Mammalian cell culture technology has improved so rapidly over the last few years that it is now commonplace to produce multi-kilogram quantities of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in a single batch. Purification processes need to be scaled-up to match the improved upstream productivity. In this chapter key practical issues and approaches to the scale-up of monoclonal antibody purification pr...

pr81 is a monoclonal antibody that binds with high affinity to muc1 that over expressed on breast tumors. pr81 is considered a suitable targeting molecule that was radiolabeled using cu-64 for positron imaging studies. the monoclonal antibody was conjugated with dota moiety and after purification was evaluated for radiochemical purity, immunoreactivity, cell toxicity and structure integrity as ...

Introduction: In immuno-electron microscopy, electron-dense labels are required to permit localisation of the bound antibody molecules. One of the most successful is ferritin [1-3]. If conjugated antibody is present in the immunolabelling mixture, it must have the effect of diminishing sensitivity, perhaps critically, by competing for the antigenic sites. Therefore, it is important to remove fr...

A purification process for the monoclonal anti-CD4 antibody MAX.16H5 was developed on an analytical scale using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, anion-exchange chromatography on MonoQ or Q-Sepharose, hydrophobic interaction chromatography on phenyl-Sepharose and gel filtration chromatography on Superdex 200. The purification schedule was scaled up and gram amounts of MAX.16H5 were produced on correspon...

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Among the molds causing allergy, Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) constituted a major species present both indoors and outdoors. The antigens both secreted and bound to hyphae and conidia have been isolated for immunodiagnosis of allergic aspergillosis. The crude extracts have been used to demonstrate IgE antibody in vitro and for skin testing. The crude extracts contain many antigenic and non-antige...

Background: Staphylococcal protein A (SPA) is a cell wall component of Staphylococcus aureus that binds to different IgG subclasses of human and several animal species. This bacterial protein can be used as an antibody detector in various immunological assays or as an isolation reagent for the purification of antibody molecules via immuno-chromatography procedures.Objectives: Molecular cl...

Objective(s): We previously conducted an in silico research on the interactions between the ribosome display-selected single chain variable fragment (scFv) and factor H binding protein (fHbp) of Neisseria meningitidis. We found that heavy chain variable (VH) fragment of this scFv had considerable affinity to fHbp. These results led us to evaluate the ability of this sm...