Antibodies for the coat protein of cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus Detect Commelina sp. as an Intermediary Host for Cotton Blue Disease.

• Autor(a) principal: HOFFMANN, L. V.
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: BRANQUINHO, A. A., BARROSO, P. A. V., VASLIN, M. F. S.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1144832
• topic: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); CLRDV; Intermediary host; Vírus; Serology

The cotton blue disease, caused by the cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV), leads to dwarfism, leaf rolling, and production loss in susceptible cotton varieties. To develop an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test to detect the virus in cotton and weeds, peptides based on the coat protein were used to produce polyclonal (a-GQE, a-PRN, and a-INK) and monoclonal (a-GQE, a-PRN, and a-NKF) antibodies. All six were tested as capture antibodies, and polyclonal a-GQE and the monocle onal a-NKF were labeled with the enzyme alkaline phosphatase and used as detection antibodies for a double antibody sandwich (DAS) ELISA method, in which p-nitrophenyl phosphate was added and measured by absorbance at 405 nm. The DAS-ELISA sandwich was efficient in discriminating between healthy and diseased plant extracts. The ELISA methodology detected the virus in the weeds Commelina sp., which was confirmed by RT-PCR. The monoclonal antibodies may be used to develop other diagnostic procedures.