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ArticleInfection and immunity2010

Efficient serum clearance of botulinum neurotoxin achieved using a pool of small antitoxin binding agents.

Jorge Sepulveda, Jean Mukherjee, Saul Tzipori, Lance L Simpson, Charles B Shoemaker

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jorge SepulvedaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, 200 Westboro Rd., North Grafton, MA 01536, USA.
Jean Mukherjee
Saul Tzipori
Lance L Simpson
Charles B Shoemaker
New England Disabled Sports · USThomas Jefferson University · US

Funding

Treatments for Nipah Virus InfectionU54AI057159 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI FINBERG, ROBERT WILLIAM · 2003 to 2013
$113.7M
GENETICS AND ROLE OF ALGINATE IN P. AERUGINOSA INFECTIONR29AI030050 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI GOLDBERG, JOANNA B. · 1991 to 1995
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NIAID NIH HHS N01 AI030050NIAID NIH HHS N01-AI-30050NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057159
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antitoxins for botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and other toxins are needed that can be produced economically with improved safety and shelf-life properties compared to conventional therapeutics with large-animal antisera. Here we show that protection from BoNT lethality and rapid BoNT clearance through the liver can be elicited in mice by administration of a pool of epitope-tagged small protein binding agents together with a single anti-tag monoclonal antibody (MAb). The protein binding agents used in this study were single-chain Fv domains (scFvs) with high affinity for BoNT serotype A (BoNT/A). The addition of increasing numbers of differently tagged scFvs synergistically increased the level of protection against BoNT/A. It was not necessary that any of the BoNT/A binding agents possess toxin-neutralizing activity. Mice were protected from a dose equivalent to 1,000 to 10,000 50% lethal doses (LD(50)) of BoNT/A when given three or four different anti-BoNT scFvs, each fused to an E-tag peptide, and an anti-E-tag IgG1 MAb. Toxin protection was enhanced when an scFv contained two copies of the E tag. Pharmacokinetic studies demonstrated that BoNT/A was rapidly cleared from the sera of mice given a pool of anti-BoNT/A scFvs and an anti-tag MAb but not from the sera of mice given scFvs alone or anti-tag MAb alone. The scFv pool and anti-tag MAb protected mice from lethality when administered up to 2 h following exposure of mice to a dose equivalent to 10 LD(50) of BoNT/A. These results suggest that it will be possible to rapidly and economically develop and produce therapeutic antitoxins consisting of pools of tagged binding agents that are administered with a single, stockpiled anti-tag MAb.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingBotulinum AntitoxinBotulinum Toxins, Type AEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayEpitopesImmunoglobulin FragmentsMiceAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingBotulinum AntitoxinBotulinum Toxins, Type AEpitopesImmunoglobulin Fragments

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PMID19917718
PMCPMC2812214
OpenAlexW1964411014

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