Isolation of hybridoma cell lines and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against cholera enterotoxin and its subunits.

AUTOR(ES)

Robb, M

RESUMO

Hybridoma cell lines which produced monoclonal antibodies against cholera toxin were isolated. These cell lines were detected with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay screening procedure with purified cholera toxin or subunit A of cholera toxin. Seven cell lines were characterized with respect to their reactivity with cholera toxin subunits by Western blot analysis. Five clones produced antibodies which were directed against subunit A, and two clones produced antibodies which reacted with subunit B. These antibodies were also characterized by Western blot analysis for reactivity with the heat-labile enterotoxin produced by porcine and human enterotoxinogenic strains of Escherichia coli. Monoclonal antibodies which reacted with subunit A of cholera toxin also reacted with subunit A of both porcine and human heat-labile enterotoxins. In contrast, monoclonal antibodies to subunit B of cholera toxin did not react with subunit B of the heat-labile enterotoxin. Antibodies directed against subunit B neutralized the biological activity of cholera toxin in vitro in the S49 mouse lymphosarcoma assay. In contrast to polyclonal anti-subunit A antisera, monoclonal anti-subunit A from four of five clones had small but measurable neutralizing capacities in vitro.

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