为了系统的筛选位于猪圆环病毒2型(PCV2)Cap蛋白上的抗原优势区域,本研究将缺少N端核定位信号的Cap蛋白基因分成7个连续重叠的DNA片段cap(1~7),然后分别克隆于细菌展示载体APEx中,IPTG诱导重组蛋白片段表达于细菌内膜外侧,采用流式细胞仪检测各片段和抗PCV2 Cap蛋白的多克隆抗体的结合能力。结果表明,cap(1~7)均可以和抗该Cap蛋白的多抗结合,并且cap6的结合能力最强。将cap6片段进一步分为连续不重叠的3段(cap6-1、cap6-2、cap6-3),以同样的方法鉴定抗原表位。结果显示,cap6-2与抗PCV2 Cap蛋白的多抗结合能力最强。此外,应用western blot的方法对细菌展示结果进行了验证。本研究利用细菌展示技术以及流式细胞仪快速的筛选了PCV2b Cap蛋白上的抗原优势区域,cap(1~7)片段均包含抗原表位,并且cap6是Cap蛋白上的抗原优势区域,cap6-2可能是抗原优势表位。
The Cap protein encoded by porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) plays an important role in the host immune response and therefore becomes the important target for development of diagnostic reagents against PCV2. To systematically map the linear B cell antigenic domains of the PCV2b Cap protein, in this study, Cap gene without nuclear localization signal sequence was truncated into seven sequential and overlapping fragments of cap (1-7). All fragments were expressed on the inner membrane of the Escherichia coli and the binding ability of these fragments cap (1-7) to the polyclonal antibody against PCV2b Cap protein was identified by flow cytometry. The result showed that all fragments of cap (1-7) were able to react with the polyclonal antibody, and the binding ability of cap6 was the strongest. Then cap6 was further truncated into three sequential and non-overlapping fragments (cap6-1, cap6-2 and cap6-3), and the location of the antigenic epitope was identified. The result showed that cap6-2 (aa183-aa193) had the strongest binding ability with the polyclonal antibody. We conclude that there are antigenic epitopes in all of the fragments of cap(1-7), and the cap6 (aa166-aa207) is the major antigenic domain of the PCV2b Cap. cap6-2 (aa183-aa193) may be a dominant antigenic epitope.