Journal
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01796
Keywords
human antibody; IMGT/HighV-QUEST; immunoinformatics; immunoglobulin; Pacific Biosciences sequencing; phage combinatorial library; single chain fragment variable; next-generation sequencing
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Ministere de l' Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche (MESR)
- Montpellier University, France
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Labex MabImprove [ANR-10-LABX-5301]
- BioCampus Montpellier
- Region Languedoc-Roussillon [Grand Plateau Technique pour la Recherche (GPTR)]
- French National Agency within ATHERANOS [ANR-13-BSV5-0018 SVSE5]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-BSV5-0018] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Phage-display selection of immunoglobulin (IG) or antibody single chain Fragment variable (scFv) from combinatorial libraries is widely used for identifying new antibodies for novel targets. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has recently emerged as a new method for the high throughput characterization of IG and T cell receptor (TR) immune repertoires both in vivo and in vitro. However, challenges remain for the NGS sequencing of scFv from combinatorial libraries owing to the scFv length (>800 bp) and the presence of two variable domains [variable heavy (VH) and variable light (VL) for IG] associated by a peptide linker in a single chain. Here, we show that single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing with the Pacific Biosciences RS II platform allows for the generation of full-length scFv reads obtained from an in vivo selection of scFv-phages in an animal model of atherosclerosis. We first amplified the DNA of the phagemid inserts from scFv-phages eluted from an aortic section at the third round of the in vivo selection. From this amplified DNA, 450,558 reads were obtained from 15 SMRT cells. Highly accurate circular consensus sequences from these reads were generated, filtered by quality and then analyzed by IMGT/HighV-QUEST with the functionality for scFv. Full-length scFv were identified and characterized in 348,659 reads. Full-length scFv sequencing is an absolute requirement for analyzing the associated VH and VL domains enriched during the in vivo panning rounds. In order to further validate the ability of SMRT sequencing to provide high quality, full-length scFv sequences, we tracked the reads of an scFv-phage clone P3 previously identified by biological assays and Sanger sequencing. Sixty P3 reads showed 100% identity with the full-length scFv of 767 bp, 53 of them covering the whole insert of 977 bp, which encompassed the primer sequences. The remaining seven reads were identical over a shortened length of 939 bp that excludes the vicinity of primers at both ends. Interestingly these reads were obtained from each of the 15 SMRT cells. Thus, the SMRT sequencing method and the IMGT/HighV-QUEST functionality for scFv provides a straightforward protocol for characterization of full-length scFv from combinatorial phage libraries.
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