Journal of South China University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2020, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (9): 141-148.doi: 10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.190667

• Biological Engineering • Previous Articles    

Screening,Expression and Specificity Detection of Anti-VEGF Nanobodies

XIE Qiuling1,2 LUO Meihua1 LEI Yun1 LIU Dongchen1 XIONG Sheng1,2   

  1. 1. College of Life Science and Technology,Jinan University,Guangzhou 510632,Guangdong,China;2. National Engineering Research Center of Genetic Medicine,Guangzhou 510000,Guangdong,China
  • Received:2019-09-28 Revised:2020-02-03 Online:2020-09-25 Published:2020-09-01
  • Contact: 谢秋玲 (1968-),女,博士,研究员,主要从事重组抗体表达等研究。 E-mail:txql@jnu.edu.cn
  • About author:谢秋玲 (1968-),女,博士,研究员,主要从事重组抗体表达等研究。
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province ( 2015A020211016)

Abstract: ascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a highly specific pro-vascular endothelial growth factor that closely related to tumor invasion,metastasis,prognosis and recurrence. This study is to screen and express the nanobodies with specificity and affinity for VEGF. Firstly,the llama was immunized with VEGF,and total RNA from peripheral blood lymphocytes was extracted to construct a phage library. The clones with affinity to VEGF were screened after repeated panning,and 10 VHH gene fragments with affinity to VEGF were obtained. Then their hy-drophilicity and molecular mass were analyzed by ExPASy,and it was found that 10 NbVEGF proteins were hydrophi-lic proteins with molecular masses between 20. 1kDa and 20. 7 kDa. At the same time,the 10 NbVEGF proteins were reconstructed in Escherichia coli,and the purity of the Nb VEGF proteins purified by Ni metal chelate affinity chroma-tography all exceeds 80%. Finally the specificity of the recombinant nanobodies was detected by enzyme linked im-munosorbent assay (ELISA). The results suggests that three recombinant nanobodies,namely,NbVEGF-3,NbVEGF-7 and NbVEGF-10,can specifically bind with VEGF,the affinity of NbVEGF-3 is consistent with that of the positive control,and other nanobodies have no resistance. In this study,three nanobodies with specificity to VEGF were screened and expressed in E. coli successfully,and NbVEGF-3 shows good affinity with VEGF,so it could be a drug candidate against VEGF.

Key words: nanobody, vascular endothelial growth factor, phage library, screening

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