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Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 linear epitopes that are reactive with immunoglobulin A (IgA) or IgG in sera from nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients or from healthy donors.

Department of Virology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

ABSTRACT

The entire amino acid sequence of the unique region of the EBNA 1 protein was synthesized as a set of 41 20-residue peptides with an overlap of 10 amino acids. The peptides were tested in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for reactivity with immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG in sera from 50 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) as compared with 36 serum samples from healthy Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-seropositive donors and 5 serum samples from EBV-negative donors. The most immunoreactive peptide for both IgA and IgG binding was localized to the glycine-alanine repeat domain of the antigen. In the unique regions, 16 immunoreactive peptides were found. Of these, four were reactive with IgG but not IgA and three peptides were reactive with IgA but not IgG in NPC sera. In addition, several IgA and IgG epitopes on the carboxy-terminal region were specifically reactive with NPC sera, but unreactive with sera from healthy EBV-positive donors. The results suggest that EBV serology specific for individual epitopes may provide additional useful information not available by conventional serology with whole antigens or the EBNA complex.

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