scholarly journals Semi-Automated Cell Panning for Efficient Isolation of FGFR3-Targeting Antibody

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 6240
Author(s):  
Byeongkwi Min ◽  
Minyoung Yoo ◽  
Hyeree Kim ◽  
Minjung Cho ◽  
Do-Hyun Nam ◽  
...  

Phage display technology is a widely used practical tool for isolating binding molecules against the desired targets in phage libraries. In the case of targeting the membrane protein with its natural conformation, conventional bio-panning has limitations on the efficient screening of the functionally relevant antibodies. To enrich the single-chain variable fragment (scFv) pools for recognizing the natural conformation of the membrane targets, the conventional bio-panning and screening process was modified to include the semi-automated cell panning protocol. Using FGFR3-overexpressing patient-derived cancer cells, biotin-X-DHPE was introduced and coupled to Streptavidin-coated magnetic beads for use in the solution-phage bio-panning procedure. The resulting clones of scFv were compared to the diversity of the binding region, especially on CDR-H3. The clones enriched further by cell-based panning procedure possessed a similar binding site and the CDR-H3 loop structure. The resulting antibodies inhibited cell growth and induced target degradation. This process may be a useful tool for screening biologically related antibodies that recognize natural conformational structure on cell membrane protein. Furthermore, cell-based panning has the potential to further expand to a high-throughput screening (HTS) system and automation process.

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 562-572
Author(s):  
A. N. Chikaev ◽  
A. P. Rudometov ◽  
Yu. A. Merkulyeva ◽  
L. I. Karpenko

Combinatorial biology methods offer a good solution for targeting interactions of specific molecules by a high-throughput screening and are widely used for drug development, diagnostics, identification of novel monoclonal antibodies, search for linear peptide mimetics of discontinuous epitopes for the development of immunogens or vaccine components. Among all currently available techniques, phage display remains one of the most popular approaches. Despite being a fairly old method, phage display is still widely used for studying protein-protein, peptide-protein and DNA-protein interactions due to its relative simplicity and versatility. Phage display allows highly representative libraries of peptides, proteins or their fragments to be created. Each phage particle in a library displays peptides or proteins fused to its coat protein and simultaneously carries the DNA sequence encoding the displayed peptide/protein in its genome. The biopanning procedure allows isolation of specific clones for almost any target, and due to the physical link between the genotype and the phenotype of recombinant phage particles it is possible to determine the structure of selected molecules. Phage display technology continues to play an important role in HIV research. A major obstacle to the development of an effective HIV vaccine is an extensive genetic and antigenic variability of the virus. According to recent data, in order to provide protection against HIV infection, the so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies that are cross-reactive against multiple viral strains of HIV must be induced, which makes the identification of such antibodies a key area of HIV vaccinology. In this review, we discuss the use of phage display as a tool for identification of HIV-specific antibodies with broad neutralizing activity. We provide an outline of phage display technology, briefly describe the design of antibody phage libraries and the affinity selection procedure, and discuss the biology of HIV-1-specific broadly neutralizing antibodies. Finally, we summarize the studies aimed at identification of broadly neutralizing antibodies using various types of phage libraries.


2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 3915
Author(s):  
Greice Japolla ◽  
Ana Flávia Batista Penido ◽  
Greyciele Rodrigues Almeida ◽  
Luiz Artur Mendes Bataus ◽  
Jair Pereira Cunha Junior ◽  
...  

The specificity of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to desired targets makes these molecules suitable for therapeutic and diagnostic uses against a wide range of pathogens. Phage display antibody libraries offer one method by which mAbs can be selected for, without the use of conventional hybridoma technology. In this work, phage display technology was used to construct, select and characterize a combinatorial single chain fragment variable (scFv) antibody library against bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) from the immune repertoire of chickens immunized with the virus. In silico analysis of the hypervariable domains of the antibody heavy chains revealed a high frequency of scFv fragments with low variability, suggesting that selection had probably been carried out and favored by a few im-munogenic viral antigens. The reactivity of the scFv fragments selected against BoHV-1 was demon-strated by Phage-ELISA. A significant increase in antibody reactivity to the target was observed after six rounds of library selection, showing its potential use as a molecule for BoHV-1 diagnosis. The strategy described here opens up a field for the use of phage display as a tool for selection of mono-clonal antibodies that could be used for theranostic applications against infectious and parasitic dis-eases of veterinary interest.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fairhead ◽  
Charlotta Preger ◽  
Edvard Wigren ◽  
Claire Strain-Damerell ◽  
Elena Ossipova ◽  
...  

AbstractAntibody fragments have great potential as crystallization chaperones for structural biology due to their ability to either stabilise targets, trap certain conformations and/or promote crystal packing. Here we present an example of using a single-chain variable fragment (scFv) to determine the previously unsolved structure of the multidomain protein SP140. This nuclear leukocyte-specific protein contains domains related to chromatin-mediated gene expression and has been implicated in various disease states. The structure of two of the domains (PHD-bromodomain) was solved by crystallizing them as a complex with a scFv generated by phage display technology. SP140 maintains a similar overall fold to previous PHD-bromodomains and the scFv CDR loops predominately interact with the PHD, while the framework regions of the scFv makes numerous interactions with the bromodomain. Analysis of our and other complex structures suggest various protein engineering strategies that might be employed to improve the usefulness of scFvs as crystallization chaperones.


Diabetes ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 2324-2334 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ueberberg ◽  
J. J. Meier ◽  
C. Waengler ◽  
W. Schechinger ◽  
J. W. Dietrich ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (26) ◽  
pp. 15682-15686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Tang ◽  
Ning Jiang ◽  
Cushrow Parakh ◽  
Donald Hilvert

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