J. Biochem, 1998, Vol. 123, No. 1 182-188
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Specificities and Rates of Binding of Anti-(6–4) Photoproduct Antibody Fragments to Synthetic Thymine Photoproducts1
*Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University Kita-ku, Sapporo 060
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kanazawa University Kanazawa 920
2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81-11-706-3975, Fax: +81-11-706-4989, E-mail: ohtsuka{at}pharm.hokudai.ac.jp
Pyrimidine (6–4) pyrimidone photoproducts are some of the major DNA photolesions induced by ultraviolet (UV) light. A monoclonal antibody (64M5) specific to a (6–4) photoproduct has been established and the corresponding single-chain antibody (64M5sc-Fv) has been prepared. In this study, we characterized the ligand selectivities of 64M5 and 64M5scFv using synthetic octadeoxynucleotides containing either a central cis-syn cyclobutane thymine dimer (T [c,s]T), the (6–4) photoproduct of TpT (T[6–4]T), or its Dewar isomer (T[Dewar]T) by means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). Both 64M5 and 64M5scFv recognized T[6–4]T, but not the other photoproducts. We synthesized several biotinylated oligonucleotides of different lengths containing (T[6–4]T) to analyze the effects of the antigen size on the binding rates of an antigen binding fragment (64M5Fab) and 64M5scFv by means of surface plasmon resonance. The association rate constants for oligonucleotides of different sizes containing T[6–4]T as to 64M5Fab were found to be almost the same (1.9–5.6×105 M–1s–1), while the dissociation rate constant for the largest oligonucleotide (d8mer, 8.0×10–5S–1) was significantly smaller than that for the d2mer (4.2×10–2 S–1) These results indicate that 64M5Fab recognized the d2mer as the epitope and that the binding affinity for T[6–4]T depended on the flanking oligonucleotides. The dissociation rate constants for 64M5scFv as to the antigen analogs were almost the same as those for the various T[6–4]T-oligonucleotides as to 64M5Fab, suggesting that the conformations of these antibody binding regions are pretty similar to each other.
1This work was supported by the Proposal-Based Advanced Industrial Technology R & D Program of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan, and a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan.
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