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The 12 distinct subtypes that comprise the interferon alpha (IFNα) family of cytokines possess anti-viral, anti-proliferative and immunomodulatory activities. They are implicated in the etiology and progression of many diseases, and also used as therapeutic agents for viral and oncologic disorders. However, a deeper understanding of their role in disease is limited by a lack of tools to evaluate single subtypes at the protein level. Antibodies that selectively inhibit single IFNα subtypes could enable interrogation of each protein in biological samples and could be used for characterization and treatment of disease. Using phage-displayed synthetic antibody libraries, we have conducted selections against 12 human IFNα subtypes to explore our ability to obtain fine-specificity antibodies that recognize and antagonize the biological signals induced by a single IFNα subtype. For the first time, we have isolated antibodies that specifically recognize individual IFNα subtypes (IFNα2a/b, IFNα6, IFNα8b and IFNα16) with high affinity that antagonize signaling. Our results show that highly specific antibodies capable of distinguishing between closely related cytokines can be isolated from synthetic libraries and can be used to characterize cytokine abundance and function.
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Anticorpos Imobilizados/química , Anticorpos/química , Fragmentos Fab das Imunoglobulinas/química , Interferon-alfa/química , Biblioteca de Peptídeos , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Anticorpos/genética , Anticorpos Imobilizados/biossíntese , Anticorpos Imobilizados/genética , Especificidade de Anticorpos , Bacteriófagos/genética , Bacteriófagos/metabolismo , Clonagem Molecular , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Expressão Gênica , Genes Reporter , Humanos , Fragmentos Fab das Imunoglobulinas/biossíntese , Fragmentos Fab das Imunoglobulinas/genética , Interferon-alfa/antagonistas & inibidores , Interferon-alfa/metabolismo , Cinética , Luciferases/genética , Luciferases/metabolismo , Plasmídeos/química , Plasmídeos/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , Isoformas de Proteínas/antagonistas & inibidores , Isoformas de Proteínas/química , Isoformas de Proteínas/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Alinhamento de Sequência , Homologia de Sequência de AminoácidosRESUMO
Many Drosophila cytochrome P450 or Cyp genes are induced by caffeine and phenobarbital (PB). To understand the induction mechanism, we created Drosophila S2 cell lines stably transformed with different luciferase reporter plasmids carrying upstream DNAs of Cyp6a8 allele of the resistant 91-R strain, and the 1.1-kb upstream DNAs of Cyp6g1 of the 91-R and the susceptible 91-C strains. Following 24 h treatment with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), caffeine or PB, luciferase activity of all cell lines was determined. Results showed that the 0.1-kb DNA of Cyp6a8 and the upstream DNAs of Cyp6g1 from both strains are not induced by these chemicals in S2 cells. However, the 0.2-, 0.5- and 0.8-kb DNAs of Cyp6a8 showed 13-24-, 4-5- and 2.2-2.7-fold induction with caffeine, PB and DDT, respectively. These DNAs also showed a 2-3-fold synergistic effect of caffeine and PB but not of caffeine and DDT. The results suggest that the cis-regulatory elements for all three chemicals are located within the -11/-199 DNA of Cyp6a8. Furthermore, caffeine and PB inductions appear to be mediated via different cis-elements, whereas caffeine and DDT induction may involve common regulatory elements. These stably transformed cell lines should help understand the mechanism of resistance-associated Cyp gene overexpression in Drosophila.