Rapid mRNA-display selection of an IL-6 inhibitor using continuous-flow magnetic separation

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2011 Aug 29;50(36):8295-8. doi: 10.1002/anie.201101149. Epub 2011 Jul 14.

Abstract

Since the invention of hybridoma technology, methods for generating affinity reagents that bind specific target molecules have revolutionized biology and medicine.[1] In the postgenomic era, there is a pressing need to accelerate the pace of ligand discovery to elucidate the functions of a rapidly growing number of newly characterized molecules and their modified states.[2] Nonimmunoglobulin-based proteins such as DARPins, affibodies, and monobodies represent attractive alternatives to traditional antibodies as these are small, soluble, disulfide-free, single-domain scaffolds that can be selected from combinatorial libraries and expressed in bacteria.[3] For example, monobodies—highly stable scaffolds based on the immunoglobulin VH-like 10th fibronectin type III (10Fn3) domain of human fibronectin[4]—have yielded antibody mimetics that bind to numerous targets for applications including intracellular inhibition,[5,6] therapeutics,[7] and biosensors.[6,8] These 10Fn3-based ligands can be derived from highly diverse libraries using techniques such as phage, ribosome, mRNA, bacterial, and yeast displays.[9]

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Antibodies / immunology
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Directed Molecular Evolution
  • Humans
  • Immunomagnetic Separation
  • Interleukin-6 / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Interleukin-6 / genetics
  • Interleukin-6 / metabolism
  • Ligands
  • Microfluidics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Protein Binding
  • RNA, Messenger / metabolism*

Substances

  • Antibodies
  • Interleukin-6
  • Ligands
  • RNA, Messenger