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Isolation of anti-angiogenesis antibodies from a large combinatorial repertoire by colony filter screening

Giovannoni, Leonardo ; Viti, Francesca ; Zardi, Luciano ; Neri, Dario

In: Nucleic Acids Research, 2001, vol. 29, no. 5, p. e27-e27

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    Titre
    • Isolation of anti-angiogenesis antibodies from a large combinatorial repertoire by colony filter screening
    Auteur
    • Giovannoni, Leonardo
    • Viti, Francesca. Philogen S.R.L., Piazza La Lizza 7, 53100 Siena, Italy, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland and Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Rosanna Benzi 10, 16132 Genova, Italy
    • Zardi, Luciano. Philogen S.R.L., Piazza La Lizza 7, 53100 Siena, Italy, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland and Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Rosanna Benzi 10, 16132 Genova, Italy
    • Neri, Dario. Philogen S.R.L., Piazza La Lizza 7, 53100 Siena, Italy, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland and Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Rosanna Benzi 10, 16132 Genova, Italy
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Nucleic Acids Research, 2001, vol. 29, no. 5, p. e27-e27. Oxford University Press
    Autre version électronique
    Classification
    • Santé
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:294721
    Summary
    We describe here a method, based on iterative colony filter screening, for the rapid isolation of binding specificities from a large synthetic repertoire of human antibody fragments in single-chain Fv configuration. Escherichia coli cells, expressing the library of antibody fragments, are grown on a porous master filter, in contact with a second filter coated with the antigen, onto which antibodies secreted by the bacteria are able to diffuse. Detection of antigen binding on the second filter allows the recovery of a number of E.coli cells, including those expressing the binding specificity of interest, which can be submitted to a second round of screening for the isolation of specific monoclonal antibodies. We tested the methodology using as antigen the ED-B domain of fibronectin, a marker of angiogenesis. From an antibody library of 7 × 108 clones, we recovered a number of specifically-binding antibodies of different aminoacid sequence. The antibody clone showing the strongest enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay signal (ME4C) was further characterised. Its epitope on the ED-B domain was mapped using the SPOT synthesis method, which uses a set of decapeptides spanning the antigen sequence synthesised and anchored on cellulose. ME4C binds to the ED-B domain with a dissociation constant Kd = 1 × 10-7 M and specifically stains tumour blood vessels, as shown by immunohistochemical analysis on tumour sections of human and murine origin