Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 5, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
...used as a template for PCR amplification with a degenerate primer set to amplify IgG variable light (VL... then verified by both diagnostic restriction digest and colony PCR.
Fig. 1: (A) Schematic of... and variable heavy (VH) chain sequences. Fusion PCR was performed to create an amplicon that was cloned... for some constructs more than 90% of the colony PCR validated clones unexpectedly failed to produce functional...chain sequences. By performing a BciVI digest of the PCR products prior to cloning, which in most cases left...activated B cell that produces the antibody of interest with a myeloma cell. This RNA was then used to... found that the recognition sequence for the restriction enzyme BciVI was present in the aberrant light...