Embodiment
The present invention relates to a kind of anti-CTLA 4 monoclonal antibody of reorganization, this antibody comprises variable region of heavy chain and variable region of light chain, it is characterized in that variable region of light chain has the aminoacid sequence shown in the SEQ ID NO:1, variable region of heavy chain has the aminoacid sequence shown in the SEQ ID NO:2.
Monoclonal antibody can make with the whole bag of tricks well known to those skilled in the art.For example, monoclonal antibody can use hybridoma method (by Kohler etc., Nature, 256:495 (1975) at first proposes) to make, or makes with recombinant DNA method (U.S. Patent No. 4,816,567).The also available for example Clackson of monoclonal antibody etc., Nature, 3 52:624-628 (1991) and Marks etc., J.Mol.Biol., the described technology of 222:581-597 (1991) is separated acquisition from phage antibody library.
The present invention also provides the dna molecular of code book invention recombinant anti-CTLA 4 monoclonal antibody.In a preferable example, this dna molecular contains the nucleotide sequence of the described monoclonal antibody variable region of light chain of coding shown in the SEQ ID NO:3, and the nucleotide sequence of the described monoclonal antibody variable region of heavy chain of coding shown in the SEQ ID NO:4.
Behind the nuclear former times acid sequence that obtains code book invention recombinant anti-CTLA 4 monoclonal antibody variable region of heavy chain and variable region of light chain, can prepare monoclonal antibody of the present invention by the following method usually.
At first, provide nucleotide sequence that contains code book invention monoclonal antibody and the expression vector of the expression regulation sequence that links to each other with this series of operations.
The dna sequence dna of code book invention monoclonal antibody can make with conventional means well known to those skilled in the art.For example, can be according to sequence synthetic disclosed by the invention or with PCR method amplification obtain the encoding nucleotide sequence of this monoclonal antibody variable region of heavy chain and variable region of light chain.Then, these nucleotide sequences are inserted in the suitable expression vector by selecting proper restriction site with the whole bag of tricks well known in the art, make them respectively before expression vector entrained CH encoding sequence and constant region of light chain encoding sequence, and make them in same frame.
Used expression vector is a various commercially available expression vector well known by persons skilled in the art among the present invention, for example available from the expression vector of Qiagen and Promega company, and the expression vector pMG 18 that can buy (" carrying out the exploitation of the instrument of environmental monitoring according to the INCP-9 plasmid sequence " (DEVELOPMENT OFTOOLS FORENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING BASED ON INCP-9PLASMIDS SEQUENCES), A.Created, R.Krasowiak, M.Titok, C.M.ThomasSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK and Faculty of Biology, Dept of Microbiology, Belarus State UniversityScoring Av.4, Minsk 220080 Belarus).
Subsequently, the expression vector with above-mentioned acquisition transforms proper host cell." host cell " generally comprises prokaryotic cell prokaryocyte and eukaryotic cell.The example of prokaryotic host cell commonly used comprises intestinal bacteria, Bacillus subtilus etc.Eukaryotic host cell commonly used comprises yeast cell, insect cell and mammalian cell.In the present invention, preferable host cell is a Chinese hamster ovary celI.Method with the expression vector transformed host cell has a variety of, used Transformation Program to depend on host to be transformed.Power one method that the former times acid of allos multinuclear is imported in the mammalian cell is known in the art, it comprises transfection, calcium phosphate precipitation, the Polybrene (1 of dextran mediation, 5-dimethyl-1,5-phenodiazine 11 methylene radical gather Methobromide) mediation transfection, protoplastis fusion, electroporation, liposome-mediated transfection and with the dna direct microinjection in karyon.In the present invention, preferred methods is electroporation or liposome mediated-method etc.For example can adopt the liposome method test kit of Invitrogen company to come transfection CHO cell.
Then, under the condition that is fit to monoclonal antibody expression of the present invention, cultivate the host cell that transforms gained.Use conventional immunoglobulin purification step then, as albumin A-Sepharose, conventional separation and purification means purifying well known to those skilled in the art such as light basic phosphatic rock chromatography, gel electrophoresis, dialysis, ion exchange chromatography, hydrophobic chromatography, sieve chromatography or affinity chromatography obtain recombinant anti-CTLA 4 monoclonal antibody of the present invention.
The gained monoclonal antibody can be identified with conventional means.The binding specificity of monoclonal antibody can be measured with immunoprecipitation or external combination test (as radioimmunoassay (RIA) or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)).The binding affinity of monoclonal antibody is available Munson etc. for example, Anal.Biochem., and the Scatchard of 107:220 (1980) analyzes and measures.
Below in conjunction with embodiment the present invention is described in further detail.Yet should be appreciated that and enumerate these embodiment, and be not to be used for limiting the present invention just for an illustration.
Do not indicate among the embodiment that being of source is commercially available.
Embodiment 1 screens cytolytic T lymphocyte antigen 4 antibody gene variable region from antibody library
1) structure of mouse source antibody library
CTLA4-Fc fusion rotein (R﹠amp; D, 325-CT/CF) with freund's adjuvant immunity Balb/C mouse, after the immunity 4 times, 1: 500 dilution back of mice serum shows strong positive reaction with CTLA4, gets immunity back mouse spleen, according to people J.Mol.Biol. such as Marks, 222,581-597.Hoogenboom and Winter, J.Mol.Biol., 227, people J Immunol Methods.2001 Nov1 such as 381-388.Haidaris CG; 257 (1-2): 185-202, Griffiths, people EMBO J. such as A.D., 13,3245-3260 (1994) .Nissim, people EMBO J. such as A., 13, the method for describing among the 692-698 (1994) makes up mouse source antibody library.
2) screening
The antibody library bacterial strain of recovery is added 14 milliliters of fresh LB substratum for 1 milliliter, in 50 milliliters of triangular flasks, cultivated 16 hours for 37 ℃.
12000rpm high speed centrifugation 10 minutes is transferred to supernatant liquor in 50 milliliters of aseptic centrifuge tubes, preserves standby.Guarantee that its titre should be 2 * 10
11More than.At first use the human IgG1 as antigen, the ordinary method bag is by 25 ml cells culturing bottles.Add in the cell bottle behind the bag quilt and be no less than 3 * 10
10Phage, 37 ℃ of incubations 1 hour.Collect the supernatant liquor in the culturing bottle, standby.The CTLA4-Fc fusion rotein is as antigen, with the ordinary method bag by 25 ml cells culturing bottles.Bag by after the cell bottle in add to go up the supernatant liquor that the step collects, 37 ℃ of incubations 1 hour.Outwell the liquid in the bottle, wash culturing bottle 10 times with 10 milliliters of PBS that added 1%Tween-20.The TG1 cell that adds 1 milliliter of logarithmic phase in culturing bottle, 37 ℃ of incubation concussions were cultivated 16 hours.
Repeat the described step 4 of epimere time.
Cell dilution to 10 with above-mentioned acquisition
5Cultivate being added with on 1.5% agar plate of 0.1 penbritin after the cells/ml, obtain mono-clonal.
Get being cloned on the 96 hole depth orifice plates on the above-mentioned flat board and cultivate, the clone in every hole does 960 clones (10 96 orifice plates) altogether.
Above-mentioned deep-well plates after centrifugal 20 minutes, is transferred to new aseptic deep-well plates with supernatant at 5000RPM on the 96 orifice plate whizzers, be preserved in after sealing 4 the degree standby.
Get 10 of 96 orifice plates, add in every hole the conventional bag of CTLA4 (10 mcg/ml) 10 microlitres by after, add supernatant 10 microlitres of above-mentioned preservation respectively, 37 ℃ of incubations after 1 hour with the PBS washing that contains 1%Tween-20 20 times.The goat-anti M13 monoclonal antibody (available from Pharmacia company) that adds 1 microlitre HRP mark, 37 ℃ of incubations use the PBS of 1%Tween-20 to wash 10 times after 30 minutes.
Add and contain PBS 200 microlitres of 0.025%DAB developer and the H of 1 microlitre 1%
2O
2The 37 ℃ of incubation colour developing was read 595 nanometers after 20 minutes on plate reading machine photoabsorption.
Determine the hole that color reaction is strong according to the photoabsorption reading, the corresponding clone in these holes is the stronger antibody variable region clone of avidity.This test-results filters out 357 positive colonies altogether, determines wherein 5 the strongest clones of avidity according to its reading, is used for next step research.
3) the antibody variable region encoding sequence is to the clone of expression vector
Above-mentioned 5 clones' bacterial strain is increased, then according to the plasmid DNA extracting and purifying test kit (Wizard of manufacturer's specification sheets in 100 milliliters of LB substratum with Promega company
Plus SV Minipreps DNAPurification System) plasmid DNA purification.
With XbaI with on 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis, separate endonuclease bamhi after NheI Restriction Enzyme enzyme is cut above-mentioned plasmid DNA, get band about 363bp and carry out glue and reclaim, the gained fragment is variable region of heavy chain.Behind the pcr amplification, carry out sequencing.With XbaI with on 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis, separate endonuclease bamhi after BsiWI Restriction Enzyme enzyme is cut above-mentioned plasmid DNA, get band about 336bp and carry out glue and reclaim, the gained fragment is variable region of light chain.Behind the pcr amplification, carry out sequencing.After determining correct sequence, chemical synthesis is synthesized the light chain full length sequence, 5 ' end design XbaI enzyme cutting site, and 3 ' end design BamHI restriction enzyme site, constant region is a mouse κ constant region of light chain sequence.
The PCR method is from mouse boosting cell amplification IgG1 CH sequence, and the CH1 initial amino acid sported Ala-Ser, contained the NheI restriction enzyme site simultaneously, 3 ' end design BamHI restriction enzyme site, after amplification back sequence verification was errorless, NheI and BamHI double digestion IgG1 constant region fragment and pMG18 were connected into pMG18 with the IgG1 constant region, the novel vector called after pM that makes up, as shown in Figure 2.
Cut expression vector pM with XbaI and NheI Restriction Enzyme enzyme.The restriction enzyme mapping of this expression vector as shown in Figure 2.Above-mentioned variable region of heavy chain is inserted in the XbaI/NheI site of this expression vector then.Equally, utilize XbaI and BamHI Restriction Enzyme the light chain of antibody full-length cDNA to be inserted in the XbaI/BamHI site of pM carrier, thereby make up the expression vector pM (H+L) that is contained recombinant anti-CTLA 4 heavy chain of antibody total length and light chain full-length gene respectively, as shown in Figure 3.
4) screening of the transfection of Chinese hamster ovary celI and recombinant clone
The expression vector that has antibody gene of above-mentioned structure is inoculated in 100 milliliters of LB substratum in the transformed into escherichia coli DH5 α bacterial strain respectively and increases, with ultrapure plasmid DNA purification kit (Ultrapure Plasmid DNA Purification Kit) the extracting and purifying plasmid DNA of Qiagen company.The liposome method test kit of employing Invitrogen company (lipofectamine 2000 transfection reagent, 11668-027), with the plasmid DNA cotransfection Chinese hamster ovary celI of above-mentioned purifying, carry out with reference to the specification sheets of producer by operation.
The Chinese hamster ovary celI that transforms carries out the selection in continuous 9 weeks on MTX selection substratum, cultivate in the enterprising limit by row dilution of 96 orifice plates at last, carries out continuously 3 times, carry out mono-clonalization.
The monoclonal cell of choosing ties up on RPMI 1640 substratum and cultivates, and supernatant is carried out the test of Western trace, judges expression intensity according to staining reaction, picks out 12 and expresses strong clone as the candidate cell strain.
5) Purification of Monoclonal Antibodies
Go out said monoclonal antibody with the direct separation and purification from cells and supernatant of Protein A affinity column, prove that through the SDA-PAGE electrophoresis products therefrom purity is greater than 90%.The product of affinity chromatography passes through sieve chromatography once more, has obtained the sample of purity>98%.These samples are used for following further analysis and research.
The expression intensity of embodiment 2 antibody genes in Chinese hamster ovary celI
12 high expression level candidate clones that above-mentioned screening is obtained are incubated in the tissue culture ware of 10cm, the expression amount of measuring antibody with the ELISA method as described below.Sheep anti-mouse igg (Fc) is wrapped quilt in elisa plate, 4 ℃ are spent the night, sealed 2 hours in 37 ℃ through 2%BSA, add culture supernatant to be measured and standard substance (mouse IgG1), hatched 2 hours for 37 ℃, add HRP-sheep anti-mouse igg (κ)) carry out association reaction, hatched 1 hour for 37 ℃, add TMB in 37 ℃ of effects 10 minutes, use H at last
2SO
4Termination reaction is surveyed A
450Value.The expression amount that has shown 12 candidate clones that above-mentioned screening obtains in the following table 1.
The expression amount of table 1 candidate clone in Chinese hamster ovary celI
The cell strain numbering | 1A2 | 2B7 | 3C4 | 4D7 | 5E3 | 6F7 | 7G2 | 8H6 | 9A1 | 8F4 | 9H7 | 6D2 | 5F3 |
Expression amount (mcg/ml) | 289.4 | 142.6 | 302.4 | 112.9 | 178.9 | 146.8 | 201.5 | 295.2 | 165.7 | 132.9 | 167.2 | 156.2 | 129.3 |
As can be seen from Table 1,3C4,1A2 and 8H6 have very high expression level.
The dna sequencing of embodiment 3 anti-CTLA 4 monoclonal antibody genes
According to pedigree, the anti-CTLA 4 antibody gene of the 8H6 cell strain of above-mentioned acquisition is carried out dna sequencing.The result is as follows: SEQ ID NO:3 has shown that the aminoacid sequence of 8H6 chain variable region gene sequence (5 ' to 3 ') its supposition of 336bp is presented among the SEQ ID NO:1; SEQ ID NO:4 has shown 8H6 heavy chain variable region gene sequence ((5 ' to 3 ') 363bp), and the aminoacid sequence of its supposition is presented among the SEQ ID NO:2.
Embodiment 4 monoclonal antibody avidity researchs
Cell culture fluid to each clone carries out purifying by the following method.Centrifugal cell and the cell debris removed of 10000rpm, filter membrane ultrafiltration and concentration to 1/10 volume of 100Kd molecular weight cut-off, the ultrafiltration damping fluid is 100mMTris-HCl, pH7.5.Cross the SPA-sepharose affinity column, sample solution is 100mM Tris-HCl, and pH7.5, elutriant are the 20mM citric acid, pH3.0,100mM NaCl.Molecular sieve (Sephadex G200) chromatography.Elutriant is 100mM Tris-HCl, and pH7.5 gets pure product.
Avidity measure to adopt the Scatchard analytical method (people such as Munson, 1980, Anal.BioChem. 107:220) carries out.The result shows that the avidity of 8H6,3C4 and three kinds of monoclonal antibodies of 1A2 reaches 5.5 * 10 respectively
-10, 8.5 * 10
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Embodiment 5 anti-CTLA 4 antibody test CTLA4:Fc fusion roteins and with the comparison of commercially available antibody
1. reagent and material
1.1 anti-CTLA 4 antibody: the engineering cell of structure (8H6) is through the serum-free fermentation, and the proteinA affinitive layer purification obtains.
1.2 commercial anti CTLA4 monoclonal antibody, R﹠amp; D, MAB325.
1.3 recombinant human CTLA 4-Fc fusion rotein, R﹠amp; D, 325-CT/CF.
1.4 how anti-goat anti-human igg (H+L) is, HRP mark, extent of dilution 1: 1000-4000, Southern Biotech.
1.5HRP chromogenic substrate: TMB, Shanghai Xiamen Kehua divides A liquid and B liquid, face with before, both equal-volumes mix.
1.6 stop buffer: 0.5mol/L sulfuric acid.
1.7pH=7.2 PBS: take by weighing KH
2PO
40.21g, NaCl 9.0g, Na
2HPO
4.12H
2O 0.97g adds the injection water and is dissolved to 1000ml.
1.8 bag is cushioned liquid: the sodium carbonate buffer of 20mmol/l pH=9.6.
1.9 sealing damping fluid: take by weighing the 3g bovine serum albumin, the PBS that adds pH7.2 is dissolved to 100ml.
1.10 lavation buffer solution: get 1ml Tween20, add PBS to 1 liter.
2. method: sandwich ELISA method
2.1 recombinant anti-CTLA 4 antibody and commercially available similar antibody dilution are cushioned in the liquid in bag, concentration 1 μ g/ml wraps by 96 hole enzyme plates 0.1ml/well, 37 ℃ of 2h.
2.2 washing: lavation buffer solution washing 2 times all pats dry on thieving paper at every turn.
2.3 sealing: the sealing damping fluid is filled it up with 37 ℃ of 2h behind the hole.
2.4 washing: lavation buffer solution washing 3 times all pats dry on thieving paper at every turn.
2.5 add antigen: adding is diluted to 25,12.5,6.25,3.1,1.55 with the sealing damping fluid, CTLA4-Fc (ng/mL), and 0.1ml/well establishes 2 multiple holes.
2.6 37℃ 2h。
2.7 washing: lavation buffer solution washing 5 times all pats dry on thieving paper at every turn.
2.8 the goat anti-human igg two of adding HRP mark is anti-: add with two of PBS dilution in 1: 2000 and resist 37 ℃ of 1h.
2.9 washing: lavation buffer solution washing 5 times all pats dry on thieving paper at every turn.
2.10 colour developing: add chromogenic substrate 100 μ L/ holes, lucifuge colour developing 5~20min (developing time is decided on the colour developing situation) adds stop buffer 50 μ L/ holes.
2.11 microplate reader reading: measuring the 450nm photoabsorption, is reference wavelength with 630nm.
2.12 do linear regression equation with standard substance concentration (logarithm) and A450/630nm value.
It is highly sensitive that antibody of the present invention detects CTLA4-Fc with this method, can reach 2ng/mL, high specificity, and commercially available similar antibody test CTLA4-Fc sensitivity has only 20ng/ml.The sensitivity of antibody of the present invention is 10 times of commercially available antibody, as shown in Figure 4.
Antibody of the present invention has high specificity, avidity advantages of higher, and is highly sensitive in commercially available antibody as detecting antibody, relatively has obvious progress with commercially available antibody, and therefore, antibody of the present invention can substitute the commercial anti body and be used to prepare the reagent that detects CTLA4 concentration.
In addition, commercially available detection kit is normally utilized ELISA double antibody sandwich method principle, in advance with antibody sandwich in test kit, be used to detect the corresponding antigen material, this method is easier, quick.Therefore, antibody of the present invention also can substitute the coated antibody in the existing detection kit, is used to prepare the test kit that detects CTLA4 concentration.
Although the invention describes concrete example, having a bit is significantly to those skilled in the art, promptly can do various variations and change to the present invention under the premise without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Therefore, claims have covered all these changes within the scope of the present invention.
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