Generation of a Rat Monoclonal Antibody for Human PAICS, a de novo Purine Biosynthetic Enzyme.
Monoclon Antib Immunodiagn Immunother
; 43(4): 108-111, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthetase (PAICS) is a de novo purine biosynthetic enzyme. It has been found to be overexpressed in various types of cancer and is related to cell proliferation, invasion, the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and efficient tumor growth. In this study, we describe a rat monoclonal antibody (mAb) 6A10, which was generated as an antigen of human PAICS. This mAb was generated to interact with the N-terminal region of human PAICS and was found to recognize endogenous PAICS enzymes in several cancer cells. Our results also indicated that it can recognize monkey and dog PAICS, which possess the same amino acid sequence in the antigenic region as human PAICS, but it does not recognize rat and mouse PAICS. Furthermore, our data indicated that this mAb is suitable for immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting use for several cancer cell lines. We, therefore, anticipate that mAb 6A10 will be useful for functional analyses of human PAICS in several cancers and for diagnosis of malignant transformation.
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Antibodies, Monoclonal
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Monoclon Antib Immunodiagn Immunother
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2024
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