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The mature virions of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), a new porcine arterivirus, is made of three major structural proteins: a 25 kDa envelope glycoprotein (GP5), an 18-19 kDa unglyco-sylated membrane protein (M), and a 15 kDa nucleocapsid (N) protein (Mardassi et al., 1995; Meulenberg et al., 1995). The N protein is the more abundant protein of the virion and is highly antigenic, which therefore makes it a suitable candidate for the detection of virus-specific antibodies and diagnosis of the disease (Loemba et al, 1996). It is also encoded by a relatively well conserved region of the viral genome, since a high degree of amino acid (aa) sequence identity has been observed among the N protein of North American (96-100%) and European (94-99%) strains (Meng et al., 1995; Suarez et al., 1994). Four to five domains of antigenic importance have been identified for the N protein, a common conformational antigenic site for European and North American strains being localized in the central region of the protein (Meulenberg et al., 1998; Wootton et al., 1998).
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Dea, S., Wilson, L., Therrien, D., Cornaglia, E. (2001). Detection of Antibodies to the Nucleocapsid Protein of PRRS Virus by a Competitive ELISA. In: Lavi, E., Weiss, S.R., Hingley, S.T. (eds) The Nidoviruses. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 494. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1325-4_59
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