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Improving the Affinity and the Fine Specificity of an Anti-Cortisol Antibody by Parsimonious Mutagenesis and Phage Display¹

Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France

Immunoassays are widely used to determine steroid concentrations. However, they are limited by the specificity of anti-steroid mAbs. We used the phage display system combined with molecular modeling and site-specific randomization to improve the affinity and the fine specificity of an anti-cortisol mAb. Using parsimonious mutagenesis, we have generated a library of mutant Ab fragments (scFv) derived from this Ab by randomizing five amino acids chosen by molecular modeling and Ab-hapten contact structural analysis. Anti-cortisol Ab fragments were selected from the library in the presence of steroid analogues to block cross-reacting binders. Specific elution with free cortisol allowed the recovery of clones with up to eightfold better affinity and fivefold less cross-reactivity than the wild-type scFv. This approach can be applied to any anti-hapten Ab and represents a useful approach for obtaining highly specific Abs for use in steroid immunoassays.

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