Abstract
The aim of this work was to obtain the panel of recombinant single-chain Fv-antibodies against diphtheria toxin B subunit, the main diagnostic and pathogenic antigen of Corynebacterium diph-theriae. For this purpose we have constructed the immune library of murine immunoglobulin genes.A number of scFv specific to diphtheria toxin B subunit were acquired from the obtained library after one round of selection by phage-display. ScFv encoding DNA-fragments of eight clones were subcloned into plasmid pET-22b(+). It was shown that selected scFv were highly specific to diphtheria toxin B subunit, with affinity constant for different clones ranged from 10 7 to 10 9 M -1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 68-79 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Ukrain'skyi Biokhimichnyi Zhurnal |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - Jul 7 2009 |
Keywords
- Diphtheria toxin
- Library of immunoglobulin genes
- Phage display
- Scfv
- Single chain antibodies
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry