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Journal Article
Llama Single Domain Antibodies Specific for the 7 Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotypes as Heptaplex Immunoreagents
2010
Overview
There are currently 7 known serotypes of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) classified upon non-cross reactivity of neutralizing immunoglobulins. Non-neutralizing immunoglobulins, however, can exhibit cross-reactivities between 2 or more serotypes, particularly mosaic forms, which can hamper the development of highly specific immunoassays, especially if based on polyclonal antisera. Here we employ facile recombinant antibody technology to subtractively select ligands to each of the 7 BoNT serotypes, resulting in populations with very high specificity for their intended serotype.
A single llama was immunized with a cocktail of 7 BoNT toxoids to generate a phage display library of single domain antibodies (sdAb, VHH or nanobodies) which were selected on live toxins. Resulting sdAb were capable of detecting both toxin and toxin complex with the best combinations able to detect 100s-10s of pg per 50 microL sample in a liquid bead array. The most sensitive sdAb were combined in a heptaplex assay to identify each of the BoNT serotypes in buffer and milk and to a lesser extent in carrot juice, orange juice and cola. Several anti-A(1) sdAb recognized A2 complex, showing that subtype cross-reactivity within a serotype was evident. Many of our sdAb could act as both captor and tracer for several toxin and toxin complexes suggesting sdAb can be used as architectural probes to indicate BoNT oligomerisation. Six of 14 anti-A clones exhibited inhibition of SNAP-25 cleavage in the neuro-2A assay indicating some sdAb had toxin neutralizing capabilities. Many sdAb were also shown to be refoldable after exposure to high temperatures in contrast to polyclonal antisera, as monitored by circular dichroism.
Our panel of molecularly flexible antibodies should not only serve as a good starting point for ruggedizing assays and inhibitors, but enable the intricate architectures of BoNT toxins and complexes to be probed more extensively.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Animals
/ Antibodies, Neutralizing - immunology
/ Antigens
/ Antisera
/ Assaying
/ Biochemistry/Biomacromolecule-Ligand Interactions
/ Biochemistry/Protein Folding
/ Biotechnology/Applied Microbiology
/ Botulinum Toxins - immunology
/ Botulism
/ Citrus
/ Cloning
/ Daucus
/ E coli
/ Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
/ Enzymes
/ Immunology/Antigen Processing and Recognition
/ Infectious Diseases/Bacterial Infections
/ Microbiology/Applied Microbiology
/ Milk
/ Neurological Disorders/Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System
/ Non-Clinical Medicine/Research Methods
/ Phages
/ Proteins
/ Studies
/ Toxins
/ Toxoids
/ Virology
