Modeling and Computer Simulation Approach to the Mechanism of Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease Virus Neutralization Assays
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 6 (8) , 831-841
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3083.1977.tb02158.x
Abstract
Block neutralization data since 1949 for the foot‐and‐mouth disease virus system have been analyzed in terms of a unified mass‐action theory for computing the amounts of infectious complexes. Proof that infectious complexes contribute considerably to the assays was obtained by demonstrating a reduction in titer after an additional reaction with anti‐Ig antibody before the assay. In the suckling mice assay with intraperitoneal inoculation, both the data of others and our own on several types indicate that for IgG probably three of the unknown total number of critical sites on the virion must be available for infectivity and death. For IgM, just one of an unknown different total number of critical sites on the virion must be available. In tissue culture infectivity assays the minimum number is two or three, whereas in the bovine tongue assay it could be one or two, but probably two. The difficulties in establishing the at present unknown total numbers of neutralization sites to both IgG and IgM are considerable. However, by the simplest interpretation of the data, the number is estimated to be between 5 and 10 for IgG and perhaps just 1 for IgM. A speculation, consistent with the known virion architecture, is that just 1 of the 12 vertices is uniquely involved in infectivity and death, at least in the suckling‐mice assay.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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