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J Clin Microbiol. 1991 March; 29(3): 488-492

Immune response to a major epitope of p24 during infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and implications for diagnosis and prognosis.

Département de Microbiologie Médicale et Moléculaire, URA CNRS 1334, CHRU Bretonneau, Tours, France.

ABSTRACT

A sequential inhibition enzyme-linked immunoassay (SIEIA) using a peroxidase-conjugated monoclonal antibody reacting to the sequence AAEWDRVHP of p24HIV-1 (amino acids 209 to 217 of p55) was developed in order to detect and determine the titer of antibody to this epitope in various populations of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-positive patients. There was a good correlation between SIEIA and a commercially available competition assay that uses recombinant p24 protein and polyclonal antibody to HIV-1 antigen, demonstrating the importance of the described epitope. Analysis of sera from French patients showed a decline of antibody to the AAEWDRVHP sequence associated with the progression of AIDS. No decrease was observed with serum samples from African patients. An immune response to the epitope was detected by SIEIA early in the course of seroconversion. Although our SIEIA uses a single p24 epitope, these data are in accordance with previously published studies in which antibodies to the whole p24 were analyzed. Sera reacting to p24 only (indeterminate profiles by Western blot [immunoblot]) did not bind to AAEWDRVHP. This epitope, which is conserved between HIV-1 and HIV-2/simian immunodeficiency virus, appears to be a major antigenic domain of p24. The area containing the sequence AAEWDRVHP and the corresponding monoclonal antibody may serve as a convenient alternative to whole purified p24 and polyclonal antibody in diagnostic and prognostic assays.

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