Generation of anti-sulfated glycan antibodies using sulfotransferase-deficient mice

Methods Mol Biol. 2013:1022:51-60. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-465-4_5.

Abstract

Anti-carbohydrate monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are very useful in the functional analysis of complex carbohydrates in vivo. However, such mAbs are difficult to generate, largely because a wide variety of complex carbohydrates is intrinsically expressed in mice and rats and because the antigenicities of glycans are generally poor. In this chapter, I describe an efficient method for generating anti-carbohydrate mAbs using glycan--synthesizing enzyme-knockout mice in which the glycan structures formed by the missing enzymes should be highly antigenic. As an application of this method, I describe the generation of anti-sulfated glycan mAbs using sulfotransferase-deficient mice and the immunohistochemical detection of sulfated glycans involved in lymphocyte homing in both humans and mice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / analysis
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / immunology*
  • Antibody Formation
  • CHO Cells
  • Cricetinae
  • Cricetulus
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique / methods
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Polysaccharides / analysis
  • Polysaccharides / immunology*
  • Sulfates / analysis
  • Sulfates / immunology*
  • Sulfotransferases / genetics*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Polysaccharides
  • Sulfates
  • Sulfotransferases