ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 1487-1493.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.09.022

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Establishing a Method for Highly Efficient Producing Nanometer Antibodies

HE Sheng-fang, FU Xiang-jing, LIU Yang-kun, MU Guo-hui, LIU Hai-jin,WANG Xing-long, DU En-qi, YANG Zeng-qi*   

  1. College of Veterinary MedicineNorthwest A&F UniversityYangling 712100China
  • Received:2013-03-18 Online:2013-09-23 Published:2013-09-23

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to establish a simple, efficient and inexpensive strategy for expression and purification of Non-taged nanobodies. Chose nanobodies of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) Cap protein as the target protein, three plasmids with N-terminus fusion tags pHSIE-Nb(His-Sumo-Intein, pHSIE-intein-NbHis-Inteinand pET32a-intein-NbHis-Trx-Inteinwere constructed and their effects were compared. The recombinant three plasmids were transformed into E. coil BL21(+) and induced by IPTG respectively. The expression and solubility of target proteins were tested under different conditions, and the favorable tags were selected. Recombinant proteins were purified by Ni-NTA column chromatography, and tags were removed by Intein as self-cleavaged, then target protein were prepared, based on which a double antibody sandwich ELISA method was developed. All these three different tagged nanobodies could be successfully expressed. A series of experiments lead to the finding that the placement of His-Trx-Intein before the Nb is the best strategy in availing the soluble expression of the tagged protein. After on-column cleavage was preceded at pH7.0being incubated at 25 for 24 h, the recombinant un-tagged Nb were released. The results of double antibody sandwich ELISA showed that the Nb protein could react specifically with cap protein, and there was no significant difference (P>0.05) between positive control group and nanobody group, which suggested that this method of preparation of nanobodies was successful. An efficient expression and simple purification method of preparation of nanobodies was successfully established, which was efficient soluble expression, and simple purification, and no tagged active nanobodies could be prepared. The study provides a technical support for the further theoretical research and production in nanobodies.

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