PMID- 8645111 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19960715 LR - 20200324 IS - 0304-8608 (Print) IS - 1432-8798 (Electronic) IS - 0304-8608 (Linking) VI - 141 IP - 3-4 DP - 1996 TI - Kinetics of humoral immune response to the major structural proteins of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. PG - 751-61 AB - The kinetics of appearance of antibodies directed to the major structural proteins N, M and E of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) was followed in pigs naturally- and experimentally-exposed to the virus. Specific IgM antibody titers were first detected by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) at the end of the first week of PRRSV infection, peaked by day 14 to 21 post-inoculation (p.i.), then rapidly decreased to undetectable levels by day 35 to 42 p.i. On the other hand, specific IgG antibody titers peaked by day 21 to 28 p.i. and remained unchanged to the end of the 6- or 9-week observation period; in addition, a persistent viremia was observed. Virus neutralizing (VN) antibody titers > 8 were not detected until 3 to 4 weeks p.i. Taken together, the results obtained by Western blotting analyses using purified virus and E. coli-expressed ORFs 5 to 7 gene products, suggested that antibodies directed against the envelope E protein appear by day 7 p.i., whereas antibodies directed against the nucleocapsid N and membrane M proteins can only be detected by the end of the second week p.i. No correlation could be demonstrated between VN and IIF antibody titers, viremia, and viral protein specificities of circulating antibodies at various times p.i. FAU - Loemba, H D AU - Loemba HD AD - Centre de Recherche en Virologie, Institut Armand-Frappier, Universite du Quebec, Laval, Canada. FAU - Mounir, S AU - Mounir S FAU - Mardassi, H AU - Mardassi H FAU - Archambault, D AU - Archambault D FAU - Dea, S AU - Dea S LA - eng SI - GENBANK/L40898 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Austria TA - Arch Virol JT - Archives of virology JID - 7506870 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Viral) RN - 0 (Immunoglobulin G) RN - 0 (Immunoglobulin M) RN - 0 (Viral Structural Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antibodies, Viral/*biosynthesis/immunology MH - Antibody Formation MH - Arterivirus/*immunology MH - Arterivirus Infections/*immunology/pathology/virology MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cell Line MH - Immunoglobulin G/biosynthesis/immunology MH - Immunoglobulin M/biosynthesis/immunology MH - Kinetics MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Swine MH - Swine Diseases/*immunology/pathology/virology MH - Viral Structural Proteins/*immunology PMC - PMC7086943 EDAT- 1996/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 1996/01/01 00:01 PMCR- 2020/03/23 CRDT- 1996/01/01 00:00 PHST- 1996/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1996/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1996/01/01 00:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/03/23 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - BF01718333 [pii] AID - 10.1007/BF01718333 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Arch Virol. 1996;141(3-4):751-61. doi: 10.1007/BF01718333.