Part of the inspiration for pursuing domain antibodies was the natural domain antibodies found in camels, dromedaries, llamas — and sharks. These natural antibodies are also being explored for their potential applications by start-up biopharmaceutical company Ablynx of Zwijnaarde, Belgium. Both Abgenix of Fremont, California, and Medarex of Princeton, New Jersey, take a different approach to making large numbers of different human antibodies for screening — they get mice to do it for them.
When challenged by a foreign protein, these mice produce fully human, functional antibodies. One is the HuMAb-Mouse. This is a transchromosomal mouse containing the megabase segment of human chromosome 14 that contains all the genes needed to build human antibodies.
Using this technology, Medarex has generated 15 antibodies that are currently in clinical trials, while Abgenix has two in its own pipeline and others being developed by Pfizer and Amgen. Whether you use a phage or mouse system can be influenced by what you are trying to achieve. In those circumstances, in vitro phage-based systems offer a good way forward.
On the other hand, say the owners of engineered mice, phage libraries can only display antibodies that do not kill bacteria. Despite a preference for human antibodies in the clinic, they are not the first choice in other settings. Monoclonal antibody technology started with mouse antibodies, and many people argue that mice are still in the driving seat. Milstein believed there would be a niche for all types of antibodies. And some of those niches are huge. For when antibodies are being used as detection reagents in the laboratory, there is no need for expensive high-tech human antibodies. Rat, mouse and hamster monoclonal antibodies derived by well-established hybridoma technology, as well as polyclonal antibodies raised by immunizing larger animals, are the mainstay of laboratory immunoassays and immunodetection techniques such as ELISA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and its variant ELISpot, western blotting, flow cytometry and immunofluorescent staining of cells and tissues.
These are available for a range of human, mouse and monkey immune-system cytokines and other proteins.
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Arrays of hundreds of antibodies are also currently the basis for the up-and-coming field of 'protein chips', the proteomics equivalent of DNA microarrays see Nature , —; Interest doesn't stop at antibodies against human and mouse proteins for biomedical research. BD Biosciences Pharmingen has thought it worthwhile to screen its large catalogue of mouse monoclonal antibodies to human intracellular structural and signalling proteins for good crossreactivity against the homologous Drosophila proteins. It now offers a list of about 25 high-quality monoclonal antibodies selected to give good results in Drosophila , and is adding more.
This wide array of laboratory reagents may soon be joined by a useful molecule that combines the binding specificity of an antibody with built-in fluorescence. These 'fluorobodies' would circumvent the need to add fluorescent tags to conventional antibodies. Fluorobodies consist of a super-folding version of green fluorescent protein GFP with the minimal antigen-binding portions of antibodies, conferring the specific protein-binding ability, grafted into four loops at one end of the GFP.
They function as well as conventional antibodies in ELISAs, gel-shift assays, protein chip and flow cytometry assays — and without the need for secondary antibodies to provide a signal. But despite the prospect of novel reagents such as fluorobodies and intrabodies, polyclonal antibodies raised in the traditional way by immunizing animals are still in demand, even for the latest protein array technologies. For example, using high-throughput techniques, Eurogentec in Seraing, Belgium, will take a customer's mRNA library and produce peptides representing different parts of the encoded proteins.
Polyclonal antibodies specific for each peptide are then raised in rabbits. After selection to reduce the chance of crossreactions, the antibodies are spotted onto glass slides to produce a customized array of up to 1, antibody specificities, which can be used to screen and compare tissue samples for the differential expression of multiple proteins.
The approach is intended to complement the ELISA, which screens a single antibody against multiple cell or tissue samples, according to chief executive Gottfried Proess. This is thanks to the development of automated high-throughput immunohistochemistry of intact normal or diseased tissue samples. Labelled antibodies are used to stain tissues to identify the expression of particular proteins.
As a senior project leader for John McCafferty's 'Atlas of Gene Expression' at the Sanger Institute, Warford, is pioneering the linking together of automated immunohistochemistry techniques. By applying phage-produced monoclonal antibodies as probes to composite microarrays of tissue samples, he can see which proteins are expressed, when and where, in a given cell and tissue type. The tissue microarrays, which are created using automated technology from Beecher Instruments in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and Chemicon in Ternecula, California, consist of paraffin wax-embedded blocks of human or animal tissues containing up to individual mini-tissue samples each about 0.
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