Antibody-free detection of influenza viruses on a microarray to study their receptor specificity
摘要
A convenient tool for identifying glycan receptors of new influenza virus strains is the PGA (printed glycan array), which contains up to a hundred sialoglycans. However, antigen diversity and drift complicate the detection of the virus bound to PGA by antibodies, since, generally speaking, new strain is needed for a new antibody. In this work, the bound virus was visualized on PGA using labeled sialopolymers, namely Neu5Acα2-3Galβ1-4GlcNAcβ-PAA-biotin (for avian viruses) or Neu5Acα2-6Galβ1-4GlcNAcβ-PAA-biotin (for human viruses), where PAA is soluble polyacrylamide. Detection of strains H6N1(Sarma/51c/2006), H7N1(FPV/Rostock/2007) and B19 (Moscow/19/2013) was routinely performed at a level of 16 hemagglutination units.