A New Neutralization Epitope in the Spike Protein of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus

Jianbo Liu; Hongyan Shi; Jianfei Chen; Xin Zhang; Da Shi; Zhaoyang Ji; Zhaoyang Jing; Li Feng

A New Neutralization Epitope in the Spike Protein of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus

Jianbo Liu; Hongyan Shi; Jianfei Chen; Xin Zhang; Da Shi; Zhaoyang Ji; Zhaoyang Jing; Li Feng

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) infects piglets and causes serious diarrhea as well as vomiting, dehydration, and death. The trimeric S protein plays a crucial role in the induction of neutralizing antibodies, and many neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against PEDV S protein have been developed. However, these mAbs exclusively target the S1 protein. In this study, we obtained a neutralizing mAb, 5F7, against the S2 protein of PEDV, and this mAb could neutralize new variant genotype 2 PEDV strains (LNCT2), as well as a genotype 1 PEDV strain (CV777), in vitro. The core sequence of the epitope was found in amino acid sequence 1261 aa~1337 aa. These findings confirm that the S2 protein possessed neutralizing epitopes and provided knowledge to aid further research on this virus.

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