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Mosquito-transmitted Sindbis virus (SINV) causes fever, skin lesions and musculoskeletal symptoms if transmitted to man. SINV is the prototype virus of genus , which includes other arthritogenic viruses such as chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Ross River virus (RRV) that cause large epidemics with a considerable public health burden. Until now the human B-cell epitopes have been studied for CHIKV and RRV, but not for SINV. To identify the B-cell epitopes in SINV–infection, we synthetised a library of linear 18-mer peptides covering the structural polyprotein of SINV, and probed it with SINV IgG-positive and IgG-negative serum pools. By comparing the binding profiles of the pools, we identified 15 peptides that were strongly reactive only with the SINV IgG-positive pools. We then utilized alanine scanning and individual (=22) patient sera to further narrow the number of common B-cell epitopes to six. These epitopes locate to the capsid, E2, E1 and to a region in PE2 (uncleaved E3-E2), which may only be present in immature virions. By sequence comparison, we observed that one of the capsid protein epitopes shares six identical amino acids with macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) receptor, which is linked to inflammatory diseases and to molecular pathology of alphaviral arthritides. Our results add to the current understanding on SINV disease and raise questions of a potential role of uncleaved PE2 and the MIF receptor (CD74) mimotope in human SINV infection.

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