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Future Microbiol 4:837C856

Future Microbiol 4:837C856. cloned sequences: Asian CHIKV, L37661; ECSA CHIKV, KT449801; WAf CHIKV, HM045816; MAYV, AF339482; ONNV, AF079456; RRV, DQ226993; VEEV, L01443; EEEV, AY705241; WEEV, GQ287645. Download FIG?S1, PDF file, 0.2 MB. This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Foreign copyrights may Goat polyclonal to IgG (H+L)(Biotin) apply. FIG?S2? Rabbit polyclonal antibody binding to alphavirus microarray antigens. Rabbit anti-CHIKV polyclonal antibody raised against whole inactivated CHIKV strain 181/25 (A) DW-1350 or rabbit anti-WEEV E2 peptide polyclonal antibody (B) DW-1350 was used to probe alphavirus protein microarrays. The ratio of the antigen signal to the cutoff value was determined for each replicate spot. Cutoff values were determined as the mean signal of the control proteins plus 3 standard deviations. The average ratio for replicate antigen spots was determined, and ratios >1 are shown with error bars representing standard deviations. Vertical lines separate antigens into C, E1, and E2 groups. Download FIG?S2, PDF file, 0.03 MB. This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Foreign copyrights may apply. TABLE?S1? Primer pairs used for cloning of alphavirus genes (5-to-3 direction). Download TABLE?S1, PDF file, 0.1 MB. This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. DW-1350 Foreign copyrights may apply. Mayaro, chikungunya, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses are closely related alphaviruses that are spread by mosquitos, causing diseases that produce similar influenza-like symptoms or more severe illnesses. Moreover, alphavirus infection symptoms can be similar to those of dengue or Zika disease, leading to underreporting of cases and potential misdiagnoses. New methods that can be used to detect antibody responses to multiple alphaviruses within the same assay would greatly aid disease surveillance efforts. However, possible antibody cross-reactivity between viruses can reduce the quality of laboratory results. Our results demonstrate that antibody responses to multiple alphaviruses can be specifically quantified within the same assay by using selected recombinant protein antigens and further show that Mayaro virus infections result in unique responses to viral envelope proteins. KEYWORDS: alphavirus, humoral immunity, protein microarray, viral antigen ABSTRACT Mayaro virus (MAYV), Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) are vector-borne alphaviruses that cocirculate in South America. Human infections by these viruses are frequently underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed, especially in DW-1350 areas with high dengue virus endemicity. Disease may progress to debilitating arthralgia (MAYV, CHIKV), encephalitis (VEEV), and death. Few standardized serological assays exist for specific human alphavirus infection detection, and antigen cross-reactivity can be problematic. Therefore, serological platforms that aid in the specific detection of multiple alphavirus infections will greatly expand disease surveillance for these emerging infections. In this study, serum samples from South American patients with PCR- and/or isolation-confirmed infections caused by MAYV, VEEV, and CHIKV were examined by using a protein microarray assembled with recombinant capsid, envelope protein 1 (E1), and E2 from nine New and Old World alphaviruses. Notably, specific antibody recognition of E1 was observed only with MAYV infections, whereas E2 was specifically targeted by antibodies from all of the alphavirus infections investigated, with evidence of cross-reactivity to E2 of onyong-nyong virus only in CHIKV-infected patient serum samples. Our findings suggest that alphavirus structural protein microarrays can distinguish infections caused DW-1350 by MAYV, VEEV, and CHIKV and that this multiplexed serological platform could be useful for high-throughput disease surveillance. IMPORTANCE Mayaro, chikungunya, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses are closely related alphaviruses that are spread by mosquitos, causing diseases that produce similar influenza-like symptoms or more severe illnesses. Moreover, alphavirus infection symptoms can be similar to those of dengue or Zika disease, leading to underreporting of cases and potential misdiagnoses. New methods that can be used to detect antibody responses to multiple alphaviruses within the same assay.