Immunoreactivity of chimeric proteins carrying the HIV-1 epitope IGPGRAF. Correlation between predicted conformation and antigenicity

FEBS Letters
S G TisminetzkyS Miertus

Abstract

Sera from HIV-1 infected individuals were examined for their reactivity to the principal neutralizing domain, IGPGRAF sequence, of the V3-loop of HIV-1. Four hybrid proteins carrying this sequence inserted in four different outer loops of a protein that makes up the capsid of an insect virus were used as antigen in a Western blot assay for this survey. All the four antigens showed different activity: sera that recognise all antigens to sera that reacted with only one of them. Competition experiments indicated that the antibodies recognised these proteins with different affinity. Molecular modelling of the hybrid proteins predicted that the inserted sequence adopted different conformations in each position. Comparison of predicted most stable conformations for IGPGRAF indicated that there is a close relationship between conformational similarity to a V3-loop reference structure and the degree of reactivity with sera.

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