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Methed for the Passaging of Microcarrier Cultures to a Production Scale for Producing High Titre Disabled Infectious Single Cycle-Herpes Simplex virus Type-2

  • Zecchini, Tracey-Ann;Wright, Paul-Andrew;Smith, Rodney-John
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.118-122
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    • 2000
  • A comlementary call line CR2 is curretly used to propagte the Disabled Infectious Single Cycle Herpes Simplex Virus Typee2 (DISC HSV-2) on a small Iaboratory scale upto 15 L. These cultures are initiated by passaging the cells from roller bottle cultures. Whilst this is suitable for the laboratory scale it is totally impractical for use in seeding an industrial manufacturing scaled version of the culture. It is paramount to have a robust system for passaging cells from a small microcarrierier culture system to a larger one by a serial subculturing regime. Here we report on the successes we have had in our laboratory in scaling up out production system for the DISC HSV-2 from small 1-L cultures to a 50-L vessel with the maintenance of the viral productivity. Ease of use, reproducibility and the need to minimise overall production time were factors which were taken into consideration whils developing our procedures. We were aware of the need to keep a production train simple and as short as possible as this was the amall scale study for an envisaged manufacturing process.

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Comparison of Spatial Neurocognitive Function between Insomnia Disorder Patients and Normal Sleeping Control : Pilot Study (불면장애 환자와 정상대조군간의 공간인지기능 비교 : 예비연구)

  • Kang, Suk-Ho;Kang, Jae Myeong;Na, Kyoung-Sae;Koh, Seung-Hee;Cho, Seong-Jin;Kang, Seung-Gul
    • Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: Chronic insomnia disorder is a common and one of the most distressing sleep disorders. This pilot study was conducted to compare the spatial function between insomnia disorder patients and good sleeping control. Methods: We enrolled the 22 patients with chronic insomnia during over one year who met the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria of insomnia disorder and 27 normal sleeping controls. The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) has been performed to compare the spatial cognitive function between insomnia disorder patients and good sleeping controls. Results: The CANTAB results showed significant differences in the problems solved in minimum moves of Stockings of Cambridge test (t = -2.499, p = 0.017). The significant difference between two groups remained after controlling age, sex, and Beck Depression Index non-sleep scores (F = 5.631, p = 0.022). Conclusion: This study suggests that the patients with insomnia disorder have poor spatial planning function.

Isolation and Characterization of Human scFv Molecules Specific for Recombinant Human Heat Shock Protein (HSP) 70.1

  • Baek, Hyun-jung;Lee, Jae-seon;Seo, Jeong-sun;Cha, Sang-hoon
    • IMMUNE NETWORK
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2004
  • Background: The heat shock proteins (HSPs) play an important role in cellular protection mechanisms against physical or chemical stresses. In this study scFv antibodies specific for human HSP70.1 were isolated from a semi-synthetic human scFv library with the ultimate goal of developing anti-HSP70.1 intracellular antibody (intrabody) that may offer an attractive alternative to gene targeting to study the function of the protein in cells. Methods: A semi-synthetic human scFv display library ($5{\times}10^{8}$ size) was constructed using pCANTAB-5E vector and the selection of the library against bacterially expressed recombinant human HSP70.1 was attempted by panning. Results: Three positive clones specific for recombinant HSP70.1 were identified. All three clones used $V_{H}$ subgroup III. On the other hand, $V_{L}$ of two clones belonged to the kappa light chain subgroup I, but the other utilized $V_{k}$ subgroup IV Interestingly, these scFv molecules specifically reacted to the recombinant HSP70.1, yet failed to recognize native HSP70 induced in U937 human monocytic cells by heat treatment. Conclusion: Our results indicated that affinity selection of an scFv phage display library using recombinant antigens produced in E. coli might not guarantee the isolation of scFv antibody molecules specific for a native form of the antigen. Therefore, the source of target antigens needs to be chosen carefully in order to isolate biofunctional antibody molecules.

Expression of a Functional Anti-Cucumber Mosaic Virus Single-Chain Variable Fragment Antibody in Tobacco Plants (Nacotiana tabacum)

  • Heng Chua Kek;Khalid Norzulaani;Othman Retina Yasmin
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2006
  • As an alternative method to produce low cost reagents for immunodiagnosis and protect the plants from viral disease, a gene encoding a single chain variable fragment(scFv) recombinant antibody targeted to the coat protein of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) was expressed in Nacotiana tabacum. The source of the scFv recombinant antibody gene was from spleen tissue of an immunized mouse. The gene was initially cloned into the pCANTAB5E phagemid and expressed in E. coli. In the following study, the antibody gene was subcloned into the plant expression vector, pCAMBIA-1301 and introduced into tobacco leaf tissue via Agrobacterium tumefacients mediated transformation. After transformation, 56 out of 58 plants were shown to carry the desired anti-CMV scFv gene by PCR analysis. Overall, only 12.5% of the 56 putative transgenic plants were found to express the antibody to a detectable level.

Isolation and Characterization of Single-Chain Fv Against Ductal Cells

  • Lee Myung-Hoon;Ryu Hye-Myung;Kim Sun-Zoo;Park Ji-Young;Uhm Ji-Hyun;Park Tae-In
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.211-217
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    • 2004
  • For discrimination of ductal and ascinar cells, we isolated a single-chain variable domain fragment (scFv) antibody against ductal cells of salivary gland using phage display technique. From the spleen of a mouse immunized with ductal cell lysate, total RNA was prepared and used as a template for cDNA synthesis of antibody genes. The scFv genes were constructed with variable domain genes of heavy and light chain and were introduced into pCANTAB5E to construct phage scFv library. The phage particles specific for acinar cells were screened by subtraction using immunotubes coated with acinar and ductal cell lysate and enzyme-linked immunoabsorbance assay (ELISA). The characteristics of the scFv were determined by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and the result indicated that the isolated scFv has the specificity against ductal cells of salivary glands and tubules of kidney. And the scFv has an unique binding activity specific for Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The nucleotide sequence of isolated scFv gene was determined and revealed that V/sub H/ belongs to the mouse H-chain family subgroup IB and V/sub L/ to the mouse L-chain family subgroup III.

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Expression of the Recombinant Single-Chain Anti-B Cell Lymphoma Antibody

  • Park, Tae-Hyun;Park, Chang-Woon;Awh, Ok-Doo;Lim, Sang-Moo
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2003
  • Recombinant single chain Fv (scFv) antibodies offer many advantages over mouse monoclonal antibodies such as faster clearance from blood, improved tumor localization, reduced human anti-mouse antibody (HAMA) response, and the availability to manipulate the scFv through genetic approaches. The recombinant phage display was constructed using lym-l hybridoma cells as a source of genetic starting material. mRNA was isolated from the corresponding antibodies hybridoma cells. VH and VL cDNA were amplified with RT-PCR and linked with ScFv by linker DNA to form ScFv DNA, which then were inserted into phagemid pCANTAB5E. The phage of positive clones selected with tube containing raji lymphoma cell and infected by competent E. coli HB2151 to express soluble scFv. The scFv lym-l was secreted into the cytosol and culture supernatant and shown to be of expected size (approximately 32 kDa) by western blot. An active scFv lym-l could be produced in E. coli with soluble form and high yield from hybridoma cell line, using phage display system. Immunoreactivity indicated that scFv lym1 showed a potential biding affinity against the raji lymphoma cell as its parental antibody (intact lym-l Ab).

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Isolation of Human scFv Antibodies Specific for House Dust Mite Antigens from an Asthma Patient by Using a Phage Display Library

  • Jung, Wang-lim;Lee, Hee-kyung;Yong, Tae-soon;Cha, Sang-hoon
    • IMMUNE NETWORK
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.91-95
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    • 2002
  • Background: In order to characterize human antibodies with specificity for mite allergens at the molecular level, a scFv phage display library was constructed using peripheral blood mononuclear lymphocytes from an asthma patient allergic to mite as Ig gene sources. Methods: Immunoglobulin $V_H$ and V gene fragments were obtained by polymerase chain reaction, and randomly combined in pCANTAB-5E vector. The resulting human scFv phage display library had $3{\times}10^4$ independent clones, and biopanning was performed with house dust mite extracts. Results: Four scFv clones specific for house dust mite extract were isolated. Immunoblot assay showed that our clones reacted to 25 kDa and 50~60 kDa proteins with unknown identity in mite extracts. Sequence analysis indicated that two clones (b7 and c15) are identical, and all clones belong to human $V_H3$ subgroup. On the other hand, light chain usage was different in that two clones (a2 and b7 / c15) belonging to V ${\kappa}4$ subgroup, but a4 used V ${\kappa}1$ light chain gene. Conclusion: Our approach should facilitate provision of useful information on the antibody responses against allergens at the molecular level in humans.