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Pairing Alpaca and Llama-Derived Single Domain Antibodies to Enhance Immunoassays for Ricin.


ABSTRACT: Previously, our group isolated and evaluated anti-ricin single domain antibodies (sdAbs) derived from llamas, engineered them to further increase their thermal stability, and utilized them for the development of sensitive immunoassays. In work focused on the development of therapeutics, Vance et al. 2013 described anti-ricin sdAbs derived from alpacas. Herein, we evaluated the utility of selected alpaca-derived anti-ricin sdAbs for detection applications, and engineered an alpaca-derived sdAb to increase its melting temperature, providing a highly thermal stable reagent for use in ricin detection. Four of the alpaca-derived anti-ricin A-chain sdAbs were produced and characterized. All four bound to epitopes that overlapped with our previously described llama sdAbs. One alpaca sdAb, F6, was found to possess both a high melting temperature (73 °C) and to work optimally with a thermally stable llama anti-ricin sdAb in sandwich assays for ricin detection. We employed a combination of consensus sequence mutagenesis and the addition of a non-canonical disulfide bond to further enhance the thermal stability of F6 to 85 °C. It is advantageous to have a choice of recognition reagents when developing assays. This work resulted in defining an additional pair of highly thermal stable sdAbs for the sensitive detection of ricin.

SUBMITTER: Turner KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6698814 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Pairing Alpaca and Llama-Derived Single Domain Antibodies to Enhance Immunoassays for Ricin.

Turner Kendrick B KB   Hardy Sabrina S   Liu Jinny L JL   Zabetakis Dan D   Lee P Audrey Brozozog PAB   Goldman Ellen R ER   Anderson George P GP  

Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) 20170202 1


Previously, our group isolated and evaluated anti-ricin single domain antibodies (sdAbs) derived from llamas, engineered them to further increase their thermal stability, and utilized them for the development of sensitive immunoassays. In work focused on the development of therapeutics, Vance et al. 2013 described anti-ricin sdAbs derived from alpacas. Herein, we evaluated the utility of selected alpaca-derived anti-ricin sdAbs for detection applications, and engineered an alpaca-derived sdAb to  ...[more]

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