Mechanisms of antibody-mediated protection against lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection: mother-to-baby transfer of humoral protection - PubMed (original) (raw)

Mechanisms of antibody-mediated protection against lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection: mother-to-baby transfer of humoral protection

J R Baldridge et al. J Virol. 1992 Jul.

Abstract

The role of antiviral antibodies in resistance to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection was explored. Immune serum and monoclonal antibodies prevented fatal T-cell-mediated immunopathology following acute LCMV infections. In addition, 10- and 14-day-old mice that received maternally derived anti-LCMV antibodies through nursing were protected from an otherwise lethal LCMV challenge. Detailed investigation of the mechanism(s) by which these antiviral antibodies provided was carried out by using anti-LCMV monoclonal antibodies. Protection correlated directly with the ability of the antibodies to reduce viral titers in the tissues of conventional (K. E. Wright and M. J. Buchmeier, J. Virol. 65:3001-3006, 1991) and nude mice. However, this reduction was not simply a reflection of virus neutralizing activity, since not all antibodies which neutralized in vitro were protective. A correlation was also found between immunoglobulin isotype and protection: all of the protective antibodies were immunoglobulin G2a (IgG2a), while IgG1 antibodies mapping to the same epitopes were not. Protection appeared to be associated with events controlled by the Fc region. Functional F(ab')2 fragments which retained in vitro neutralizing activity were not protective in vivo. Furthermore, this Fc-associated function was not related to complement-mediated cell lysis, since C5-deficient mouse strains were also protected. These results suggest a role for antibody in protection from arenavirus infections and indicate that a distinct immunoglobulin subclass, IgG2a, may be essential for this protection.

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Mechanisms of antibody-mediated protection against lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection: mother-to-baby transfer of humoral protection - PubMed (original) (raw)