Studies on the Major Common Precipitating Antigen of Capripoxvirus
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Virology
- Vol. 67 (1) , 139-148
- https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-67-1-139
Abstract
The proteins of sheep pox, goat pox, sheep and goat pox and lumpy skin disease (Neethling) viruses were labelled with [35S]methionine. The major structural polypeptides of these viruses co-migrated on polyacrylamide gels, demonstrating the very close biochemical relationship between them. Using the agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) test with radiolabelled antigen preparations, a major common precipitating antigen was identified. This co-migrated on polyacrylamide gels with one of the major structural polypeptides [mol. wt. 67000 (67K)]. The use of [35S]methionine-labelled antigen preparations considerably improved the sensitivity of the AGID test as a diagnostic test for capripoxvirus antibody detection.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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