at position 9 represents His, the amino acid Xaa at position 10 and the amino acid Xaa at position 1 represent Gln and the amino acid Xaa at position 13 represents Ile and when the amino acid Xaa at position 9 represents Gln, the amino acid Xaa in position 10 and the amino acid Xaa in position 1 represent His and the amino acid Xaa in position 13 represents Val; a fragment including a segment of 14 amino acids, called TM4, and which corresponds to positions 749-762 of said Env protein, which segment has the sequence:
- the peptide fragments G5 or TM3 and G4 or TM4 exhibit a significantly high correlation with the development of the disease and therefore serve as particularly specific markers for the diagnosis of VAEC infection; the G5 or TM3 peptide fragments also serve as markers for the diagnosis of VISNA infection.
- peptide fragment includes all the fragments including a segment of peptides as defined above, as well as the homologous peptides; generally speaking, by homologous peptides, the peptide fragments whose position and function are equivalent, within the VAEC (same location as that defined above, on the VAEC genome). All of said peptides can advantageously be obtained either by cloning or by synthesis, in particular by synthesis of Merrifield.
- the present invention also relates to anti-VAEC antibodies, characterized in that they consist of antibodies specific for at least one peptide fragment originating from the transmembrane region of the Env protein of VAEC, in accordance with the invention.
- the present invention also relates to a method for screening for a VAEC and / or VISNA infection, characterized in that it consists in detecting the antibodies, possibly present in a biological sample, using at least a peptide or fragment of peptides according to the invention, optionally attached to an appropriate solid support, by bringing said biological sample into contact with said peptide (s) or peptide fragment (s), to which the antibodies bind, if such antibodies are present in the sample to analyze, the reading of the result being revealed by an appropriate means, in particular EIA, RIA, fluorescence.
- an appropriate means in particular EIA, RIA, fluorescence.
- the peptide is chosen from TM3 and TM4 or a mixture of these.
- the present invention also relates to a method for screening for a VAEC infection, characterized in that a biological sample suitably treated to extract the DNA and / or the transcription products of the VAEC:
- the present invention also relates to a method for screening for a VAEC infection, characterized in that it consists in detecting the envelope glycoproteins of the VAEC, by bringing together a biological sample to be tested with minus an anti-peptide antibody according to the invention, the reading of the result being revealed by an appropriate means.
- the invention also comprises other provisions, which will emerge from the description which follows, which refers to examples of implementation of the method which is the subject of the present invention.
- nucleotide and amino acid positions which define the various abovementioned env regions, correspond to the positions of the sequences as published in this reference.
- the VAEC-CO clone consists of two plasmids, one containing a large part of the VAEC-CO genome from 5 '-LTR and the second containing a short insert of 321 bp, comprising the sequences coding for the C-terminal part of Env and the 3 'part of the viral LTR.
- the Smal-HindIII fragment of VAEC-CO is subcloned into the plasmid pUC18, as well as the HindIII-HindIII fragment of 321 bp; we obtain a construction called pUC18 env 3.1.
- the plasmid pUC18 env 3.1 is subjected to a partial digestion with DNAase I at 15 ° C. (15 ⁇ g / ml of DNAase I in Tris-HCl, pH 7.4 in the presence of MgCl2, 1.5 mM, for 20 min), so as to obtain different DNA fragments, of approximately 200 bp.
- the selected fragments are extracted with phenol from agarose; the various fragments obtained are then inserted into the EcoRI site of the phage ⁇ gtll.
- the ligation products are then packaged in vi tro.
- a bank of 3.10 ⁇ phages is thus constituted.
- a sample from the ⁇ gtll bank is inoculated on the strain of E. coli Y1090 at a dilution representing 10 ⁇ phages per dish 90 cm in diameter.
- the PCR includes 32 cycles (cycle 1: 94 ° C,
- the E. coli Y1090 probe is infected with 3 ⁇ 10 4 PFUs from the original unamplified library, spread on plates and incubated at 42 ° C. for 4 hours.
- the plates are then covered with nitrocellulose filters, saturated with 10 mM IPTG and incubated for 3 hours at 37 ° C., so as to induce the expression of the fusion protein, ⁇ -galactosidase- Env peptide.
- the TM3 epitope is located in the most conserved env region, while the sequences corresponding to TM1, TM2 and TM4 show variations (FIG. 3A).
- EXAMPLE 2 Screening test for a VAEC infection.
- the bacteria lysates containing the fusion proteins were prepared from lysogenic culture-HPTG.
- nitrocellulose strips are incubated with a goat serum diluted 1: 100/1: 800 overnight at 4 ° C.
- TM1 1 mg / ml
- TM2 0.5 mg / ml
- the ELISA test is carried out as follows: after coating the microtitra ⁇ tion plates, the latter are washed three times with PBS, the residual adsorption sites on the plates are saturated by incubation with 100 ⁇ l of PBS containing milk (1 %) and Tween 20 (0.1%) (ELISA EB buffer) for 2 hours at room temperature.
- optical density is measured at 405 nm on tests carried out in duplicate.
- the results are normalized using, as standard, a set of goat sera, calibrated in a Gag-GST ELISA, produced as described in R.G. ZANONI et al., J. Clin. Microbiol., 1991, 29, 1290-1294.
- TM4, TM2 and TM1 peptides react with the majority of sera, although with lower percentages than for TM3.
- optical density values obtained by ELISA were normalized and expressed as a percentage of reactivity, compared to a reference serum consisting, as specified above, in a set of serums seropositive with respect to VAEC.
- the ELISA reactivities of sera from healthy animals and arthritic animals were compared.
- IR reactivity index
- TM fragments or anti-TM antibodies
- results obtained made it possible to identify the determinants involved in the correlation between serological reactivity and evolution of viral arthritis, and therefore allow better monitoring of this disease.
- the TM3 epitope of the VAEC TM protein has the same location as the immunodominant epitope of other lentiviruses such as the lentiviruses causing immunodeficiency: HIV, SIV and FIV.
- This epitope is located in a region containing a structure defined by two cysteines which is conserved by all of the lentiviruses despite the absence of a homology of the primary sequence.
- cysteines which is conserved by all of the lentiviruses despite the absence of a homology of the primary sequence.
- SIV and FIV the sequence between the cysteines is highly conserved between the different viral isolates of the same species.
- the ELISA TM3 according to the invention is significantly more specific. The only case of reactive serum with TM3 and
- TM4 and negative with the Chekit® test requires additional tools to determine whether it is a true or a false positive.
- SEQ ID NO: 1 TAAGGCAGCT GTCCAGACCC TTGCTAATGC AACTGCTGCA CAGCAGGATG TGTTAGAGGC 60 AACCTATGCC ATGGTACAGC ATGTGGCTAA AGGCGTACGA ATCTTGGAAG CTCGAGTGGC 120 TCGAGATGGAA GCTGATA
- SEQ ID NO: 2 TACAAAAACA GAAGTAGCAA AATATATCAA TTGGACGAGG TTTAAGGATA ATTGCACATG 60 GCAGCAGTGG GAGAGAGGAT TACAGGGTA TGATACAAAC TTAACAATAC TGTTAAAGGA TACAGAAGA 120 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO: 3:
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| NZ289147A NZ289147A (en) | 1994-06-28 | 1995-06-26 | Nucleic acid fragments and corresponding peptide fragments from the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (caev) genome, screening process and uses thereof |
| US08/750,856 US5858672A (en) | 1994-06-28 | 1995-06-26 | Nucleic acid fragments and corresponding peptide fragments from the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) genome, and uses thereof |
| AU28904/95A AU693575B2 (en) | 1994-06-28 | 1995-06-26 | Nucleic acid fragments and corresponding peptide fragments from the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) genome, and uses thereof |
| EP95924366A EP0769058A1 (fr) | 1994-06-28 | 1995-06-26 | Fragments d'acide nucleique et fragments peptidiques correspondants issus du genome du virus de l'arthrite et de l'encephalite caprine (vaec) et leurs applications |
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| WO1999001767A1 (fr) * | 1997-07-04 | 1999-01-14 | Institut Pasteur De Lille | Reactif de detection et suivi des infections virales |
| KR20020033983A (ko) * | 2000-10-31 | 2002-05-08 | 김규조 | 신용카드를 이용한 자동판매기 및 그 서비스 방법 |
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| C.A. LICHTENSTEIGER ET AL.: "Recombinant gp135 envelope glycoproteins of caprine arthritis encephalitis lentivirus variants inhibit homologous and heterologous variant-specific neutralizing antibodies", VIROLOGY, vol. 185, no. 1, pages 2 - 9 * |
| D.P. KNOWLES, JR. ET AL.: "Structure and genetic variability of envelope glycoproteins of two antigenic variants of caprine arthritis-encephalitis lentivirus", JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, vol. 65, no. 11, pages 5744 - 5750 * |
| GIUSEPPE BERTONI ET AL.: "Antibody reactivity to the immunodominant epitopes of the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus gp38 transmembrane protein associates with the development of arthritis", JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, vol. 68, no. 11, pages 7139 - 7147 * |
| TRAVIS MCGUIRE ET AL.: "Transmembrane protein oligomers of caprine arthritis encephalitis lentivirus are immunodominant in goats with progressive arthritis", JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, vol. 66, no. 5, pages 3247 - 3250 * |
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| AU732865B2 (en) * | 1996-03-15 | 2001-05-03 | University Of Southern California | Caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus provides immunoprotection against HIV-1 infection |
| WO1999001767A1 (fr) * | 1997-07-04 | 1999-01-14 | Institut Pasteur De Lille | Reactif de detection et suivi des infections virales |
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| US6602505B2 (en) | 1998-04-30 | 2003-08-05 | University Of Southern California | Viral chimeras comprised of CAEV and HIV-1 genetic elements |
| KR20020033983A (ko) * | 2000-10-31 | 2002-05-08 | 김규조 | 신용카드를 이용한 자동판매기 및 그 서비스 방법 |
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