PMID- 15467838 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20041122 LR - 20181113 IS - 0021-9738 (Print) IS - 0021-9738 (Linking) VI - 114 IP - 7 DP - 2004 Oct TI - Kinetics of protective antibodies are determined by the viral surface antigen. PG - 988-93 AB - Delayed and weak virus neutralizing antibody (nAb) responses represent a hallmark correlating not only with the establishment of persistent infection but also with unsuccessful vaccine development. Using a reverse genetic approach, we evaluated possible underlying mechanisms in 2 widely studied viral infection models. Swapping the glycoproteins (GPs) of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV, naturally persisting, noncytolytic, inefficient nAb inducer) and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV, nonpersisting, cytolytic, potent nAb inducer) transferred the only target of nAb's from either virus to the other. We analyzed the nAb response to each of the 2 recombinant and parent viruses in infected mice and found that nAb kinetics were solely determined by the viral surface GP and not by the virus backbone. Moreover, the slowly and poorly nAb-triggering LCMV virion was a potent immunogenic matrix for the more antigenic VSV-GP. These findings indicate that the viral GP determines nAb kinetics largely independently of the specific viral infection context. They further suggest that structural features of viral GPs or coevolutionary adaptation of the virus's GP to the host's naive B cell repertoire, or both, may critically limit nAb kinetics and improvement of vaccine efficacy. FAU - Pinschewer, Daniel D AU - Pinschewer DD AD - Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. pinschi@pathol.unizh.ch FAU - Perez, Mar AU - Perez M FAU - Jeetendra, Eswaraka AU - Jeetendra E FAU - Bachi, Thomas AU - Bachi T FAU - Horvath, Edit AU - Horvath E FAU - Hengartner, Hans AU - Hengartner H FAU - Whitt, Michael A AU - Whitt MA FAU - de la Torre, Juan Carlos AU - de la Torre JC FAU - Zinkernagel, Rolf M AU - Zinkernagel RM LA - eng GR - R01 AI047140/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 AI047140/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - AI-47140/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - GM-53726/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Clin Invest JT - The Journal of clinical investigation JID - 7802877 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Viral) RN - 0 (Antigens, Surface) RN - 0 (Antigens, Viral) SB - IM CIN - J Clin Invest. 2004 Oct;114(7):895-7. PMID: 15467827 MH - Animals MH - Antibodies, Viral/*immunology MH - Antigens, Surface/genetics/*immunology MH - Antigens, Viral/genetics/*immunology MH - Cell Line MH - Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/genetics/metabolism MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology MH - Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus/genetics/metabolism MH - Virion/immunology/ultrastructure PMC - PMC518669 EDAT- 2004/10/07 09:00 MHDA- 2004/12/16 09:00 PMCR- 2004/10/01 CRDT- 2004/10/07 09:00 PHST- 2004/06/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2004/07/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2004/10/07 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/12/16 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/10/07 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2004/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 22374 [pii] AID - 10.1172/JCI22374 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Clin Invest. 2004 Oct;114(7):988-93. doi: 10.1172/JCI22374.