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Cell-free expression of two single-chain monoclonal antibodies against lysozyme: effect of domain arrangement on the expression.

Abstract：

:Single-chain antibodies (scFv), which can be produced in Escherichia coli cells, have been shown in numerous cases to be active in antigen binding. In the case of the two anti-lysozyme single-chain antibodies, scFvLH and scFvHL, which have the reversed arrangement of the variable domains of the heavy and light chains of the corresponding monoclonal antibodies, the expression level differs greatly when they are produced in Escherichia coli [Tsumoto et al. (1995) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 201, 546-551]. Although the expression level of scFvLH is high in vivo, the single chain antibody with the reversed orientation (scFvHL) was synthesized in a very low yield and no active product could be obtained. We report here the synthesis of these two anti-lysozyme single-chain antibodies in high yields and with high biological activities in a cell-free E. coli expression system in the presence of reduced and oxidized glutathione, protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), and chaperones. In immunological blotting assays, the synthesized scFvs with both arrangements exhibit specific binding activity to the corresponding antigens, hen egg-white lysozyme, and in an activity assay both inhibited the action of lysozyme. scFvLH is synthesized mainly as a product with the expected molecular weight, whereas scFvHL is produced with additional shorter fragments, suggesting that the low yield isolation through the expression in vivo is due to mistranslation or ribonucleolytic cleavage of the transcript. In the cell-free expression of scFv a certain amount of the product is precipitated but in the presence of chaperones the amount of soluble protein increased from 25 to 90% (PDI and chaperones). The overall expression level and the specific biological activity, however, were hardly influenced. The system reported here can provide significant amounts of various scFv fragments regardless of the order of variable regions, including those which are hardly expressed in vivo.

journal_name

J Biochem

journal_title

Journal of biochemistry

authors

Merk H,Stiege W,Tsumoto K,Kumagai I,Erdmann VA

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022290

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-02-01 00:00:00

pages

328-33

issue

eissn

0021-924X

issn

1756-2651

journal_volume

125

pub_type

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Cell-free expression of two single-chain monoclonal antibodies against lysozyme: effect of domain arrangement on the expression.