Expressão, purificação e caracterização da proteína capsidial de Cowpea mild mottle virus e suas aplicações na detecção viral

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Silvia Leão de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4405
• topic: Produção de antissoro; Cowpea mild mottle virus; Carlavírus; Production of antiserum; Cowpea mild mottle virus; Carlavirus; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOSSANIDADE::FITOPATOLOGIA

Cowpea mild mottle virus (CpMMV), the causal agent of stem necrosis disease, has drawn attention of soybean producers in recent years due to productivity losses in the main producing regions of Brazil. The disease was first recorded in the Midwest region of Brazil in the 2000/01 soybean season and rapidly spread throughout the country in the following years. CpMMV is usually hard to diagnose due to its wide range of symptoms while the occurrence of asymptomatic soybean cultivars complicates genotypic selection in breeding programs. Serological methods for viral detection require the use of an antiserum of good quality to achieve specificity and sensitivity. The entire coat protein sequence of a Brazilian CpMMV isolate was cloned into a bacterial expression vector and transformed into Escherichia coli BL21::DE3 for in vitro expression. The coat protein, fused to a 6 His-tag, was purified under denaturing conditions by affinity chromatography using a Ni-NTA resin. After renaturation, the integrity and identity of purified recombinant protein was confirmed by SDS-Page and MALDI-ToF/Tof mass spectrometer analyses. New Zealand rabbits were immunized with increasing amounts of the recombinant protein. The specificity and sensitivity of the antisera was shown by Western blot and indirect ELISA assays. The polyclonal antisera raised against recombinant coat protein proved to be a reliable tool for CpMMV detection.