Production and characterization of monoclonal antibody to glycoprotein D antigen of Herpes simplex virus type 2

A monoclonal antibody (mAb) to the glycoprotein D (gD) of Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) was successfully generated by hybridoma technology and characterized. The mAb, SKS2v, recognized a go antigen with an apparent molecular mass of 60 kDa in a Western blot analysis. The isotype was determined by a sandwich ELISA to be IgG2a. HSV-2 exhibited major antigens of 36, 43, 46, 47, 60, 69, 81, 96, 109, 112, 159, and 227 kDa among 25 protein profiles in SDS-PAGE, and among these antigens, those of 60, 112? 125, and 227 kDa were immunodominant in a Western blot analysis using antisera, thereby indicating that they play a role in inducing neutralizing antibodies in HSV-2 infection. When reacted with Vero cells infected with HSV-1 and HSV-2, SKSv2 showed a reactivity to the surface of the infected cells, and a go antigen of 60 kDa appeared to be expressed in both types of HSV.