Expression, purification, and refolding of a novel immunotoxin containing humanized single-chain fragment variable antibody against CTLA4 and the N-terminal fragment of human perforin |
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Authors: | Wan Lin Zeng Lingyu Chen Lihong Huang Qiang Li Shengfu Lu Yanrong Li Youping Cheng Jingqiu Lu Xiaofeng |
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Institution: | Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Ministry of Health, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China. |
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Abstract: | Immunotoxins might be potential in treatment of cancer for their ability to kill selected cell populations. We constructed a novel immunotoxin hS83P34 by fusing N-terminal 34 amino acid fragment of human perforin to the C-terminus of humanized single-chain fragment variable antibody against CTLA4. The fusion protein was inductively expressed as inclusion bodies at a high level about 30% of total bacterial proteins. After washing with buffer containing 2 M urea, the purity of inclusion body was about 71%. The washed inclusion bodies were solubilized in 8 M urea and further purified to homogeneity (approximately 92% purity) by cation-exchange chromatography and Ni-agarose affinity chromatography under denaturing condition. The inclusion body refolding conditions were optimized following Pro-Matrix Protein Refolding Guide. After refolded in Tris buffer (pH 8.0) containing 1M urea, 0.8 M l-arginine, and 2 mM GSH:0.2 mM GSSG or 2 mM GSH:0.4 mM GSSG for 18h at 4 degrees C, over 90% proteins were recovered from inclusion bodies. In vitro dose-dependent cytotoxicity assay demonstrates that hS83P34 is only toxic to CTLA4-positive cells. IC(50) of hS83P34 for leukemic cells Raji and 6T-CEM are about 0.85 and 1.3 microM individually. Whereas, CTLA4-negative endothelial cell ECV-304 is resistant to hS83P34. |
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Keywords: | Inclusion body In vitro refolding Immunotoxin Single-chain fragment of variable antibody Cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated Antigen 4 |
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