Abdolalizadeh Jalal, Majidi Zolbanin Jafar, Nouri Mohammad, Baradaran Behzad, Movassaghpour Aliakbar, Farajnia Safar, Omidi Yadollah
Research Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. ; Student' Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Adv Pharm Bull. 2013;3(1):19-23. doi: 10.5681/apb.2013.004. Epub 2013 Feb 7.
Recombinant tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) has been utilized as an antineoplastic agent for the treatment of patients with melanoma and sarcoma. It targets tumor cell antigens by impressing tumor-associated vessels. Protein purification with affinity chromatography has been widely used in the downstream processing of pharmaceutical-grade proteins.
In this study, we examined the potential of our produced anti-TNF-α scFv fragments for purification of TNF-α produced by Raji cells. The Raji cells were induced by lipopolysaccharides (LPS) to express TNF-α. Western blotting and Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) flow cytometry analyses were used to evaluate the TNF-α expression. The anti-TNF-α scFv selected from antibody phage display library was coupled to CNBr-activated sepharose 4B beads used for affinity purification of expressed TNF-α and the purity of the protein was assessed by SDS-PAGE.
Western blot and FACS flow cytometry analyses showed the successful expression of TNF-α with Raji cells. SDS-PAGE analysis showed the performance of scFv for purification of TNF-α protein with purity over 95%.
These findings confirm not only the potential of the produced scFv antibody fragments but also this highly pure recombinant TNF-α protein can be applied for various in vitro and in vivo applications.
重组肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)已被用作抗肿瘤药物,用于治疗黑色素瘤和肉瘤患者。它通过作用于肿瘤相关血管来靶向肿瘤细胞抗原。亲和层析蛋白纯化已广泛应用于药用级蛋白质的下游加工。
在本研究中,我们检测了我们所制备的抗TNF-α单链抗体片段(scFv)对Raji细胞产生的TNF-α的纯化潜力。用脂多糖(LPS)诱导Raji细胞表达TNF-α。采用蛋白质印迹法和荧光激活细胞分选(FACS)流式细胞术分析来评估TNF-α的表达。从抗体噬菌体展示文库中筛选出的抗TNF-α scFv与溴化氰活化的琼脂糖4B珠偶联,用于亲和纯化表达的TNF-α,并通过十二烷基硫酸钠-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDS-PAGE)评估蛋白质的纯度。
蛋白质印迹法和FACS流式细胞术分析表明Raji细胞成功表达了TNF-α。SDS-PAGE分析显示scFv对TNF-α蛋白的纯化效果良好,纯度超过95%。
这些发现不仅证实了所制备的scFv抗体片段的潜力,而且这种高纯度的重组TNF-α蛋白可应用于各种体外和体内应用。