The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 12 6355-6364, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Neutralizing murine monoclonal antibodies to human IL-5 isolated from hybridomas and a filamentous phage Fab display library

RS Ames, MA Tornetta, LJ McMillan, KF Kaiser, SD Holmes, E Appelbaum, DM Cusimano, TW Theisen, MS Gross and CS Jones
Department of Molecular Immunology, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA.

Conventional hybridomas and combinatorial Ab libraries were used to develop neutralizing murine mAbs to human IL-5. Mice were immunized with rIL-5. Spleens from two mice were used to generate hybridomas. Spleens from an additional three mice were used to construct a combinatorial library. In both instances, Abs were identified and selected by ELISA using 96-well plates coated with rIL-5. These Abs were tested for the ability to block binding of iodinated rIL-5 to the alpha-chain of the human IL-5 receptor (IL-5R alpha) and to inhibit proliferation of IL-5-dependent cells. By hybridoma technology, 16 mAbs were obtained, 11 of which blocked binding to IL-5R alpha, including three that inhibited proliferation. Quantitative binding assays and sequence analysis revealed that these latter three mAbs were closely related. Combinatorial cloning and selection by phage display was used to isolate 24 bacterial colonies secreting Fabs that bound to 125I-rIL- 5 and to rIL-5-coated plates. Sequencing of 10 of the Fabs indicated that four unique Abs were obtained, comprising one predominant VH paired with one of two different VL. The sequence of the Fabs was distinct from the sequences of the neutralizing mAbs. In contrast to the mAbs, none of the Fabs blocked binding of 125I-IL-5 to IL-5R alpha or neutralized the biologic activity of IL-5. The inability to identify neutralizing Fabs was shown not to result from their monovalency, because a Fab derived from one of the neutralizing mAbs, by cloning and expression of its Fd and kappa light chains, retained neutralizing activity. By chain shuffling, pairing of the Fd fragment of the heavy chain of one of the neutralizing mAbs (2B6), with the light chain library derived from the IL-5-immunized mice, neutralizing Fabs were obtained. These Fabs contained light chain sequences closely related to the original light chain of 2B6. Hence, chain shuffling allowed detection of a light chain sequence that was not evident upon two-chain combinatorial selection. The results reveal differences in the Abs obtained from a combinatorial library vs hybridomas and demonstrate how these approaches can be used in concert to select mAbs with neutralizing activity.

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