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Antibody Light Chains: Key to Increased Monoclonal Antibody Yields in Expi293 Cells?

  • Siqi Gong,
  • Seijal Gautam,
  • Joshua D. Coneglio,
  • Hanna B. Scinto and
  • Ruth M. Ruprecht

When constructing isogenic recombinant IgM–IgG pairs, we discovered that μ heavy chains strongly prefer partnering with λ light chains for optimal IgM expression in transiently cotransfected Expi293 cells. When μ chains were paired...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monoclonal Antibody-Directed Therapy Series II)
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Mucosal Antibodies: Defending Epithelial Barriers against HIV-1 Invasion

  • Ruth M. Ruprecht,
  • Bishal Marasini and
  • Rajesh Thippeshappa

23 November 2019

The power of mucosal anti-HIV-1 envelope immunoglobulins (Igs) to block virus transmission is underappreciated. We used passive immunization, a classical tool to unequivocally prove whether antibodies are protective. We mucosally instilled recombinan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Antibody-based HIV-1 Vaccine Development)