A simple way to increase recovery of the expressed VH and VL genes in single-sorted human B cells

Autor: Sergey V Guselnikov, Tatyana N Belovezhets, Sergey V Kulemzin, Andrey A Gorchakov, Alexander V Taranin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: BioTechniques, Vol 67, Iss 4, Pp 184-187 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1940-9818
0736-6205
DOI: 10.2144/btn-2019-0079
Popis: Cloning VH and VL genes from individual antigen-specific B cells is an attractive approach for producing monoclonal antibodies of the desired specificity. Current RT-PCR protocols, however, result in the successful identification of VH and VL gene pairs in about half of the sorted cells. Here, we demonstrate that single-cell RT-PCR is likely affected by stochastic factors, and that running PCRs in triplicate results in successful amplification of the expressed VH and VL genes in 90–100% of single sorted human B cells.
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