Produção e caracterização da porção Fab do anticorpo anti-digoxina utilizando a tecnologia de phage display. / Production and characterization of the Fab portion of anti-digoxin antibody by phage display technology.

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

27/03/2012

RESUMO

Digoxin is a pharmaceutical used in the control of cardiac dysfunction. Its therapeutic window is very narrow. To counteract the toxic effect, polyclonal anti-digoxin Fab fragments are commercially available. Our goal was to obtain variants of monoclonal anti-digoxin Fab fragments by phage display technology, which allows the generation of high affinity and specificity antibody fragments. Anti-digoxin Fab fragments combinatorial library was constructed into pComb3X vector from total RNA of anti-digoxin hybridoma. Six clones were isolated and the heavy chain presented the same sequence. For the light chain, 2 clones were identical, one was a pseudogene and other one presented a distinct amino acid in the CDR2. Four clones presenting variations in the framework 1 were induced to express soluble Fab fragments, all positive for anti-digoxin binding in ELISA assays and Western blotting. The specific binding of the antibody was further confirmed by BIAcore, which allowed ranking of the clones.

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anticorpos monoclonais cardiovascular system clonagem cloning digoxin digoxina drugs fármacos hibridomas hybridomas monoclonal antibodies sistema cardiovascular

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