Establishment of a rapid ELISPOT assay for influenza virus titration and neutralizing antibody detection.
J Med Virol
; 93(6): 3455-3464, 2021 06.
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ABSTRACT
Seasonal influenza is an acute respiratory infection causing around 500 000 global deaths annually. There is an unmet medical need to develop more effective antiviral drugs and vaccines against influenza infection. A rapid, accurate, high-throughput titration assay for influenza virus particles or neutralizing antibodies would be extremely useful in these research fields. However, commonly used methods such as tissue culture infective dose and plaque-forming units (PFU) for virus particle quantification, and the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) for antibody determination are time-consuming, laborious, and have limited accuracy. In this study, we developed an efficient assay based on the enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) technique for the influenza virus and neutralizing antibody titration. Two broad-spectrum antibodies recognizing the nucleoproteins of influenza A and B viruses were used in the assay to broadly and highly sensitively detect influenza virus-infected cells at 16 hours postinfection. An optimized cell culture medium with no tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone trypsin and high dose oseltamivir acid was used to improve quantitation accuracy. This ELISPOT assay displayed a good correlation (R2 = 0.9851) with the PFU assay when used to titrate 30 influenza virus isolates. The assay was also applied to measure influenza-neutralizing antibodies in 40 human sera samples, showing a good correlation (R2 = 0.9965) with the PRNT assay. This ELISPOT titration assay is a rapid, accurate, high-throughput assay for quantification of influenza virus and neutralizing antibodies, and provides a powerful tool for research into and development of drugs and vaccines against influenza.
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Orthomyxoviridae
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Gripe Humana
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Anticuerpos Neutralizantes
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Ensayos Analíticos de Alto Rendimiento
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Ensayo de Immunospot Ligado a Enzimas
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Anticuerpos Antivirales
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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J Med Virol
Año:
2021
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Article
País de afiliación:
China