A competitive radioimmunoassay was developed capable of measuring less than 5 ng of measles virus nucleocapsids in infected cells.
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May enable low-level nucleocapsid quantification in research; leaves open clinical diagnostic translation.
Nucleocapsids in quantities approaching 1 mg were purified from 109 measles virus-infected cells. They contained one polypeptide species with a molecular weight of 59,000. Antiserum was raised in rabbits against purified nucleocapsids and used in a competitive radioimmunoassay. Because of their instability, purified nucleocapsids were not suitable for use in such an assay. Instead partially purified nucleocapsids from HEp-2 cells persistently infected with measles virus and labeled in vitro with [35S]methionine were used as the source of radioactive antigen. The radioimmunoassay thus developed measured less than 5 ng of nucleocapsids in infected cells.
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Moore et al. (1978) studied this question.
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