Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (11): 2486.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20120308

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Affinity Maturation of Anti-carbofuran Single Chain Fv by Site-directed Mutagenesis

DENG Long, XIAO Zhi-Li, DONG Jie-Xian, WANG Hong, YANG Wu-Ying, XIE Xi, YANG Jin-Yi, SHEN Yu-Dong, SUN Yuan-Ming   

  1. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
  • Received:2012-04-05 Online:2012-11-10 Published:2012-10-15

Abstract:

To obtain higher affinity anti-carbofuran(CBF) single-chainfragment(scFv) antibody, the scFv model by homology modeling was constructed according to the amino acids sequence and the active pocket region were determined. Through molecular docking model of CBF and scFv, it was found that hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding played an important role of antibody affinity. Then the hydrophilic amino acids HArg40 and LHis38 were changed to hydrophobic amino acids. The molecular docking of CBF and mutant antibody indicated that higher docking scores could be obtained when the leucine was taken as the mutation amino acid. Furthermore, mutation scFv gene was constructed, soluble recombinant protein was expressed and the affinity of evolved scFv(evoscFv) was identified by ELISA. The results showed that the 50% inhibition of binding of evoscFv against CBF was 18.11 μg/L which was lower than the wild type scFv antibody, and the affinity was also improved 2.23-fold. All these indicated that directed affinity maturation anti-CBF evoscFv was obtained through the analysis of molecule docking and replacement of target amino acid residues.

Key words: Carbofuran, Single-chain antibody, Molecular docking, Site-directed mutagenesis, Affinity maturation

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