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ArticleAvicenna journal of medical biotechnology2012

Ligation Independent Cloning of Polycistronic, Genetically Modified, HuMAb4D5-8 F (ab') 2, in Bacterial Plasmid.

Leila Farahmand, Keivan Majidzadeh-A, Zargham Sepehrizadeh, Mohammad Reza Mofid, Rezvan Esmaeili, Mojtaba Tabatabaei Yazdi

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Article in Avicenna journal of medical biotechnology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leila FarahmandDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ; Iranian Center for Breast Cancer (ICBC), Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Tehran, Iran.
Keivan Majidzadeh-A
Zargham Sepehrizadeh
Mohammad Reza Mofid
Rezvan Esmaeili
Mojtaba Tabatabaei Yazdi
Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, recombinant monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives have emerged as important targeted therapy agents. Monoclonal antibodies are extremely difficult to produce. So, the cost of production is very high and many people cannot afford these drugs. In this regard, choosing inexpensive and easy ways to manipulate production systems such as bacterial hosts to reduce the cost of manufacturing these critical components are considered as vital step for developmental issues in recombinant expression systems. We, therefore, attempted to generate a polycistronic construct of anti HER-2 F(ab')2 fragment antibody for insertion in an expression bacterial plasmid. Also some modifications were made in the hinge region to express antibody F(ab')2 fragment in its authentic form preventing from multiple varieties of disulfide bond formation. Finally, synthesized construct was cloned in pET-32 Ek/LIC vector without using restriction enzyme digestion or ligation reactions. The results of this study showed that modified F(ab')2 fragment was simply and successfully inserted in Escherichia coli (E.coli) using the Ligation Independent Cloning technology.

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Escherichia coliMonoclonal antibodiesPlasmids

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PMID23407748
PMCPMC3558198
OpenAlexW2288151847

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