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A mechanistic basis for potent, glycoprotein B-directed gammaherpesvirus neutralization

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Title
A mechanistic basis for potent, glycoprotein B-directed gammaherpesvirus neutralization
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Journal of General Virology, May 2011
DOI 10.1099/vir.0.032177-0
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Daniel L. Glauser, Anne-Sophie Kratz, Laurent Gillet, Philip G. Stevenson

Abstract

Glycoprotein B (gB) is a conserved, essential component of gammaherpes virions and so potentially vulnerable to neutralization. However, few good gB-specific neutralizing antibodies have been identified. Here, we show that murid herpesvirus 4 is strongly neutralized by mAbs that recognize an epitope close to one of the gB fusion loops. Antibody binding did not stop gB interacting with its cellular ligands or initiating its fusion-associated conformation change, but did stop gB resolving stably to its post-fusion form, and so blocked membrane fusion to leave virions stranded in late endosomes. The conservation of gB makes this mechanism a possible general route to gammaherpesvirus neutralization.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 7%
Unknown 14 93%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 40%
Researcher 4 27%
Professor 1 7%
Student > Postgraduate 1 7%
Unknown 3 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 47%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 7%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 20%
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