Monoclonal antibodies against simian virus 40 nuclear large T tumour antigen: epitope mapping, papova virus cross-reaction and cell surface staining.

AUTOR(ES)

Ball, R K

RESUMO

Thirty six cloned hybridomas have been isolated which produce monoclonal antibodies directed against simian virus 40 (SV40) large T tumour antigen. They have been shown to recognize at least six different epitopes along the T antigen polypeptide according to their reaction with the various truncated forms of T antigen expressed by adenovirus-SV 40 hybrid viruses. Sixteen antibodies cross-react with cells infected by the closely related human BK virus. Only two antibodies, PAb1604 and PAb1614, directed against different epitopes of the SV40 T antigen, cross-react with polyoma large T tumour antigen which has a more limited amino acid sequence homology. This cross-reaction is rarely seen with polyclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibody PAb1620 gave nuclear immunofluorescence only with murine cells transformed by SV40 and was found to react with a complex of T-antigen and 53 000-dalton host-coded protein. All the monoclonal antibodies react with nuclear T antigen and all but four antibodies stained the surface of SV40-transformed cells. These were four of the five antibodies directed against the central third of the T antigen. Thus the monoclonal antibodies show that cell surface T antigen differs from nuclear T antigen, either in accessibility or structure.

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