Evaluation and analysis of dengue virus enhancing and neutralizing activities using simple high-throughput assays

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2013 Jul;97(14):6503-11. doi: 10.1007/s00253-013-5021-8. Epub 2013 Jun 12.

Abstract

The risk of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of dengue virus (DENV) infection is a major obstacle for the development of dengue vaccine candidates. Here, we described a novel approach for assessment of ADE by measuring DENV nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) production in culture supernatants with Fcγ receptor-expressing K562 cells in ELISA format (ELISA-ADE). Enhancing activities quantified by measurement of kinetics of NS1 production were in a good agreement with the results of the virus titration assay. In conjunction with the previously established enzyme-linked immunospot-based micro-neutralization test (ELISPOT-MNT) in 96-well format, the observable dose-response profiles of enhancing and neutralizing activities against all four DENV serotypes were produced with two flaviviral envelope cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies and four primary DENV-1-infected human sera. The simple high-throughput ELISA-ADE assay offers advantages for quantitative measurement of infection enhancement that can potentially be applied to large-scale seroepidemiological studies of DENV infection and vaccination.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Neutralizing / immunology
  • Antibodies, Viral / immunology
  • Antibody-Dependent Enhancement*
  • Dengue / diagnosis
  • Dengue / immunology*
  • Dengue / virology*
  • Dengue Virus / classification
  • Dengue Virus / immunology
  • Dengue Virus / physiology*
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / methods*
  • High-Throughput Screening Assays / methods*
  • Humans
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins / immunology

Substances

  • Antibodies, Neutralizing
  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins