PHRM3041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Immunogenicity, Trastuzumab, Polyclonal Antibodies

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12 Aug 2018
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Antibodies (immunoglobulins) are produced in animals in response to a foreign protein/antigen. Inactivate the foreign protein (e. g. toxins: mark the protein/cell for destruction by other immune cells. Antigen binding site determines specificity of the antibody variable region. B cells produce an array of different antibodies which have different specificities and recognise different sites on an antigen (e. g. foreign protein: these are polyclonal antibodies. Ultrasensitive hybrid immune system derived protein designed to recognise specific antigens. Homogenous proteins which are produced by a single clone of an engineered b lymphocyte. Designed to recognise a specific epitope of an antigen. All individual antibodies in a monoclonal antibody product should only recognise the same single epitope. Method to produce monoclonal antibodies hybridoma technology. Problem with making monoclonal antibodies: easy to isolate and produce protein from cultured immortal cell lines but these cells do not make antibodies, easy for b lymphocytes to produce antibodies but these cells are not immortal.

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