A novel subtractive antibody phage display method to discover disease markers |
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Authors: | Hof Daniëlle Cheung Kalok Roossien Hilde E Pruijn Ger J M Raats Jos M H |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. |
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Abstract: | Today's research demands fast identification of potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets. We describe a novel phage display strategy to identify disease-related proteins that are specifically expressed in a certain (diseased) tissue or cells. Phages displaying antibody fragments are selected on complex protein mixtures in a two-step manner combining subtractive selection in solution with further enrichment of specific phages on two-dimensional Western blots. Targets recognized by the resulting recombinant antibodies are immunoaffinity-purified and identified by mass spectrometry. We used antibody fragment libraries from autoimmune patients to discover apoptosis-specific and disease-related targets. One of the three identified targets is the U1-70K protein, a marker for systemic lupus erythematosus overlap disease. Interestingly the epitope on U1-70K recognized by the selected recombinant antibody was shown to be apoptosis-dependent, and such epitopes are believed to be involved in breaking tolerance to self-antigens. The other two proteins were identified as polypyrimidine tract-binding protein-associated splicing factor (PSF)/nuclear RNA- and DNA-binding protein of 54 kDa (p54nrb) and heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein C. |
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