The present disclosure is directed to antibodies binding to and neutralizing Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV) and methods for use thereof.

Provided are high affinity anti-alphavirus antibody or alphavirus-binding fragment thereof, as well as methods of use and devices employing such antibodies and/or fragments.

Disclosed are a fusion antigen of porcine Getah virus (GETV), a kit, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The fusion antigen of the GETV is primarily prepared by recombining a Gaussia luciferase (GLuc) gene with a codon-optimized GETV E2 antigen gene to construct an expression vector, and transfecting the expression vector containing GLuc-E2 into mammalian cell lines, resulting in the secretion of GLuc-E2 proteins into a cell supernatant for expression. Without the need for protein purification step, the cell supernatant may be directly collected for disease detection. The present disclosure demonstrates strong specificity and shows no cross-reactivity with African swine fever virus (ASFV), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), pseudorabies virus (PRV), or Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV).

Provided are a fusion antigen of porcine Getah virus (GETV), a kit, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The fusion antigen of the GETV is primarily prepared by recombining a Gaussia luciferase (GLuc) gene with a codon- optimized GETV E2 antigen gene to construct an expression vector, and transfecting the expression vector containing GLuc-E2 into mammalian cell lines, resulting in the secretion of GLuc-E2 proteins into a cell supernatant for expression. Without the need for protein purification step, the cell supernatant may be directly collected for disease detection. The present disclosure demonstrates strong specificity and shows no cross- reactivity with African swine fever virus (ASFV), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), pseudorabies virus (PRV), or Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV).

The present invention includes compositions, including epitope megapools, and methods for detecting the presence of: an Alphavirus or an immune response relevant to an Alphavirus infection including T cells responsive to one or more Alphavirus peptides or proteins comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: one or more amino acid sequences selected from any sequence set forth in Table 1 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 150), or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative thereof; a fusion protein; a pool of 2 or more peptides; a polynucleotide that encodes one or more peptides or proteins. The invention further provides vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, and kits, comprising such proteins or peptides.

Proteases of Group IV (+)ssRNA viruses were found to act on a human sequences in addition to the viral sequences. The identity of the cleavable human sequences is disclosed. Detection of these sequences can act as a diagnostic of infection. It is contemplated that these findings could be employed to facilitate post-translational silencing at the level of protein (e.g., removal of existing proteins), thus serving as a protein analog to CRISPR/Cas9 and RNAi/RISC, and further to enable sequence-specific silencing of host functions without the modification of the host genome.