Production of Escherichia coli-specific hybridomas by using gnotobiotic mice.
AUTOR(ES)
Tartera, C
RESUMO
Monoclonal antibodies provide a rapid and specific means of direct detection of microorganisms in water and food samples. However, monoclonal antibodies specific for some bacteria are difficult to obtain; a good example of such a bacterium is Escherichia coli. Gnotobiotic BALB/c mice immunized with whole-cell preparations of heat-treated strains of E. coli and subjected to high-frequency antigen injection showed a significant increase in the number of specific hybridomas produced. Fusions obtained by using regular BALB/c mice immunized by using standard immunization protocols produced nonspecific hybridomas. Twenty-one stable hybridomas that did not cross-react with Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 13883 or Citrobacter freundii 1604770 were obtained from gnotobiotic mice. The bacterial strains were selected for the specificity tests because of their high cross-reactivity, which has been detected in previous fusion experiments. The method of immunization described here offers the potential of improving the production of highly specific hybridomas for bacteria which have been difficult to obtain.
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