Article
Carrier-specificity of a phosphorylcholine-binding antibody requires the presence of the constant domains and is not dependent on the unique VH49 glycine or VH30 threonine residues.
Journal of immunological methods - 10 Apr 2007
Tam Frankie C H, Ma Chun Hung, Leung Danny T M, Sutton Brian, Lim Pak-Leong
Abstract excerpt
Bacterially-produced antibody fragments, such as single-chain Fv (scFv) which comprises the variable regions of the light (VL) and heavy (VH) chains joined together by a short flexible linker, are useful as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. We previously constructed a scFv fragment from a hybridoma antibody (Mab2) but it unexpectedly lacked the unique carrier specificity of the native antibody. Thus, it bound...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Helminth
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigens, Helminth
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Glycine
- Haptens
- Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation