Produção de novos anticorpos Anti-CD20 na forma de FvFc em células de mamíferos

Monoclonal antibodies are specialized which have the ability to recognize other molecules (antigens). They are important tools in clinical practice and biotechnology and have been useful in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious, inflammatory, immunological and neoplasic diseases, as well as in the study of the host/pathogen interaction, and in the detection and quantification of diverse molecules. Murine monoclonal antibodies (mAb) present limited therapeutic applications because of their heterologous nature, which can generate immunogenic responses and consequent loss of activity. The incorporation of molecular biology, proteic and genetic engineering have extended the production and uses of monoclonal antibodies, finding techniques like hybridoma, chimerization, humanization and fully human monoclonal antibodies. Over the last few years, new generations of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been developed for potential benefits over the classical, first-generation mAb rituximabe. Despite its successes, not all patients respond to rituximabe therapy and virtually all relapse. Improving the properties of rituximabe to enhance its efficacy further is therefore highly desirable. Compared with rituximabe, new mAbs have enhanced antitumor activity resulting from increased complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and/or antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). In this aspect animal cell, cultures are the preferential expression systems for those proteins, which require extensive posttranslational modifications. Our research group has been interested in the production of heterologous proteins in mammalian cells since 2001. This work aimed the production of new antibodies anti CD-20 as a recombinant FvFc fragment, in heterologous expression system Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-K1) and Human Embryonic Kidney cells (HEK-293) the transfection efficiency for both cell lines was comparatively evaluated, as well as the transient expression. The results indicate mammalian cells as an optimal system for the production of heterologous proteins, Were amplified and cloned into an expression vector for mammalian cells the corresponding gene segments the three recombinant versions humanized homologous to monoclonal quimeric Rituximabe antibody obtained by CDR graffting (Zaparolli 2015) A,O and L) and a hybrid version selected by VL shuffling (H) . The results showed a lower transfection efficiency