A sensitive radioimmunoassay for the determination of antibodies to mouse hepatitis virus.

abstract

• A solid-phase radioimmunoassay is described for the detection of antibodies to mouse hepatitis virus. Viruses were purified by velocity and isopycnic gradient centrifugation and 96-well plastic plates were coated with viral antigens. To allow the detection of most serotypes of low titered antisera, a pool of antigens from several viral serotypes were employed. The second antibody, an affinity-purified goat antimouse immunoglobulin, detects IgG, IgM and IgA antibodies. This assay is more sensitive than either the plaque reduction assay or the commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay and proved to be useful for screening mouse colonies for the presence of mouse hepatitis virus, following seroconversion in experimental animals and in the production of monoclonal antibodies to both structural and nonstructural proteins.

authors

• Leibowitz, Julian

published proceedings

• J Virol Methods

author list (cited authors)

• Leibowitz, J. L., Fung, L. S., & Levy, G. A.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Leibowitz, JL||Fung, LS||Levy, GA

publication date

• May 1983

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Virological Methods  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Antibodies, Viral
• Antibody Specificity
• Antigens, Viral
• Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
• Mice
• Murine Hepatitis Virus
• Radioimmunoassay
• Viral Plaque Assay

PubMed Central ID

• 6308026

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0166-0934(83)90040-x

start page

• 255

end page

• 265

volume

• 6

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0166-0934(83)90040-x