Antibody Preparation Method, And Antibody And Antibody Library Thus Prepared

MENG; Xun ;   et al.

Patent Application Summary

U.S. patent application number 15/337563 was filed with the patent office on 2017-02-16 for antibody preparation method, and antibody and antibody library thus prepared. This patent application is currently assigned to AbMART (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.. The applicant listed for this patent is AbMART (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.. Invention is credited to Zeyong CHEN, Xun MENG, GuoXing WANG, XiaoQing WANG.

Application Number20170044245 15/337563
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Family ID46559130
Filed Date2017-02-16

United States Patent Application 20170044245
Kind Code A1
MENG; Xun ;   et al. February 16, 2017

ANTIBODY PREPARATION METHOD, AND ANTIBODY AND ANTIBODY LIBRARY THUS PREPARED

Abstract

Provided is a method for preparing antibodies against a protein of interest, through which highly specific antibodies against all proteins can be effectively and rapidly prepared with low cost, and the epitope to which the antibody is directed can be determined, so that a library covering epitopes on the surface of the proteins of interest and a library of antibodies against all the epitopes can be established. The antibodies are proved to be useful in detection, protein function investigation and antibody pharmaceuticals.


Inventors: MENG; Xun; (Shanghai, CN) ; WANG; XiaoQing; (Shanghai, CN) ; CHEN; Zeyong; (Shanghai, CN) ; WANG; GuoXing; (Shanghai, CN)
Applicant:
Name City State Country Type

AbMART (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.

Shanghai

CN
Assignee: AbMART (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
Shanghai
CN

Family ID: 46559130
Appl. No.: 15/337563
Filed: October 28, 2016

Related U.S. Patent Documents

Application Number Filing Date Patent Number
13982820 Jul 31, 2013 9511342
PCT/CN2012/070768 Jan 30, 2012
15337563

Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: C07K 16/2803 20130101; G01N 33/6854 20130101; B01J 19/0046 20130101; C07K 16/00 20130101; C07K 16/40 20130101; C07K 2317/10 20130101; C07K 16/18 20130101; C07K 16/2809 20130101; C07K 16/28 20130101; C40B 50/06 20130101
International Class: C07K 16/18 20060101 C07K016/18; G01N 33/68 20060101 G01N033/68; C07K 16/28 20060101 C07K016/28

Foreign Application Data

Date Code Application Number
Jan 31, 2011 CN 201110034648.7

Claims



1. An antibody library obtained by: (a) predicting and/or selecting peptide fragment located on the surface of the protein of interest, wherein said peptide fragment is a linear surface signature peptide and/or a conformational surface signature domain of the protein of interest; (b) synthesizing or expressing one or more of said peptide fragments; (c) using the product of step (b) to immunize an animal, optionally in combination with an adjuvant; (d) using lymphocyte from the immunized animal of step (c) to obtain antibodies; (e) using the peptide fragment of step (a) or said protein of interest in native conformation thereof to screen the antibodies obtained in step (d), so as to obtain an antibody library against said protein of interest, wherein said peptide fragment of step (a) is predicted or selected through the following process: (i) determining a surface peptide by calculating a parameter according to the sequence of the protein of interest, said parameter is selected from: solvent accessibility, disorder index, protein-protein interaction domain prediction, or any combination thereof; (ii) aligning the surface peptide determined in step (i) with the proteome of the species that the protein of interest is originated from, so as to select a specific peptide fragment of said protein of interest; (iii) aligning the surface peptide determined in step (i) with homologous proteins from other species, so as to screen a conservative sequence of said protein of interest.

2. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein said protein of interest is a native protein, and/or an alternative splicing isoform thereof, and/or a mutant thereof.

3. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein said signature peptide is a peptide, which is 6-12 amino acids in length, which is high hydrophilic, which has high antigenicity, which is not signal peptide, which is not in the trans-membrane region, and which is located in disordered region.

4. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein said signature domain is a sequence specific protein fragment which is 100-500 amino acids in length, and which is expected to have 3 dimensional structure.

5. The antibody library of claim 1, which is used for producing an antibody library against all the proteins of a species.

6. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the antibody library produced in step (e) comprises antibodies against all the epitopes of the protein of interest.

7. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the antibody obtained in step (d) is obtained through at least one process selected from: (1) fusing lymphocyte from the immunized animal of step (c) with amyeloma cell, so that a hybridoma is generated and then expressed to obtain the antibody; (2) isolating antigen specific B cell from lymphocyte of the immunized animal of step (c), and then using PCR to clone and express the gene of the antibody so as to obtain the antibody; (3) isolating mRNA from lymphocyte of the immunized animal of step (c), and then obtaining the antibody through phage display, or ribosome display, or yeast display, or bacteria display, or Baculovirus display, or mammal cell display, or mRNA display.

8. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein one or more of the peptide fragments of step (b) are recombinantly expressed in the form of a fused protein with a protein which enhances the immunogenicity and/or increases the copy number.

9. The antibody library of claim 8, wherein the protein which enhances the immunogenicity and/or increases the copy number is a virus-like particle protein carrier.

10. The antibody library of claim 9, wherein the protein which enhances the immunogenicity and/or increases the copy number is Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid (HBC) protein.

11. The antibody library of claim 10, wherein said one or more peptide fragments are inserted into loop, N-terminus, or C-terminus of the HBC protein.

12. The antibody library of claim 11, wherein the position into which said one or more peptide fragments are inserted is located between the amino acid residue at position 77 and the amino acid residue at position 82 of the HBC protein.

13. The antibody library of claim 10, wherein 2-10 of the peptide fragments are linked by a linker and inserted into the HBC protein.

14. The antibody library of claim 13, wherein said linker is (GGGGS).sub.n, and wherein n=1, 2, 3 or 4.

15. The antibody library of claim 14, wherein n=1 or 2.

16. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the one or more peptide fragments expressed in step (b) are further coupled with an immune-enhancing protein carrier.

17. The antibody library of claim 16, wherein said immune-enhancing protein carrier is keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH).

18. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the one or more peptide fragments of step (b) are chemically synthesized.

19. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the adjuvant is selected from: Freund's complete adjuvant, aluminum, CpG, or any combination thereof.

20. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein in said step (c) the animal is immunized at multiple sites.

21. The antibody library of claim 20, wherein the immunization at multiple sites is performed at at least 2 sites selected from: neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, front leg armpit, hind leg muscle.

22. The antibody library of claim 20, wherein multiple immunizations are performed, with the time interval of 2-14 days.

23. The antibody library of claim 22, wherein multiple immunizations are performed with the time interval of 3-4 days.

24. The antibody library of claim 22, wherein the immunization protocol used in step (C) comprises the following steps: (A) the first immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle; (B) the second immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle; (C) the third immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit; (D) the fourth immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit.

25. The antibody library of claim 24, wherein the first immunization is performed on the first day, the second immunization is performed on the fifth day, the third immunization is performed on the eighth day, the fourth immunization is performed on the eleventh day.

26. The antibody library of claim 21, wherein multiple immunizations are performed, with the time interval of 2-14 days.

27. The antibody library of claim 26, wherein multiple immunizations are performed with the time interval of 3-4 days.

28. The antibody library of claim 26, wherein the immunization protocol used in step (C) comprises the following steps: (A) the first immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle; (B) the second immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle; (C) the third immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit; (D) the fourth immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit.

29. The antibody library of claim 28, wherein the first immunization is performed on the first day, the second immunization is performed on the fifth day, the third immunization is performed on the eighth day, the fourth immunization is performed on the eleventh day.

30. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the produced antibody is singly IgG subtype.

31. The antibody library of claim 30, wherein the produced antibody is monoclonal antibody.

32. The antibody library of claim 30, wherein the produced antibody is polyclonal antibody.

33. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the antibodies produced in step (d) is screened through affinity sorting in said step (e).

34. The antibody library of claim 1, further comprising a step (f) of screening functional antibody and detection antibody.

35. The antibody library of claim 34, wherein said detection antibody is screened through Western blotting, IP, IF, IHC, flow cytometry, ELISA, or any combination thereof.

36. The antibody library of claim 34, wherein said functional antibody is screened through blocking or neutralizing assay.

37. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein said method can be used to produce detection antibody and/or functional antibody against more than 90% of proteins of interest.

38. The antibody library of claim 1, which comprises antibodies against all the proteins of a specie.

39. The antibody library of claim 1, which comprises antibodies against all the epitopes on the surface of one protein of interest.

40. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein the antibodies are monoclonal antibodies.

41. The antibody library of claim 1, wherein said library comprises antibodies used for detecting the protein of interest in Western blotting, IP, ELISA, IHC, IF or flow cytometry, and/or antibodies used for blocking and/or neutralizing the function of the protein of interest.
Description



CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] The present application is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/982,820 filed 31 Jul. 2013, which in turn is a 35 U.S.C. .sctn.371 National Phase Entry Application of PCT/CN2012/070768, filed 30 Jan. 2012, designating the United States, which in turn claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201110034648.7, filed on 31 Jan. 2011. Each application is incorporated herein by reference.

SEQUENCE SUBMISSION

[0002] The present application is being filed along with a Sequence Listing in electronic format. The Sequence Listing is entitled 2398-114SequenceListing.txt, created on 5 Oct. 2016 and is 68 kb in size. The information in the electronic format of the Sequence Listing is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0003] The present invention relates to a method for the preparation and/or screening of a specific antibody for a protein of interest. The present invention specifically relates to a high-throughput, low-cost method with high success rate, which can be used for predicting epitopes of a protein of interest at proteome level, preparing specific antibodies thereof, and screening and examining the thus produced antibodies.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

[0004] The developments of genomic techniques provide a great deal of basic information at gene level for the investigation of biological functions, diagnosis and treatment of disease, and development of medicaments etc. But for most of the biological systems, the gene information alone is not sufficient for illustrating the function mechanism thereof. Furthermore, if these information as well as the function mechanism are to be used for the purposes of applications, such as identification and analysis for pathological conditions, and verification and determination for the function mechanism of medicaments, then it will be necessary to further obtain more information at the protein level, such as analysis and investigation for various protein propertied like the structure, the function, the expression, the localization, the modification, and the interaction etc.

[0005] The identification for various properties of a protein will need many technical means, such as MS, chromatography, electrophoresis, chip, and various labeling techniques. Many of these technical means will need to be carried out based on antigen-antibody interactions. Further, antigen-antibody interaction per se is also an important technical means, which can be widely used in various fields like scientific researches, medical treatment, and medicament development, such as the development of therapeutic antibody medicament etc. With the development of protein researches, the demand for various antibodies as well as antibody libraries is increasing. For example, it could be necessary to prepare a specific antibody library against all the proteins in the proteome of a specie, or to prepare specific antibodies against a particular type of proteins like kinases or G-protein receptors. However, only limited amount of antibodies against several thousands of proteins are known in the art, and the specificities thereof are not sufficient for the requirements of many technical means. Therefore, it would be important to rapidly and effectively prepare large amount of antibodies against any protein of interest.

[0006] Currently, the commonly used methods for obtaining antibodies include hybridoma techniques, recombinant antibody techniques, various molecular display techniques, and the combination of these techniques with high-throughput techniques.

[0007] For the preparation of antibodies, generally a native or recombinant protein or fragment thereof is used to immunize an animal, so that an antibody that can specifically recognize and bind the protein is produced in the animal. Then various technical means can be used based on corresponding requirements to obtain antibody from the animal, such as monoclonal antibody or polyclonal antibody. The production of monoclonal antibody will typically rely on hybridoma techniques. In such techniques, after immunizing the animal, the cells of the animal will be taken and fused to generate an antibody-producing hybridoma, which will then be cloned to construct a strain for producing antibody, and subsequently the antibody will be purified and identified. The antigen's epitope for the antibody can also be further determined according to the requirements. Such hybridoma techniques for producing monoclonal antibodies were first applied in mouse model (Kohler and Milstein, Nature vol. 256, 1975). Currently they are widely used in various animal models, and the detailed procedure thereof can be seen in various textbooks and operation manuals (such as, Bazin, "Rat hybridomas and rat monoclonal antibodies", CRC Press, 1990; Goding, "Monoclonal antibodies: principles and practice", 3.sup.rd edition, Academic Press, 1996; Shepherd and Dean "Monoclonal antibodies" Oxford University Press, 2000 etc.). Although these methods currently are widely used in the preparations of antibodies, they also have many disadvantages, such as very long preparation periods, very complicated preparation techniques, incomplete recognition of epitopes, and high cost etc. Further, such methods cannot be used for all the proteins, e.g. for many antigens with low immunogenicity or antigens with toxicity, such methods would be inappropriate (Sinclair N R (et al, 2004) B cell/antibody tolerance to our own antigens. Front Biosci 9: 3019-3028).

[0008] Furthermore, in order to obtain monoclonal antibodies with specificity, generally, a chemical synthesized peptide fragment is coupled to a carrier protein, which is then used to immunize a mouse. Such a method can generate an antibody against a single epitope of one protein. But due to the differences in the immunogenicity of different fragments, the overall success rate of such a strategy is relatively low, and especially for proteins with high homology, the fragments of which have poor immunogenicity and can hardly stimulate the mouse to produce potent immune responses. Another commonly used strategy is to produce the immunogen with full length protein or protein fragment, which can partially solve the above problem; but there still exists an disadvantage of poor overall success rate for protein expression (30-70% for commonly used expression and purification systems)(Thorsten Kohl, Christian Schmidt, Stefan Wiemann, Annemarie Poustka and Ulrike Korf. Drew, 2003). For protein fragments with high homology with the proteins of the animal used as model, the immune responses in the animal are generally very weak, and thus the success rate for preparing monoclonal antibody is quite low (Sinclair N R et al, 2004, Automated production of recombinant human proteins as resource for proteome research Proteome Science 2008, 6:4; Sinclair N R (2004) B cell/antibody tolerance to our own antigens. Front Biosci 9: 3019-3028).

[0009] The techniques of recombinant antibody can be various molecular display techniques, so as to produce antibodies (with high affinity to the target) against several antigens, and the antigen epitopes can also be simultaneously determined. Therefore, they are commonly used in the development of medicaments (Christine Rothe, Stefanie Urlinger, Makiko Yamashita et al. The Human Combinatorial Antibody Library HuCAL GOLD Combines Diversification of All Six CDRs According to the Natural Immune System with a Novel Display Method for Efficient Selection of High-Affinity Antibodies. J. Mol. Biol. (2008) 376, 1182-1200, 2007). However, the operation of the techniques of recombinant antibody is complicated, the cost thereof is high, and the yield thereof is relatively low. Further, there often exists non-specific binding. Therefore the large scale application of such techniques is limited. (Levitan, B. Stochastic modeling and optimization of phage display. J. Mol. Biol. 277, 893-916 (1998). Bradbury et al, 2004)

[0010] In order to increase the efficiency of immunization and screening, the above techniques can be combined with high-throughput methods, such as the high-throughput strategy in which several immunogens are simultaneously used for the immunization and chip techniques are used for the screening, e.g. as described in CN200510026873.0. However, such immunization strategy will require a great amount of immunogens with high immunogenicity. This can hardly be accomplished for proteins that are difficult to be expressed, or for proteins with very low immunogenicity.

[0011] Furthermore, in conventional immunization methods using several immunogens, the epitope that the produced antibody is directed to can only be passively determined based on the requirements using particular techniques such as epitope mapping after the antibody is produced (see, Glenn E. Morris, "Methods in Molecular Biology: Epitope Mapping Protocols", Humana Press, 1996). Sometimes the epitope is not unique for the protein of interest, and can present in many other proteins, such that the specificity of the produced antibody is relatively low.

[0012] In order to solve the various problems mentioned above, new methods for preparing and screening antibodies are desired, so as to effectively and rapidly prepare and screen high specific antibodies against all the proteins with low cost.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0013] The present invention provides a method for preparing an antibody against a protein of interest, the method comprises: (a) predicting and/or selecting peptide fragment located on the surface of the protein of interest; (b) synthesizing or expressing one or more of said peptide fragments; (c) using the product of step (b) to immunize an animal, optionally in combination with an adjuvant; (d) using lymphocyte from the immunized animal of step (c) to obtain antibodies; (e) using the peptide fragment of step (a) or said protein of interest in native conformation thereof to screen the antibodies obtained in step (d), so as to obtain an antibody library against said protein of interest.

[0014] In one embodiment, in the method of the invention, said peptide fragment of step (a) is predicted or selected through the following process: (i) determining a surface peptide by calculating a parameter according to the sequence of the protein of interest, said parameter is selected from: solvent accessibility, disorder index, protein-protein interaction domain prediction, or any combination thereof; (ii) aligning the surface peptide determined in step (i) with the proteome of the specie that the protein of interest is originated from, so as to select a specific peptide fragment of said protein of interest; and (iii) aligning the surface peptide determined in step (i) with homologous proteins from other species, so as to screen a conservative sequence of said protein of interest.

[0015] In one embodiment, said peptide fragment of step (a) in the method of the invention is a linear surface signature peptide and/or a conformational surface signature domain of the protein of interest. In one embodiment, said signature peptide is characterized in that: it is 6-12 amino acids in length, it is high hydrophilic, it has high antigenicity, it is not a signal peptide, it is not located in trans-membrane region but rather in disordered region. In another embodiment, said signature domain is a sequence specific protein fragment which is 100-500 amino acids in length, and which is expected to have 3 dimensional structure.

[0016] In one embodiment, one or more of the peptide fragments of step (b) in the method of the invention are recombinantly expressed in the form of a fused protein with a protein which enhances the immunogenicity and/or increases the copy number. In one embodiment, the protein which enhances the immunogenicity and/or increases the copy number is a virus-like particle protein carrier. In one embodiment, said virus-like particle protein carrier is Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid (HBc) protein. In one embodiment, said one or more peptide fragments are inserted into loop, N-terminus, or C-terminus of the HBC protein, e.g. the inserted site can be located between the amino acid residue at position 77 and the amino acid residue at position 82 of the HBC protein. In one embodiment, 2-10 of the peptide fragments linked by linker are inserted into the HBC protein. Said linker can be (GGGGS).sub.n, (SEQ ID NO:158).sub.n, wherein n is any integer, such as 1, 2, 3, or 4.

[0017] In one embodiment, the one or more peptide fragments expressed in step (b) are further coupled with an immune-enhancing protein carrier. In one embodiment, said immune-enhancing protein carrier is keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH).

[0018] In one embodiment, the one or more peptide fragments of step (b) are chemically synthesized.

[0019] In one embodiment, the immunization of step (c) in the method of the invention is optionally performed in combination with an adjuvant, e.g. an adjuvant selected from: Freund's complete adjuvant, aluminum, CpG, or any combination thereof.

[0020] In one embodiment, in said step (c) of the method of in invention, the animal is immunized at multiple sites, e.g. at least 2 sites selected from: neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, front leg armpit, hind leg muscle.

[0021] In one embodiment, multiple immunizations are performed, with the time interval of 2-14 days, such as 3-4 days.

[0022] In one embodiment, the immunization protocol used in step (c) of the method of the invention comprises the following steps:

[0023] (A) the first immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle;

[0024] (B) the second immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle;

[0025] (C) the third immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit; and

[0026] (D) the fourth immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit.

[0027] In one embodiment, the first immunization is performed on the first day, the second immunization is performed on the fifth day, the third immunization is performed on the eighth day, and the fourth immunization is performed on the eleventh day.

[0028] The antibody obtained in step (d) of the method of the invention is obtained through at least one process selected from: (1) fusing lymphocyte from the immunized animal of step (c) with amyeloma cell, so that a hybridoma is generated and then expressed to obtain the antibody; (2) isolating antigen specific B cell from lymphocyte of the immunized animal of step (c), and then using PCR to clone and express the gene of the antibody so as to obtain the antibody; or (3) isolating mRNA from lymphocyte of the immunized animal of step (c), and then obtaining the antibody through phage display, or ribosome display, or yeast display, or bacteria display, or baculovirus display, or mammal cell display, or mRNA display.

[0029] In one embodiment, the antibody produced in the method of the invention is singly IgG subtype.

[0030] In one embodiment, the antibody library produced in step (e) of the method of the invention is an antibody library against all the proteins of a specie. In another embodiment, the antibody library produced in step (e) of the method of the invention comprises antibodies against all the epitopes of the protein of interest.

[0031] In one embodiment, the antibodies produced in step (d) are screened through affinity sorting in step (e) of the method of the invention.

[0032] The method of the invention can also comprise a further step (f) of screening functional antibody and detection antibody. For example, said detection antibody is screened through Western blotting, IP, IF, IHC, flow cytometry, ELISA, or any combination thereof; said functional antibody is screened through blocking or neutralizing assay.

[0033] In another aspect, the invention provides a method for determining epitopes of a protein of interest, and said method comprises the step of using the peptide fragment predicted and/or screened in above mentioned step (a) to construct a detection antigen, which can be used to screen the produced antibodies so as to determine the epitopes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

[0034] FIG. 1: the design diagram and nucleotide sequence of the multiple cloning site. The upper strand sequence is set forth in SQ ID NO:159, and the lower strand is set forth in SEQ ID NO:160.

[0035] FIG. 2: schematic diagram of artificial HBc. The .beta.-gal(8) sequence is set forth in SEQ ID NO:161. The L-N linker is set forth in SEQ ID NO:162. The L-C linker is set forth in SEQ ID NO:163.

[0036] FIG. 3: the structure of H vector.

[0037] FIG. 4: Western result for the verification of 4A1 antibody. C2C12 cells were lysed with RIPA buffer (50 mM Tris pH7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1% Triton-X-100, 1% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS lysis buffer) containing protease inhibitor (Roche), electrophoresed with SDS-PAGE, and then transferred to PVDF membrane; 1:5 diluted supernatant of monoclonal antibody cell strain culture was added, ECL Plus (Amersham) was used for the examination. WB: Western blotting.

[0038] FIG. 5: IF verification data for 4A1 antibody. 5.times.10.sup.3 BHK cells were inoculated on a cell slide and cultured at 37.degree. C. overnight, after being fixed with chilled methanol (-20.degree. C.) for 15 min, washed with 1.times.PBS for 2.times.3 min, and blocked with 1% BSA at room temperature for 1 h, they were then incubated at room temperature for 1 hour with the addition of 1:1 supernatant of monoclonal antibody cell strain culture, and washed; they were incubated at room temperature for 1 hour with the addition of secondary antibody anti-mouse Dylight 549 (Abcam) at 1:400 and DAPI at 1:4000, washed, and then examined with fluorescence microscope (Olympus) with a picture being taken.

[0039] FIG. 6: Western result for the verification of the antibody 1A6 produced against GPR116 protein. WB: Western blotting.

[0040] FIG. 7: Western result for the verification of the antibody 2F1 produced against Aof1 protein. WB: Western blotting

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0041] Unless otherwise specified, all the technical and scientific terms have common meanings known to a person skilled in the art. The patents, patent applications, publications, GenBank sequences, websites and other published material are all incorporated herein as references in their entirety, unless otherwise specified.

[0042] The present invention provides a method for producing an antibody of a protein of interest, which can be used to efficiently and rapidly prepare highly specific antibodies of the protein with low-cost, so as to construct a epitope library encompassing the surface epitopes of a protein of interest and an antibody library against all the epitopes. The method also provides a method for indicating the specific epitope that an antibody is directed to.

[0043] The present invention provides a method for preparing an antibody against a protein of interest, the method comprises: (a) predicting and/or selecting peptide fragment located on the surface of the protein of interest; (b) synthesizing or expressing one or more of said peptide fragments; (c) using the product of step (b) to immunize an animal, optionally in combination with an adjuvant; (d) using lymphocyte from the immunized animal of step (c) to obtain antibodies; (e) using the peptide fragment of step (a) or said protein of interest in native conformation thereof to screen the antibodies obtained in step (d), so as to obtain an antibody library against said protein of interest.

[0044] As used herein, the term "a protein of interest" refers to any native protein, or an isoform of a native protein obtained through alternative splicing, or a mutant of a native protein, or any combination of the various proteins mentioned above. "Alternative splicing" as used herein refers to a process of producing different mRNA splicing isomers from a same mRNA precursor through different splicing manners (i.e. combining exons through different splicing sites). The protein products obtained through alternative splicing are isoforms to each other, which may exhibit different functional and structural properties, or may result in different phenotypes due to different expression levels in a same cell. "Mutant" as used herein refers to a mutated protein obtained through substitution, deletion, or addition of one or more amino acids in a native protein.

[0045] The term "peptide fragment" as used herein refers to a continuous or incontinuous amino acids sequence in the protein of interest, which can be a continuous linear polypeptide, and which can also be a combination of incontinuous polypeptides constituting the domain conformation.

[0046] In one embodiment of the invention, said peptide fragment of step (a) is predicted or selected through the following process: (i) determining a surface peptide by calculating a parameter according to the sequence of the protein of interest, said parameter is selected from: solvent accessibility, disorder index, protein-protein interaction domain prediction, or any combination thereof; (ii) aligning the surface peptide determined in step (i) with the proteome of the specie that the protein of interest is originated from, so as to select a specific peptide fragment of said protein of interest; and (iii) aligning the surface peptide determined in step (i) with homologous proteins from other species, so as to screen a conservative sequence of said protein of interest. In one embodiment, said peptide fragment in step (a) is linear surface signature peptide and/or a conformational surface signature domain of the protein of interest.

[0047] The term "surface peptide" as used herein refers to linear peptide fragment located on the surface of the protein of interest, and/or combination of incontinuous polypeptides located on the surface of the protein of interest that constitute the domain conformation. The term "signature peptide" as used herein refers to a unique linear continuous peptide sequence in the protein of interest when compared to other protein sequences in the proteome of the same specie. The term "signature domain" as used herein refers to a unique domain in the protein of interest when compared to the domains of other protein in the proteome of the same specie. The term "surface signature peptide" and "surface signature domain" respectively refer to "signature peptide" and "signature domain" located on the surface of the native conformation of a protein.

[0048] The term "solvent accessibility" refers to an indicator representing the degree that an amino acids within a protein exposes to the conformational surface of the protein (see, Bent Petersen, Thomas Nordahl Petersen, Pernille Andersen Morten Nielsen and Claus Lundegaard. A generic method for assignment of reliability scores applied to solvent accessibility predictions. BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9:51).

[0049] The term "disorder index" used herein is a parameter representing the complexity of amino acids (see, Predrag Radivojac, Lilia M. Iakoucheva, Christopher J. Oldfield, Zoran Obradovic, Vladimir N. Uversky, and A. Keith Dunker. Intrinsic Disorder and Functional Proteomics. Biophysical Journal Volume 92, 1439-1456 (2007)).

[0050] As used herein, "protein-protein interaction domain prediction" means that, in protein-protein interaction, some domains play a key role in the interaction, and binding manner of two proteins can be predicted by analyzing the amino acid composition of the proteins. Typical software such as Autodock can be used (see, Bin Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Lei Lin, Buzhou Tang, Qiwen Dong and Xuan Wang. Prediction of protein binding sites in protein structures using hidden Markov support vector machine. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:381).

[0051] As used herein, the term "proteome" refers to the collection of all the proteins expressed by the genome of a certain specie, or by a certain cell or tissue or cell.

[0052] The sequence alignment in the invention can be performed using various methods known in the art, such as using various conventional softwares or online services, e.g. BLASTP as provided by NCBI.

[0053] The prediction and/or selection in the invention mean that: based on bioinformatics methods, through secondary structure prediction, comparison in the same genome, structural prediction of homologous proteins, signature peptides and/or signature domains are first defined for a certain protein as potential epitopes, wherein said signature peptides and/or signature domains have protein specificity and can cover relatively large portion of the protein.

[0054] Such bioinformatics methods are widely used for the prediction of protein structures, functions and interactions. For example, Berglund L. et al. (see, Protein Science, 17:606-613, 2008) introduced a method for screening specific epitopes at proteome level against the entire human proteome, wherein based on sequence alignment for sliding windows of 8, 10, 12 amino acid residues, heuristic processes are used to predict the sequence identity of every human protein against the entire human proteome. Based on such method, at least one specific epitop can be found for 90% of human protein. Anderson H P et al. (see, Protein Science, 15:2558-2567, 2006) introduced method DiscoTope for predicting incontinuous epitopes using 3D structural data. This method assesses amino acids statistics, spatial information, and surface accessibility based on incontinuous epitopes determined in X-ray structure of antigen-antibody protein complex. Yan C H et al. (see, BMC Bioinformatics, 7:262, 2006) introduces a method for predicting potential DNA-biding sites through amino acid sequence, which uses Naive Bayes classifier to predict whether a certain amino acid sequence is a DNA-binding site.

[0055] In one embodiment, the signature peptide of the invention is 6-12 amino acids in length, it is high hydrophilic, it has high antigenicity, it is not a signal peptide, and it is not located in trans-membrane region but rather in disordered region. In one embodiment, the signature domain of the invention is a sequence specific protein fragment which is 100-500 amino acids in length, and which is expected to have 3 dimensional structure.

[0056] In one embodiment, in step (a) of the method of the invention, several peptide fragments located on the surface of the protein of interest are predicted and/or selected, e.g. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 peptide fragments, until all the peptide fragments located on the surface of the protein of interest that can be used as potential epitopes are predicted and/or selected.

[0057] In one embodiment, said several peptide fragments are designed as one tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens. For example, said tandem polypeptide of immunizing antigens can be designed as follows: predicting immunizing parameters of the protein of interest, such as antigenicity, hydrophilicity, accessibility, isoelectric point, predicting the signaling, and predicting the trans-membrane region; the setting rules for parameters like specificity can be seen in Kolaskar A S et al. FEBS Lett. 276(1-2):172-4, 1990; Parker J M et al., Biochemistry. 25(19):5425-32, 1986; Emini E A et al., J Virol. 55(3): 836-9, 1985. For any protein of interest, the prediction results for isoelectric point and signal-peptide are first used to exclude these regions in the protein. For example, a sliding window with the length of 5-20 amino acids can be set, and then sequentially moved for one amino acid along the protein. The sequences of the sliding windows are added into a collection. As an example, for a protein with the length of n amino acids (suppose it has no signal-peptide or trans-membrane region), all together n-9 short peptide sequences can be generated (the length of the sliding window is 10 amino acids). For every short peptide, the isoelectric point, accessibility, immunogenicity, hydrophilicity, and specie specificity according to BLAST methods can be calculated (see, Kolaskar A S et al., FEBS Lett. 276(1-2):172-4, 1990; Parker J M et al., Biochemistry. 25(19):5425-32, 1986; Emini E A et al., J Virol. 55(3): 836-9, 1985). When the isoelectric point is larger than 3.5, the weighted average value of the above parameters are calculated for every short peptide (0.2*immunogenicity+0.1*accessibility+0.2*hydrophilicity+0.5*specie specificity). These short peptides are sorted according to the weighted average value, and the short peptides having the highest score and with an inter-peptide overlap <3 are selected, e.g. 7 short peptides are selected.

[0058] The peptide fragment of the invention can be obtained by any known techniques in the art, e.g. by recombinant expression or by chemical synthesis. That is, the peptide fragment of the invention can be expressed in prokaryotic or eukaryotic expression systems using recombinant expression methods known in the art, or the peptide fragment can be synthesized using conventional chemical methods.

[0059] In one example, e.g. for a protein the expression and purification of which are difficult, or for a protein which has very low immunogenicity, in order to prepare specific antibodies, expression vectors with high immunogenicity and soluble protein expression systems with high success rate can be used to facilitate the production of these proteins as potential antigens. Virus-like particle protein carrier Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid (HBc) protein can be mentioned as an example.

[0060] HBC protein is a non-infectious virus-like particle carrier that can carry peptides of various sources. It can be used to combine target peptide so as to generate high-titer antibody response, and thus is widely used in vaccine preparation. HBC protein can carry foreign amino acids at particular sites such as loops, N-terminus or C-terminus, and a foreign sequence of up to 238amino acids can be displayed on the surface of the protein so as to promote the generation of immune-response. Detailed description of HBC carrier can be seen in: Good M F et al., Science, 235:1059-1063, 1987; Pumpens P and Grens E, Intervirology, 44:98-114, 2001; Clarke B E et al., Nature 330:381-384, 1987; Francis M J et al., Nature 330:168-170, 1987; Whitacre D C et al., Expert Rev. Vaccines 8:11 1565-1573, 2009.

[0061] In one embodiment, the one or more peptide fragments in step (b) of the method of the invention are inserted into loop, N-terminus, or C-terminus of the HBC protein, e.g. into a position between the amino acid residue at position 77 and the amino acid residue at position 82 of the HBC protein. 2-10 of the peptide fragments of the invention can also be linked by linker and then inserted into the HBC protein. Said linker can be any linker in the art, e.g. (GGGGS).sub.n, wherein n is any integer, such as 1, 2, 3, or 4.

[0062] For instance, in one example, N (5.ltoreq.N.ltoreq.20) peptide fragments with relatively high immunogenicity and specificity are selected, and the lengths thereof may be M (5.ltoreq.M.ltoreq.20) amino acids. In order to avoid the generation of new antigen epitope between different peptide fragments, one or more linkers GGGGS with low immunogenicity are inserted between different peptide fragments, so as to connect said peptide fragments in tandem. For different lengths of proteins, different lengths (5.ltoreq.M.ltoreq.20) of the peptide fragment can be selected. The number of the inserted fragments can be between 5-20, the length of the peptide fragment can be, e.g. 6-12 amino acids, and the number of the fragments can be, e.g. less than 10.

[0063] In an embodiment of the invention, the one or more peptide fragments expressed in step (b) can also be further coupled with an immune-enhancing protein carrier, and said immune-enhancing protein carrier can be, e.g. keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). KLH protein is an oxygen-carrying metalloprotein originated from Megathura crenulata, which is commonly used as carrier protein for generating antibodies. The many epitopes contained therein and its differences with mammal-derived protein make KLH a good carrier protein for generating antibodies. The applications of KLH protein can be seen in Harris J R et al., Micron. 30(6):597-623, 1999 and WO 2001/047552.

[0064] The immunization of animal in step (c) can be conducted using any methods known in the art. The animal used for immunization in the invention can be conventional animals in the art, e.g. mouse, rat, rabbit, sheep, goat, horse, cattle etc.

[0065] In one embodiment, an appropriate adjuvant can be used, so as to rapidly and effectively obtain antibodies of a single subtype and with high titer. In one embodiment, the antibodies obtained through the method of the invention can be antibodies mainly comprising single IgG subtype. The adjuvant used in the invention can be selected from: Freund's complete adjuvant, aluminum, CpG, or any combination thereof.

[0066] In one embodiment, the method of the invention comprises multiple immunizations in an animal. The specific protocol of using multiple sites immunization strategy for rapid production of antibodies with high affinity can be seen in Kilpatrick K E et al., (Hybridoma 16:(4) 381-389, 1997). The protocol for adjusting the affinity and subtype of antibodies can be seen in Karagouni L et al., Scand. J. Immunol. 31:745-754, 1990, and Petty R E et al., Immunology 32:49-55, 1977.

[0067] The multiple immunizations in an animal of the invention can be conducted at at least 2 sites selected from: neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, front leg armpit, hind leg muscle.

[0068] In one embodiment of the invention, multiple immunizations are conducted in an animal. The time interval between multiple immunizations can be determined based on common technical knowledge in the art, e.g. 2-14 days, such as 3 or 4 days.

[0069] In one embodiment, the immunization in step (c) of the method of the invention comprises the following steps:

[0070] (A) the first immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle;

[0071] (B) the second immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle;

[0072] (C) the third immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit; and

[0073] (D) the fourth immunization: the expression product of step (b) together with the adjuvant of aluminum+CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit.

[0074] In a more specific embodiment, the immunization in step (c) of the method of the invention comprises the following steps:

[0075] (A) the first immunization: 20 .mu.g of the expression product of step (b) in 250 .mu.l buffer together with 250 .mu.l Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, tail end, hind foot palm, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and 20 .mu.g of the expression product of step (b) in 500 .mu.l buffer together with the adjuvant of 25 .mu.l aluminum+10 .mu.g CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle;

[0076] (B) the second immunization: 10 .mu.g of the expression product of step (b) in 250 .mu.l buffer together with 250 .mu.l Freund's complete adjuvant are used to immunize the animal at neck and back, hind leg inguen, and front leg armpit; and 10 .mu.g of the expression product of step (b) in 500 .mu.l buffer together with the adjuvant of 25 .mu.l aluminum+10 .mu.g CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle;

[0077] (C) the third immunization: 10 .mu.g of the expression product of step (b) in 500 .mu.l buffer together with the adjuvant of 25 .mu.l aluminum+10 .mu.g CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit; and

[0078] (D) the fourth immunization: 10 .mu.g of the expression product of step (b) in 500 .mu.l buffer together with the adjuvant of 25 .mu.l aluminum+10 .mu.g CpG are used to immunize the animal at hind leg muscle, tail end, and front leg armpit.

[0079] In one embodiment, the first immunization is performed on the first day, the second immunization is performed on the fifth day, the third immunization is performed on the eighth day, the fourth immunization is performed on the eleventh day, and the fusion is performed on the fourteenth day. The obtained antibodies are mostly IgG subtype with matured affinity. Antibodies of IgG subtype have the advantages of higher affinity, better stability and easier for purification as compared to IgM.

[0080] The antibody obtained from lymphocyte of the immunized animal in step (d) of the method of the invention can be obtained through any methods known in the art. As used herein, the term "lymphocyte" refers to a cell of lymphoid organs or a cell produced in lymphoid organs, and the lymphoid organs include central lymphoid organs (also referred to as primary lymphoid organ) and peripheral lymphoid organ (also referred to as secondary lymphoid organ). The former includes thymus, bursa of fabricius and equivalent organs thereof (such as marrow of mammals), and the latter includes spleen and lymph nodes etc.

[0081] In one embodiment, the antibody is obtained through at least one process selected from: (1) fusing lymphocyte from the immunized animal of step (c) with amyeloma cell, so that a hybridoma is generated and then expressed to obtain the antibody; (2) isolating antigen specific B cell from lymphocyte of the immunized animal of step (c), and then using PCR to clone and express the gene of the antibody so as to obtain the antibody; or (3) isolating mRNA from lymphocyte of the immunized animal of step (c), and then obtaining the antibody through phage display, or ribosome display, or yeast display, or bacteria display, or Baculovirus display, or mammal cell display, or mRNA display.

[0082] Detailed introductions for hybridoma technique can be seen in Bazin, "Rat hybridomas and rat monoclonal antibodies", CRC Press, 1990; Goding, "Monoclonal antibodies: principles and practice", 3.sup.rd edition, Academic Press, 1996; Shepherd and Dean "Monoclonal antibodies" Oxford University Press, 2000, etc.

[0083] In step (d) of the method of the invention, the antibody can also be obtained through phage display, or ribosome display, or yeast display, or bacteria display, or Baculovirus display, or mammal cell display, or mRNA display. These methods are all conventional techniques in the art, the specific operations thereof can be seen in corresponding textbooks or operation manuals, see, e.g. Mondon P et al., Front. Biosci. 13:1117-1129, 2008. Using phage display as an example, separate antibody genes are inserted into the DNA of phage, so that the variable regions on the antibody molecules that can bind the antigens are coupled to the capsid protein of phage. After the phage infecting E. coli., single stranded DNA is replicated in E. coli., and the phage is reassembled and secreted into the culture medium, while the E. coli. is not lysed. The phage is co-incubated with target antigens; and after the bound phages are isolated, amplification and purification are then conducted so that a great amount of clones can be screened. The phage display technique can be seen in Liu, J. et al., Chin. J. Cell Mol. Immunol., 2004: 20(6) 773-775; CN03131796.0; WO 2009/109572, and WO 2009/085462.

[0084] The antibody produced in the method of the invention can be monoclonal antibody, and can also be polyclonal antibody. In one embodiment, the invention involves an antibody library screened and prepared using the method of the invention against all the proteins of interest of one specie. In another embodiment, the invention involves an antibody library screened and prepared using the method of the invention against all the epitopes of one protein of interest.

[0085] As used herein, the terms "antibody", "monoclonal antibody", "polyclonal antibody", "epitope" are common term in the art, the meanings of which are in accordance with the general understanding of a person skilled in the art and can also be referred to common textbooks and manuals.

[0086] As used herein, the term "antibody library" refers to a collection of antibodies comprising many different antibodies. An antibody library can comprise antibodies against several different proteins, and it can also comprise antibodies against different epitopes of a same protein.

[0087] The "screen" used in step (e) of method of the invention means using the peptide fragment of step (a) or the protein of interest in its native conformation to screen the antibodies obtained in step (d). In one embodiment, the antibodies produced in step (d) is screened through affinity sorting in step (e) of the method of the invention. The identification method for an antibody can be seen in Griswold W R et al., Immunology letters, 1984: 229-232; Van Heyningen V et al., Journal of Immunological Methods, 62: 147-153, 1983; and Rath S et al., Journal of Immunological Methods, 106: 245-249, 1988.

[0088] In one embodiment, the method of the invention can also comprise a further step (f) of screening functional antibody and detection antibody. For example, said detection antibody is screened through Western blotting, IP, IF, IHC, flow cytometry, ELISA, or any combination thereof; or said functional antibody is screened through blocking or neutralizing assay

[0089] The detection antibody as used herein refers to an antibody that can react with an antigen and can then be detected through techniques in the art, such as Western blotting, IP, IF, IHC, flow cytometry, or ELISA etc.

[0090] The functional antibody as used herein refers to an antibody that can react with an antigen and can then affect (e.g. block or neutralize) a biological function of the antigen.

[0091] As an example, antibodies against the protein of interest are screened using the following method: the protein of interest or fragment thereof is biotinylated, and then over-expressed in eukaryotic cells like 293 cells; the over-expressed biotinylated protein or fragment thereof is added into a plate coated with streptavidin; then the antibodies obtained in step (e) of the invention are added for ELISA assay, so as to obtain antibodies with positive reaction.

[0092] One monoclonal antibody 4A1 of the invention is produced by hybridoma strain 4A1, and said hybridoma strain 4A1 was deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jan. 28, 2011, with the deposition No. CCTCC C201107. Another monoclonal antibody 1A6 of the invention is produced by hybridoma strain 1A6, and said hybridoma strain 1A6 was deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jan. 28, 2011, with the deposition No. CCTCC C201108. One monoclonal antibody 2F1 of the invention is produced by hybridoma strain 2F1, and said hybridoma strain 2F1 was deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jan. 28, 2011, with the deposition No. CCTCC C201109.

[0093] In another aspect, the present invention provides an antibody library produced according to the method of the invention. In one embodiment, said antibody library comprises antibodies against all the proteins of interest. In one embodiment, said antibody library comprise antibodies against all the epitopes on the surface of one protein of interest. In one embodiment, said antibodies in the library are monoclonal antibodies.

[0094] In another aspect, the present invention also provides a method for determining the epitope that the produced antibody is directed to, comprising the step of using the peptide fragments predicted and/or screened in above mentioned step (a) to construct a detection antigen, which can be used to screen the produced antibodies so as to determine the epitopes.

[0095] As used herein, the term "detection antigen" refers to a fused protein constructed using the peptide fragments predicted and/or screened in above steps. Said detection antigen can be used for conducting screening against several proteins, wherein it contains one epitope for each of the protein to be screened.

[0096] In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes a strategy that can conducts a screening against N proteins, and the number of epitopes and the number of proteins designed for each protein can all be N (5.ltoreq.N.ltoreq.20), with the prerequisite that number of epitopes selected for each protein is identical.

[0097] As an example, for 5 proteins, 5 antigen epitopes are determined for each protein during the design of the immunization antigens, which are represented by A, B, C, D, E respectively (see table 1). For example, the epitopes for immunization antigen are A1, B1, C1, D1, and E1 respectively. The number of epitopes and the number of proteins here can both be N (5.ltoreq.N.ltoreq.20).

[0098] The detection antigen for 5 proteins uses the five polypeptide epitopes in one column as one new protein sequence (see table 1, e.g., detection antigen A comprises A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5).

[0099] During the screening process, every fused positive cloning well (obtained by screening of immunization antigens), is respectively screened using 5 detection antigens, and through typical ELISA screening, so as to determine which polypeptide epitope each positive clone is directed to. Based on such results, positive cells directed to each epitopes are preferably selected for strain construction and subsequent identification, so as to avoid the situation when the epitopes are unknown and the positive clones are mostly directed to a certain most advantageous epitope so that the obtained cell strains are homogeneous.

TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 The design method for immunization antigen detec- detec- detec- detec- detec- tion tion tion tion tion antigen antigen antigen antigen antigen A B C D E immunization antigen 1 A1 B1 C1 D1 E1 immunization antigen 2 A2 B2 C2 D2 E2 immunization antigen 3 A3 B3 C3 D3 E3 immunization antigen 4 A4 B4 C4 D4 E4 immunization antigen 5 A5 B5 C5 D5 E5

[0100] In summary, the method of the invention uses bioinformatics techniques to predict and/or select peptide fragments on the surface of a protein of interest as potential epitopes. The method of the invention can be used to effectively and rapidly obtain antibodies against a protein of interest with low cost, and the method of the invention can be used to obtain all the antibodies against epitopes on the surface of the native conformation of a protein of interest. Furthermore, the method of the invention can also use combination screening to determine epitopes on the surface of the native conformation of a protein of interest through, identify the particular epitope that an antibody is directed to, and further examine and screen the produced antibodies.

[0101] The several key factors for successful applications of an antibody include the recognition site of the antibody (epitope), affinity and specificity. As for monoclonal antibody, when the epitopes are unknown, the obtained antibodies are generally focused on a certain epitope with advantageous immunogenicity. The unity of epitopes can result in failure when applying an antibody, which is mainly related to the position of the epitope. In the case when the epitopes that the antibodies recognize are known, then antibodies of several epitopes are preferably obtained, so that the influences of incorrect epitope position can be decreased, and the success rate of cell strain applications can be greatly increased.

[0102] The advantage of the invention lies in the preparation of large amount of antibodies. The method has the propertied of high success rate (antibodies successfully used in Western applications can be obtained for >90% of the proteins), and low-cost. The success rates for proteins with high homology, receptor protein domains, and proteins of mouse are all very high. The significance of preparing antibodies against mouse proteins is in that, the functional antibodies screened therefrom, can be used for antibody treatment experiments in mouse models, which is important for clinical researches. As for membrane receptor proteins, when using functional domains to prepare antibodies, it will be more advantageous in obtaining antibodies with blocking functions, and benefits the developments of antibody medicaments. The antibody library constructed using the method of the invention can be further used for developing functional antibodies. Furthermore, the high-throughput epitope screening strategy ensures that the corresponding epitope recognition information is specifically clear for every cell strain obtained, which is important both for investigating antibody-protein interactions and for using several epitopes to determine the expression information of a certain protein.

[0103] The invention will be further illustrated using the following specific examples. The following examples are only used for describing the invention, with no intention of limiting the present invention. Various modifications and alterations may be made to the invention by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and such modifications and alterations are also encompassed in the protection scope as defined in the appended claims.

EXAMPLES

Example 1

Modification of Vectors

A the Design for HBC Vector Modification

[0104] First a segment of designed multiple cloning site (MCS: GGATCCTATCAGATCTATCGGGTACCGTATCGCGGCCGCTTCCAT ATGG AA TTC (SEQ ID NO: 1)) was used to replace the c/e1 loop of the cDNA for Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid protein (HBc), i.e. the nucleotides encoding the amino acids at positions 76-82 of HBc protein. The schematic diagram and sequence of said MCS can be seen in FIG. 1. Then, the nucleotide sequences encoding the two linkers L-N and L-C were linked to the two ends of said MCS, and the nucleotides encoding amino acids at position 76-82 of HBc protein were replaced, wherein in the two ends of the two linkers L-N and L-C, the E represented glutamic acid, G represented glycin, and S represented serine. Subsequently, the nucleotide sequences encoding the sequence elements 6.times.His tag (HHHHHH; SEQ ID NO:164), .beta.-gal (MTMITDSL; SEQ ID NO:161), and linker (EFH) were added to in front of the cDNA. The nucleotide sequence of the modified HBc is shown in FIG. 2.

B Complete Gene Synthesis

[0105] DNA Works software (obtained from http colon slash slash helixweb dot nih dot gov slaxh dnaworks/) was used to design HBc nucleotide sequence through codon optimization, as shown below:

TABLE-US-00002 (SEQ ID NO: 2) CCATGGGCAGCAGCCACCATCATCACCACCACATGACCATGATCACCGAT AGCCTGGAGTTCCATATCGATCCGTACAAGGAATTTGGCGCGACCGTGGA ACTGCTGAGCTTCCTGCCGAGCGACTTTTTTCCAAGCGTGCGTGACCTGC TGGATACGGCGAGCGCACTGTATCGTGAAGCGCTGGAAAGCCCGGAACAT TGCAGCCCGCATCATACCGCGCTGCGTCAGGCGATTCTGTGCTGGGGCGA ACTGATGACCCTGGCGACCTGGGTGGGCGGCAATGAAGAAGGTGGTGGCG GTAGCGGCGGTGGCGGATCCTATCAGATCTATCGGGTACCGTATCGCGGC CGCTTCCATATGGAATTCGGTGGCGGCGGCAGCGGCGGTGGTGGCAGCGA AGAAGACCTGGTTGTGAGCTATGTGAACACCAATATGGGCCTGAAGTTTC GTCAGCTGCTGTGGTTTCATATTAGCTGCCTGACCTTTGGCCGCGAAACC GTGATTGAATACCTGGTGAGCTTTGGCGTGTGGATTCGTACCCCACCGGC GTATCGTCCGCCGAATGCGCCAATTCTGAGCACCCTGCCGGAAACGACCG TTTAAGAGCTCCGTCGACAAGCTTGCGGCCGCACTCGAG

[0106] The optimized HBC nucleotide sequence was synthesized using the following primers as shown in table 2, and primers as shown were synthesized by SBSGENE co. ltd. (Shanghai, China).

TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 2 The primer sequences for complete gene synthesis Name of primers Sequences of the primers (5'-3') H_01 CATGCCATGGGCAGCAGCCACCATCATCACCACCACATGA CC (SEQ ID NO: 3) H_02 CTCCAGGCTATCGGTGATCATGGTCATGTGGTGGTGATGA (SEQ ID NO: 4) H_03 TGATCACCGATAGCCTGGAGTTCCATATCGATCCGTACAA GG (SEQ ID NO: 5) H_04 CCACGGTCGCGCCAAATTCCTTGTACGGATCGATATGGAA (SEQ ID NO: 6) H_05 TGGCGCGACCGTGGAACTGCTGAGCTTCCTGCCGAGCGAC (SEQ ID NO: 7) H_06 CAGGTCACGCACGCTTGGAAAAAAGTCGCTCGGCAGGAAG (SEQ ID NO: 8) H_07 CAAGCGTGCGTGACCTGCTGGATACGGCGAGCGCACTGTA (SEQ ID NO: 9) H_08 TCCGGGCTTTCCAGCGCTTCACGATACAGTGCGCTCGCCG (SEQ ID NO: 10) H_09 CGCTGGAAAGCCCGGAACATTGCAGCCCGCATCATACCGC (SEQ ID NO: 11) H_10 CAGCACAGAATCGCCTGACGCAGCGCGGTATGATGCGGGC (SEQ ID NO: 12) H_11 GTCAGGCGATTCTGTGCTGGGGCGAACTGATGACCCTGGC (SEQ ID NO: 13) H_12 TTCATTGCCGCCCACCCAGGTCGCCAGGGTCATCAGTTCG (SEQ ID NO: 14) H_13 GGTGGGCGGCAATGAAGAAGGTGGTGGCGGTAGCGGCGGT (SEQ ID NO: 15) H_14 ACCCGATAGATCTGATAGGATCCGCCACCGCCGCTACCGC (SEQ ID NO: 16) H_15 GGATCCTATCAGATCTATCGGGTACCGTATCGCGGCCGCT (SEQ ID NO: 17) H_16 CCGCCGCCACCGAATTCCATATGGAAGCGGCCGCGATACG (SEQ ID NO: 18) H_17 ATTCGGTGGCGGCGGCAGCGGCGGTGGTGGCAGCGAAGAA (SEQ ID NO: 19) H_18 TCACATAGCTCACAACCAGGTCTTCTTCGCTGCCACCACC (SEQ ID NO: 20) H_19 CCTGGTTGTGAGCTATGTGAACACCAATATGGGCCTGAAG (SEQ ID NO: 21) H_20 AACCACAGCAGCTGACGAAACTTCAGGCCCATATTGGTGT (SEQ ID NO: 22) H_21 TCGTCAGCTGCTGTGGTTTCATATTAGCTGCCTGACCTTT (SEQ ID NO: 23) H_22 AATCACGGTTTCGCGGCCAAAGGTCAGGCAGCTAATATGA (SEQ ID NO: 24) H_23 GCCGCGAAACCGTGATTGAATACCTGGTGAGCTTTGGCGT (SEQ ID NO: 25) H_24 CGCCGGTGGGGTACGAATCCACACGCCAAAGCTCACCAGG (SEQ ID NO: 26) H_25 CGTACCCCACCGGCGTATCGTCCGCCGAATGCGCCAATTC (SEQ ID NO: 27) H_26 GTCGTTTCCGGCAGGGTGCTCAGAATTGGCGCATTCGGCG (SEQ ID NO: 28) H_27 ACCCTGCCGGAAACGACCGTTTAAGAGCTCCGTCGACAAG (SEQ ID NO: 29) H_28 CCGCTCGAGTGCGGCCGCAAGCTTGTCGACGGAGCTCTT AAA (SEQ ID NO: 30)

[0107] 5 .mu.l of each of the synthesized primers H_01 to H_28 were taken (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M/L) and mixed. Such mixed primers were used as template, and the first round of PCR amplification was conducted under the catalysis of PFU enzyme (ShenNengBoCai co. ltd., Shanghai, China). The PCR conditions were as: 94.degree. C., 2 min; 30 cycles (94.degree. C., 30 s; 60.degree. C., 30 s; 72.degree. C., 1 min); 72.degree. C., 10 min; 10.degree. C., 10 min. 2 .mu.l of the PCR product of the first round was then taken as template, and primers H_01 and H_28 (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M/L) were used for conducting the amplification, with the amplification conditions as set forth above. 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis was performed, and the target fragments (having the fragment of the above mentioned optimized HBC nucleotide sequence) were recovered.

[0108] The above obtained HBc DNA was digested by NcoI/XhoI (NEB, MA) for 4 h. The digested products were recovered (DNA recovery kit obtained from TIANGEN Biotech (Beijing) co., ltd), ligated onto digested pET28a vector (Novagen, Merck, Germany) by T4 ligase (NEB, MA), and then transformed into TOP10 competent cells. After the clones grown the next day were verified by colony PCR and BamHI/EcoRI (NEB, MA) digestion, 3 of the positive clones were picked for sequencing, and the sequencing primers were T7 promoter primers (Biosune, co. ltd. Shanghai, China). The new vector that was sequenced and successfully identified was named as H vector, the structure of which is shown in FIG. 3.

Example 2

The Design, Expression and Purification of Desmin Immunization Antigen

[0109] The Desmin protein has an identity of 97% with corresponding mouse protein, and the full length amino acid sequence of Desmin is:

TABLE-US-00004 (SEQ ID NO: 31) 1 MSQAYSSSQR VSSYRRTFGG APGFPLGSPL SSPVFPRAGF GSKGSSSSVT SRVYQVSRTS 61 GGAGGLGSLR ASRLGTTRTP SSYGAGELLD FSLADAVNQE FLTTRTNEKV ELQELNDRFA 121 NYIEKVRFLE QQNAALAAEV NRLKGREPTR VAELYEEELR ELRRQVEVLT NQRARVDVER 181 DNLLDDLQRL KAKLQEEIQL KEEAENNLAA FRADVDAATL ARIDLERRIE SLNEEIAFLK 241 KVHEEEIREL QAQLQEQQVQ VEMDMSKPDL TAALRDIRAQ YETIAAKNIS EAEEWYKSKV 301 SDLTQAANKN NDALRQAKQE MMEYRHQIQS YTCEIDALKG TNDSLMRQMR ELEDRFASEA 361 SGYQDNIARL EEEIRHLKDE MARHLREYQD LLNVKMALDV EIATYRKLLE GEESRINLPI 421 QTYSALNFRE TSPEQRGSEV HTKKTVMIKT IETRDGEVVS EATQQQHEVL

[0110] Trans-membrane helixes, lysis sites, and signal peptides in the protein sequence were predicted based on several artificial neural networks and hidden Markov analysis, and the results showed that the protein do not have trans-membrane domain or signal peptide, and the distribution of hydrophilic and hydrophobic amino acids was relatively even.

[0111] Peptides of 11-12 amino acids were generated according to the design method for tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens mentioned in the Section of Detailed Description of the Invention. For every short peptide, the isoelectric point, accessibility, immunogenicity, hydrophilicity, and specie specificity according to BLAST methods were calculated. When the isoelectric point was larger than 3.5, the weighted average value of the above parameters were calculated for every short peptide (0.2*immunogenicity+0.1*accessibility+0.2*hydrophilicity+0.5*spec- ie specificity). These short peptides were sorted according to the weighted average values, and the short peptides having the highest score and with an inter-peptide overlap <3 are selected. 5 linear surface signature peptides with the length of 11-12 amino acids were selected (see table 3), and these peptides were linked using linker GGGGS (SEQ ID NO:158), to form tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens.

[0112] According to the searching for said protein, it was discovered that it do not contain trans-membrane structures or signal-peptide. Analysis according to the above principle was performed for the full length protein, and 5 surface signature sequences were determined. The sequence of the finally determined tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens of Desmin H vector was: RETSPEQRGSEV-GGGGS-KVSDLTQAANK-GGGGS-RLKGREPTRVAE-GGGGS-VEVLTNQRARVD-GGGG- S-EESRINLPIQTY(SEQ ID NO: 32).

TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 3 The selection of tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens Starting site Ending site (based on (based on Genbank: Genbank: AAF15400.1 amino AAF15400.1 amino Peptide sequences length/aa acid numbering) acid numbering) RETSPEQRGSEV (SEQ ID NO: 33) 12 429 440 KVSDLTQAANK (SEQ ID NO: 34) 11 299 309 RLKGREPTRVAE (SEQ ID NO: 35) 12 142 153 VEVLTNQRARVD (SEQ ID NO: 36) 12 166 177 EESRINLPIQTY (SEQ ID NO: 37) 12 412 423

B Complete Gene Synthesis Method for Tandem Polypeptide of Immunization Antigens

[0113] After codon optimization, it was determined that the nucleotide sequence (encoding the tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens of SEQ ID NO:32) that needs to be completely synthesized is:

TABLE-US-00006 (SEQ ID NO: 38) GACACggatccCGTGAAACCAGCCCGGAACAGCGTGGCAGCGAAGTGGGT GGTGGAGGTTCTAAAGTGAGCGATCTGACCCAGGCGGCGAATAAAGGGGG AGGCGGCAGCCGTCTGAAAGGCCGTGAACCGACCCGTGTGGCGGAAGGTG GGGGTGGAAGCGTGGAAGTGCTGACCAATCAGCGTGCGCGTGTGGATGGC GGTGGCGGCTCGGAAGAAAGCCGTATTAATCTGCCGATTCAGACCTATGg aatttcgTGTC

[0114] According to complete gene synthesis method, all together 10 primer sequences were designed, see table 4. The complete gene synthesis method can be seen in Example 1. Briefly, 5 .mu.l of the synthesized primers 1_01 to 1_10 were taken (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M) and mixed. Such mixed primers were used as template, and the first round of PCR amplification was conducted under the catalysis of PFU enzyme (ShenNengBoCai co. ltd., Shanghai, China). The PCR conditions were as: 94.degree. C., 2 min; 30 cycles (94.degree. C., 30 s; 60.degree. C., 30 s; 72.degree. C., 1 min); 72.degree. C., 10 min; 10.degree. C., 10 min. 2 .mu.l of the PCR product of the first round was then taken as template, and primers 1_01 and 1_10 (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M) were used for conducting the amplification, with the amplification conditions as set forth above. 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis was performed, and the target fragments (i.e. the nucleotide sequence to be completely synthesized) were recovered.

TABLE-US-00007 TABLE 4 The nucleotide sequences for the complete gene synthesis of immunization antigens Nucleotides Primer number of names Primer sequences(5'-3') each primer 1_01 GACACggatccCGTGAAACCAGCCCGGAACAGCGTGG 37 (SEQ ID NO: 39) 1_02 AGAACCTCCACCACCCACTTCGCTGCCACGCTGTTCCGGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 40) 1_03 TGGGTGGTGGAGGTTCTAAAGTGAGCGATCTGACCCAGGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 41) 1_04 CTGCCGCCTCCCCCTTTATTCGCCGCCTGGGTCAGATCGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 42) 1_05 GGGGGAGGCGGCAGCCGTCTGAAAGGCCGTGAACCGACCC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 43) 1_06 CTTCCACCCCCACCTTCCGCCACACGGGTCGGTTCACGGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 44) 1_07 GAAGGTGGGGGTGGAAGCGTGGAAGTGCTGACCAATCAGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 45) 1_08 CACCGCCATCCACACGCGCACGCTGATTGGTCAGCACTTC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 46) 1_09 CGTGTGGATGGCGGTGGCGGCTCGGAAGAAAGCCGTATTA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 47) 1_10 GACACgaattcATAGGTCTGAATCGGCAGATTAATACGGC 51 TTTCTTCCGAG (SEQ ID NO: 48)

Example 3

Expression and Purification of the Tandem Polypeptide of Immunization Antigens

[0115] The sequence of SEQ ID NO: 38 which was completely synthesized in Example 2 was digested using BamHI/EcoRI, and then was ligated through T4 ligase at room temperature for 2 h with the H vector digested with BamHI/EcoRI and recovered in Example 1. The ligated product was incubated on ice (4.degree. C.) for 0.5 h with Rosetta competent cells (Novagen, Merck, Germany) prepared by CaCl.sub.2 method, and was heat-activated at 42.degree. C. for 90 s. The heat-activated bacteria liquid was supplemented with 200 .mu.l-500 .mu.l LB liquid medium with no antibiotics. The composition of the medium was: 10 g/L Tryptone (Oxoid, England), 5 g/L Yeast Extract (Oxoid, England), 10 g/L NaCl (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China). The bacteria liquid was then slowly shaked on a 37.degree. C. shaker at 100 rpm for 45 min, and finally was plated on LB plates with corresponding antibiotics. The bacteria plates were cultured in 7.degree. C. incubator overnight.

[0116] The next day, the transformed colonies were picked into auto-induction system culture medium, and the composition of the medium was: 10 g/L Tryptone (Oxoid, England), 5 g/L yeast extract (Oxoid, England), 3.3 g/L (NH.sub.4).sub.2SO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 6.8 g/L KH.sub.2PO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 7.1 g/L Na.sub.2HPO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 0.5 g/L glucose (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 2.0 g/L a-Lactose (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 0.15 g/L MgSO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China). The culture was expressed at 37.degree. C., 250 rpm overnight. The next day, the bacteria liquid was centrifuged (6,000 g, 5 min), the supernatant was discarded, and the pellet was resuspended using lysis buffer (50 mM Tris, 500 mM NaCl, 4M urea, 1 mM PMSF, pH7.4) and was lysed overnight at room temperature.

[0117] 25 ml (5 times of the column volume) of the lysis buffer was used for pre-equilibration of Ni.sup.2+-NTA column (Qiagen, Germany), and the column was placed in still for future uses. After centrifugation (15,000 g, 10 min) of the cell lysis liquid, the supernatant was applied on the column and incubated at room temperature for 1 h. After the incubation, the liquid to be lysed naturally flew out from the column, 30 ml washing buffer (4M urea, 50 mM Tris, 500 mM NaCl, 30 mM imidazole, pH 7.4) was used for washing, and finally 5 ml elution buffer (4M urea, 50 mM Tris, 500 mM NaCl, 500 mM imidazole, pH 7.4) was used for eluting and collecting the protein. The eluted protein was dialysed into buffer (phosphate buffer of pH5.8), and the composition of the buffer was: 25.39 g/L NaH.sub.2PO.sub.4--H.sub.2O (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 5.73 g/L Na.sub.2HPO.sub.4-12H.sub.2O (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China). The buffer was changed twice during the process, and the dialysis was all together performed for 24 h.

[0118] 1.5 mg polypeptide was obtained after the dialysis, the concentration was 0.3 mg/ml, and the purity was >95%.

Example 4

The Design, Expression and Purification of Detection Antigens

A the Design of Detection Antigens

[0119] The information for the polypeptide of immunization antigens of the following 5 proteins including Desmin was collected, and the sequences are in Table 5.

TABLE-US-00008 TABLE 5 The design of immunization antigens for proteins Protein name The sequence of the polypeptide of immunization antigens Desmin RETSPEQRGSEV-GGGGS-KVSDLTQAANK-GGGGS-RLKGREPTRVAE-GG GGS-VEVLTNQRARVD-GGGGS-EESRINLPIQTY (SEQ ID NO: 49) vimentin LRPSTSRSLYAS-GGGGS-INETSQHHDDLE-GGGGS-AINTEFKNTRT-GGG GS-EQLKGQGKSRLG-GGGGS-QREEAENTLQSF (SEQ ID NO: 50) CD3g KKKWNLGSNAKD-GGGGS-DGVRQSRASDK-GGGGS-CKGSQNKSKPL-G GGGS-VKVYDYQEDGSV-GGGGS-EAKNITWFKDGK (SEQ ID NO: 51) CD3e DKNIGGDEDDK-GGGGS-EEMGGITQTPYK-GGGGS-CYPRGSKPEDA-GGG GS-DHLSLKEFSELE-GGGGS-GQRDLYSGLNQR (SEQ ID NO: 52) CD79a VQEGNESYQQSC-GGGGS-EDAHFQCPHNSS-GGGGS-RKRWQNEKLGLD- GGGGS-EDISRGLQGTY-GGGGS-GPGEDPNGTLII (SEQ ID NO: 53)

[0120] The sequences of corresponding detection antigens were determined according to the design strategy of detection antigens. The main strategy was to respectively name 5 surface signature peptide sequences of each protein as ABCDE according to the 5 sequences of the polypeptide of immunization antigens of 5 proteins, and then combined the A epitopes of each protein to get detection antigen A. Similarly detection antigens B-E were obtained. The specific information for the detection antigens was shown in Table 6.

TABLE-US-00009 TABLE 6 The amino acids sequences for detection antigens Detection RETSPEQRGSEV-LRPSTSRSLYAS-KKKWNLGSNAKD-DKNIGGDEDDK- antigen A VQEGNESYQQSC (SEQ ID NO: 54) Detection KVSDLTQAANKN-INETSQHHDDLE-DGVRQSRASDK-EEMGGITQTPYK- antigen B EDAHFQCPHNSS (SEQ ID NO: 55) Detection RLKGREPTRVAE-AINTEFKNTRT-CKGSQNKSKPL-CYPRGSKPEDA- antigen C RKRWQNEKLGLD (SEQ ID NO: 56) Detection VEVLTNQRARVD-EQLKGQGKSRLG-VKVYDYQEDGSV-DHLSLKEFSELE- antigen D EDISRGLQGTY (SEQ ID NO: 57) Detection EESRINLPIQTY-QREEAENTLQSF-EAKNITWFKDGK-GQRDLYSGLNQR- antigen E GPGEDPNGTLII (SEQ ID NO: 58)

B Complete Gene Synthesis of the Detection Antigens

[0121] DNA Works software was used for codon optimization of the sequences of the designed detection antigens in Table 6, and the primers for synthesizing the optimized nucleotide sequences of the detection antigens were synthesized by SBSGENE co. ltd. (Shanghai, China). The nucleotide sequences of the optimized 5 detection antigens were:

[0122] Detection Antigen A:

TABLE-US-00010 (SEQ ID NO: 59) CGTGAAACCAGCCCGGAACAGCGTGGCAGCGAAGTGCTGCGTCCGAGCA CCAGCCGTAGCCTGTATGCGAGCAAGAAAAAATGGAATCTGGGCAGCAAT GCGAAAGATGACAAAAACATTGGCGGCGACGAGGATGATAAGGTGCAGGA AGGCAACGAAAGCTATCAGCAAAGCTGC

[0123] Detection Antigen B:

TABLE-US-00011 (SEQ ID NO: 60) AAAGTGTCAGACCTGACCCAGGCGGCGAATAAGAACATTAACGAAACCA GCCAGCATCACGATGATCTGGAAGATGGCGTGCGTCAGAGCCGTGCGAGC GATAAAGAAGAAATGGGCGGCATTACCCAGACCCCGTATAAAGAGGATGC ACATTTTCAGTGCCCGCATAATAGCAGC

[0124] Detection Antigen C:

TABLE-US-00012 (SEQ ID NO: 61) CGTCTGAAAGGCCGTGAACCGACCCGTGTGGCGGAAGCGATTAACACCG AATTTAAGAATACCCGTACCTGCAAAGGCAGCCAGAATAAATCGAAACCG CTGTGCTATCCGCGTGGCAGCAAACCGGAAGATGCGCGTAAACGGTGGCA GAATGAAAAACTGGGCCTGGAT

[0125] Detection Antigen D:

TABLE-US-00013 (SEQ ID NO: 62) GTGGAAGTGCTGACCAATCAGCGTGCGCGTGTGGATGAACAGCTGAAAG GCCAGGGCAAAAGCCGTCTGGGTGTGAAAGTGTATGATTATCAGGAAGAT GGCAGCGTGGATCATCTGAGCCTGAAAGAATTTAGCGAACTGGAAGAAGA CATCAGCCGTGGGCTGCAGGGCACCTAT

[0126] Detection Antigen E:

TABLE-US-00014 (SEQ ID NO: 63) GAAGAAAGTCGTATTAATCTGCCGATTCAGACCTATCAGCGTGAGGAAG CGGAAAATACCCTGCAGTCGTTTGAAGCGAAAAACATTACCTGGTTCAAA GATGGCAAAGGCCAGCGGGATCTGTATAGCGGCCTGAACCAACGTGGTCC GGGCGAAGATCCGAATGGCACCCTGATTATT

[0127] According to the nucleotide sequences of the detection antigens and the BamH I and EcoR I digestions sites introduced into the synthesized sequences, 8 primers were respectively designed, and the sequences thereof were in Tables 7-11. The complete gene synthesis method was the same to Example 1.

[0128] 5 .mu.l of the synthesized primers 2_01 to 2_10 for detection antigen A were taken (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M) and mixed. Such mixed primers were used as template, and the first round of PCR amplification was conducted under the catalysis of PFU enzyme (ShenNengBoCai co. ltd., Shanghai, China). The PCR conditions were as: 94.degree. C., 2 min; 30 cycles (94.degree. C., 30 s; 60.degree. C., 30 s; 72.degree. C., 1 min); 72.degree. C., 10 min; 10.degree. C., 10 min 2 .mu.l of the PCR product of the first round was then taken as template, and primers 2_01 and 2_10 (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M) were used for conducting the amplification, with the amplification conditions as set forth above. 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis was performed, and the target fragments (i.e. the nucleotide sequence to be completely synthesized) were recovered.

[0129] The complete gene synthesis methods for detection antigens B-E were completely the same to that of detection antigen A, only with the exception that the sequences of the primers were different.

[0130] After being double-digested with the two enzymes BamH I and EcoR I, the completely synthesized nucleotide sequences of the detection antigens were ligated into pET32a vectors (Novagen, Merck, Germany) digested by the same enzymes.

TABLE-US-00015 TABLE 7 The primers for the complete gene synthesis of the detection antigen A Nucleotides Primer number of names Primer sequences (5'-3) each primer 2_01 GACACggatccCGTGAAACCAGCCCGGAACAGCGTGGCA 39 (SEQ ID NO: 64) 2_02 CTGGTGCTCGGACGCAGCACTTCGCTGCCACGCTGTTCCG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 65) 2_03 GCGTCCGAGCACCAGCCGTAGCCTGTATGCGAGCAAGAAA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 66) 2_04 ATTGCTGCCCAGATTCCATTTTTTCTTGCTCGCATACAGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 67) 2_05 TGGAATCTGGGCAGCAATGCGAAAGATGACAAAAACATTG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 68) 2_06 TATCATCCTCGTCGCCGCCAATGTTTTTGTCATCTTTCGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 69) 2_07 CGGCGACGAGGATGATAAGGTGCAGGAAGGCAACGAAAGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 70) 2_08 GACACgaattcGCAGCTTTGCTGATAGCTTTCGTTGCCTTCCTG 44 (SEQ ID NO: 71)

TABLE-US-00016 TABLE 8 The primers for the complete gene synthesis of the detection antigen B Nucleotides Primer number of names Primer sequences (5'-3') each primer 3_01 GACACggatccAAAGTGTCAGACCTGACCCAGGCGGCGAATAA 39 (SEQ ID NO: 72) 3_02 TGCTGGCTGGTTTCGTTAATGTTCTTATTCGCCGCCTGGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 73) 3_03 AACGAAACCAGCCAGCATCACGATGATCTGGAAGATGGCG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 74) 3_04 CGCTCGCACGGCTCTGACGCACGCCATCTTCCAGATCATC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 75) 3_05 GAGCCGTGCGAGCGATAAAGAAGAAATGGGCGGCATTACC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 76) 3_06 CATCCTCTTTATACGGGGTCTGGGTAATGCCGCCCATTTC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 77) 3_07 AGACCCCGTATAAAGAGGATGCACATTTTCAGTGCCCGCA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 78) 3_08 GACACgaattcGCTGCTATTATGCGGGCACTGAAAATG 38 (SEQ ID NO: 79)

TABLE-US-00017 TABLE 9 The primers for the complete gene synthesis of the detection antigen C Nucleotides Primer number of names Primer sequences (5'-3') each primer 4_01 GACACggatccCGTCTGAAAGGCCGTGAACCGAC 34 (SEQ ID NO: 80) 4_02 TGTTAATCGCTTCCGCCACACGGGTCGGTTCACGGCCTTT 40 (SEQ ID NO: 81) 4_03 TGGCGGAAGCGATTAACACCGAATTTAAGAATACCCGTAC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 82) 4_04 TTCTGGCTGCCTTTGCAGGTACGGGTATTCTTAAATTCGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 83) 4_05 TGCAAAGGCAGCCAGAATAAATCGAAACCGCTGTGCTATC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 84) 4_06 TCTTCCGGTTTGCTGCCACGCGGATAGCACAGCGGTTTCG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 85) 4_07 GGCAGCAAACCGGAAGATGCGCGTAAACGGTGGCAGAATG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 86) 4_08 GACACgaattcATCCAGGCCCAGTTTTTCATTCTGCCACCGTTTACG 47 (SEQ ID NO: 87)

TABLE-US-00018 TABLE 10 The primers for the complete gene synthesis of the detection antigen D Nucleotides Primer number of names Primer sequences (5'-3') each primer 5_01 GACACggatccGTGGAAGTGCTGACCAATCAGCGTGCGCGTG 42 (SEQ ID NO: 88) 5_02 GCCCTGGCCTTTCAGCTGTTCATCCACACGCGCACGCTGA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 89) 5_03 GCTGAAAGGCCAGGGCAAAAGCCGTCTGGGTGTGAAAGTG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 90) 5_04 TGCCATCTTCCTGATAATCATACACTTTCACACCCAGACG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 91) 5_05 ATGATTATCAGGAAGATGGCAGCGTGGATCATCTGAGCCT 40 (SEQ ID NO: 92) 5_06 TTCCAGTTCGCTAAATTCTTTCAGGCTCAGATGATCCACG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 93) 5_07 GAAAGAATTTAGCGAACTGGAAGAAGACATCAGCCGTGGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 94) 5_08 GACACgaattcATAGGTGCCCTGCAGCCCACGGCTGATGTCTT 43 (SEQ ID NO: 95)

TABLE-US-00019 TABLE 11 The primers for the complete gene synthesis of the detection antigen E Nucleotides Primer number of names Primer sequences (5'-3') each primer 6_01 GACACggatccGAAGAAAGTCGTATTAATCTGCCGATTCAGACC 44 (SEQ ID NO: 96) 6_02 CCGCTTCCTCACGCTGATAGGTCTGAATCGGCAGATTAAT 40 (SEQ ID NO: 97) 6_03 CAGCGTGAGGAAGCGGAAAATACCCTGCAGTCGTTTGAAG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 98) 6_04 TTGAACCAGGTAATGTTTTTCGCTTCAAACGACTGCAGGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 99) 6_05 CGAAAAACATTACCTGGTTCAAAGATGGCAAAGGCCAGCG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 100) 6_06 TTGGTTCAGGCCGCTATACAGATCCCGCTGGCCTTTGCCA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 101) 6_07 ATAGCGGCCTGAACCAACGTGGTCCGGGCGAAGATCCGAA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 102) 6_08 GACACgaattcAATAATCAGGGTGCCATTCGGATCTTCGCCCG 43 (SEQ ID NO: 103)

G the Expression and Purification of the Detection Antigens

[0131] The above DNA sequences of the 5 corresponding detection antigens that were prepared by complete gene synthesis were integrated into PET32a vectors (Novagen) through BamHI/EcoRI restriction sites, and then 5 plasmids were obtained.

[0132] The composition of auto-induction system culture medium was: 10 g/L Tryptone (Oxoid, England), 5 g/L yeast extract (Oxoid, England), 3.3 g/L(NH.sub.4).sub.2SO.sub.4(Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 6.8 g/L KH.sub.2PO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 7.1 g/L Na.sub.2HPO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 0.5 g/L glucose (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 2.0 g/L a-Lactose (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China), 0.15 g/L MgSO.sub.4 (Sinopharm Group, Shanghai, China).

[0133] Said plasmids were respectively transformed into Rosseta strains. Transformed colonies were picked into auto-induction system culture medium (see example 3), and were expressed at 37.degree. C. 250 rpm overnight. The next day, the bacteria liquid was centrifuged (6,000 g, 5 min), and the supernatant was discarded. The pellet was resuspended using lysis buffer (50 mM Tris, 500 mM NaCl, 4M urea, protease inhibitor, pH 7.4) and was lysed overnight.

[0134] 25 ml (5 times of the column volume) of the lysis buffer was used for pre-equilibration of Ni.sup.2+-NTA column, and the column was placed in still for future uses. After centrifugation (15,000 g, 10 min) of the cell lysis liquid, the supernatant was applied on the column and incubated at room temperature for 1 h. After the incubation, the liquid to be lysed naturally flew out from the column, 30 ml washing buffer (4M urea, 50 mM Tris, 500 mM NaCl, 30 mM imidazole, pH 7.4) was used for washing, and finally 5 ml elution buffer (4M urea, 50 mM Tris, 500 mM NaCl, 500 mM imidazole, pH 7.4) was used for eluting and collecting the protein.

[0135] The purified amount of detection antigen A was 0.8 mg, with the purity of 80%; the purified amount of detection antigen B was 0.65 mg, with the purity of 90%; the purified amount of detection antigen C was 1.2 mg, with the purity of 85%; the purified amount of detection antigen D was 1.5 mg, with the purity of 75%; the purified amount of detection antigen E was 0.9 mg, with the purity of 95%.

Example 5

Preparation of Monoclonal Antibodies

A Immunization Method

[0136] Oligonucleotide adjuvant: 50 .mu.l aluminum adjuvant (Thermo Fisher, USA)+1 .mu.g DNA adjuvant, and the sequence thereof was tccatgacgttcctgacgtT (SEQ ID NO: 104), wherein the bases in lower case were sites that need thio-modifications, the oligonucleotide was synthesized by SBSGENE co. ltd. (Shanghai, China).

[0137] As for protein antigens in the experiments, the dosage for each mouse and each immunization can be any dosage between 2-200 .mu.g, and the time interval for each immunization can be 2-14 days. The immunization method and dosages for the synthesized protein Desmin (SEQ ID NO:32) were as follows.

[0138] Immunization method: 3 Balb/c mice, 8-10 weeks old, body weight 18-20 g. 20 .mu.g antigen was completely emulsified with Freund's complete adjuvant (Sigma), and the immunization sites were hind foot palm, tail end, and front leg armpit as well as inguen, wherein about 50 .mu.L was applied for each site. 20 .mu.g antigen was completely mixed with the oligonucleotide adjuvant, and was then used to immunize the mice at hind leg muscle, wherein 50-100 .mu.L was applied for each site.

[0139] On the eighth day, 10 .mu.g antigen was taken and completely emulsified with Freund's complete adjuvant (Sigma), which was used to immunize the mice at front leg armpit and inguen, wherein 50-100 .mu.L was applied for each site. 20 .mu.g antigen was completely mixed with the oligonucleotide adjuvant, and was then used to immunize the mice at hind leg muscle, wherein 50-100 .mu.L was applied for each site.

[0140] On the twelfth day, 10 .mu.g antigen was completely mixed with the oligonucleotide adjuvant, and was then used to immunize the mice at hind leg muscle.

[0141] On the fourteenth day, blood was taken from eyepit of the mice, and ELISA method was used to examine the serum titer, wherein the serum titers of the mice were all higher than 1:32000.

B Cell Fusion and Screening

[0142] The preparation of relevant media: the basic medium used was 1640 medium (Thermo, USA), and the serum concentration in the complete medium was 15%, wherein the serum was purchased from Biowest, Spain, and HAT and HT stock solutions were purchased from Sigma, Germany

[0143] On the fifteenth day, the mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation. The lymph-node cells of 2 mice were taken for the fusion with SP20 cells (ATCC, USA), the cells were suspended (final cell density was about 10.sup.6/ml), and then were plated on 4 384 plates, with 80 .mu.L for each well. The cell plates were cultured at 37.degree. C., 5% CO.sub.2 for 6 days, and then were completely changed to HT complete medium. 8 days after the fusion, 10 .mu.L cell supernatant was taken, and diluted 5 times, for ELISA assay.

[0144] The immunogen (H carrier protein carrying the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:32) was diluted to 1 .mu.g/ml using 0.01M Na.sub.2CO.sub.3/NaHCO.sub.3 buffer. 100 .mu.L was added into each well, and coating was performed at 4 degree overnight. The plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. 5% milk was used for blocking at 37.degree. C. for 1 h, and the plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. The cell fusion plate supernatant was taken, 20 .mu.L for each well, 80 .mu.L of 5% milk was supplemented, and the plates were then incubated at 37.degree. C. for 1 h. The plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. 100 .mu.L of HRP labeled caprice-anti-mouse antibody (Abmart, 1:8000) was added into each well, and the plates were then incubated at 37.degree. C. for 1 h. The plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. Horse radish peroxidase substrate TMB (Sigma) solution was added, and the plates were then incubated at 37.degree. C. for 15 min 50 .mu.L of 2M H.sub.2SO.sub.4 solution was added into each well to terminate the reaction, and the absorption at 450 nm was read.

[0145] The detection antigens A-E were respectively diluted to 1 .mu.g/ml using 0.01M Na.sub.2CO.sub.3/NaHCO.sub.3 buffer, and 100 .mu.L was added into each well, and coating was performed at 4 degree overnight. The plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. 5% milk was used for blocking at 37.degree. C. for 1 h, and the plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well.

[0146] 50 .mu.L of supernatant was taken from wells that were preliminarily identified as positive, 200 .mu.L of 5% milk was supplemented, and 50 .mu.L, was respectively taken and added into the ELISA plates for detection antigens 1-5. The plates were incubated at 37.degree. C. for 1 h, swung to clean the solution therein, and then washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. 100 .mu.L of HRP labeled caprice-anti-mouse antibody (Abmart, 1:8000) was added into each well, and the plates were then incubated at 37.degree. C. for 1 h. The plates were swung to clean the solution therein, and were washed by PBST for 3 times, with 250 .mu.L/well. Horse radish peroxidase substrate TMB (Sigma) solution was added, and the plates were then incubated at 37.degree. C. for 15 min 50 .mu.L of 2M H.sub.2SO.sub.4 solution was added into each well to terminate the reaction, and the absorption at 450 nm was read.

[0147] The data for the epitopes screening were shown in table 12. The wells that were positive to different detection antigens were just the antibodies against different antigen epitopes, and the screening results can be seen in table 13. 5 polypeptide fragments of SEQ ID NO:32 were named as epitopes A, B, C, D, E according to the sequence from N-terminus to C-terminus.

[0148] Since each detection antigen only carried one protein surface signature peptide related to the immunization antigen, every detection antigen positive clone (OD larger than 0.5), was directed to the first polypeptide of the immunization antigen (the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:32). For example, the well of detection antigen A4 was positive for ELISA detection (see table 12, OD=2.092), since the detection antigen A carried the sequence of RETSPEQRGSEV-the first surface linear signature peptide of SEQ ID NO:32 polypeptide (see tables 5 and 6), it can be determined from such results that the recognition epitope of the antibody clone in A4 well was the first surface linear signature peptide--RETSPEQRGSEV. Such strategy was used to determine the sequences recognized by different positive wells.

TABLE-US-00020 TABLE 12 The epitopes screening results for the wells of fusion positive clone Detection antigens 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Detection 0.058 0.077 0.132 2.092 0.089 0.066 0.085 0.069 0.073 0.084 2.148 0.117 A antigen A 0.08 0.071 0.074 0.08 0.072 0.089 0.106 0.089 1.942 0.093 0.107 0.088 B Detection 0.087 2.595 0.062 0.066 0.085 0.069 0.084 2.045 0.089 0.088 0.081 0.069 C antigen B 0.074 2.181 0.061 0.072 0.089 1.942 0.093 0.093 0.107 0.065 0.063 0.063 D Detection 0.062 0.132 2.595 0.103 0.085 0.066 0.101 0.093 0.13 2.027 0.058 0.063 E antigen C 0.07 0.074 0.066 0.13 0.092 0.069 2.075 0.082 0.075 0.125 0.058 0.058 F Detection 0.068 0.068 0.136 0.076 0.06 1.994 0.075 0.139 1.923 0.067 0.053 0.070 G antigen D 0.085 0.062 1.575 0.059 0.066 0.083 0.067 0.064 0.076 0.072 0.064 0.080 H Detection 0.076 0.061 0.086 0.06 0.067 0.09 0.064 0.101 0.106 0.077 0.073 0.068 I antigen E 0.054 0.066 0.065 0.073 0.073 0.062 0.083 0.07 0.065 0.068 0.062 0.066 J

TABLE-US-00021 TABLE 13 The epitopes screening results and corresponding clone number Number of cell Epitopes The sequences of epitopes strains A RETSPEQRGSEV (SEQ ID NO: 105) 3 B KVSDLTQAAN (SEQ ID NO: 106) 4 C RLKGREPTRVAE (SEQ ID NO: 107) 3 D VEVLTNQRARVD (SEQ NO: 108) 3 E EESRINLPIQTY (SEQ ID NO: 109) 0

[0149] 2 positive wells of each epitopes were respectively picked to conduct limiting dilution for sub-cloning. After 3 rounds of sub-clonings, 10 strains of stable hybridoma cell strains were obtained, and corresponding cell strain culture supernatants were collected for the antibody verification in Example 6. These cell strains were respectively directed to the 4 polypeptide epitopes (SEQ ID NO: 105-108) of Desmin, wherein 7 cell strains were identified as having an affinity KD lower than 10 nM.

Example 6

The Data for Antibody Verification

A the Experiment Procedure of Western Blotting

[0150] C2C12 cells (ATCC, USA) were lysed with RIPA buffer (50 mM Tris pH7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1% Triton-X-100, 1% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS lysis buffer) containing protease inhibitor (Roche), quantified by BCA (ShenNengBoCai co. ltd.), and diluted by 5.times. loading buffer. After 10 minutes denaturation at 100.degree. C., 20-30 ng was loaded for each lane, and 10% SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis was performed. After PVDF membrane transfer, 5% skimmed milk was used for blocking for 1 h. The supernatant of monoclonal cell strain against Desmin (the cell culture supernatant of the cell strain selected in Example 5) 1:5 was added, and then incubation at room temperature was conducted for 1 hour. 1.times.PBST was used for washing 3.times.5 min. The secondary antibody-HRP coupled anti-mouse IgG (Abmart, M210015) was added at 1:5000, and then incubation at room temperature was conducted for 30 min 1.times.PBST was used for washing 3.times.5 min. ECL Plus (Amersham, USA) was used for the detection.

B the Experiment Procedure of Immuno-Fluorescence (IF)

[0151] 5.times.10.sup.3 BHK cells (ATCC, USA) were inoculated on a cell slide (SUPER GRADE MICROSCOPE SLIDES) and cultured at 37.degree. C. overnight, after being fixed with chilled methanol (-20.degree. C.) for 15 min, washed with 1.times.PBS for 2.times.3 min, and blocked with 1% BSA at room temperature for 1 h, they were then incubated at room temperature for 1 hour with the addition of 1:1 supernatant of monoclonal antibody cell strain culture as primary antibody, and washed with 1.times.PBST for 3.times.5 min; they were incubated at room temperature for 1 hour with the addition of secondary antibody anti-mouse Dylight 549 (Abcam) at 1:400 and DAPI at 1:4000, washed with 1.times.PBST for 3.times.5 min, and then examined with fluorescence microscope (Olympus) with a picture being taken.

[0152] The antibodies against different epitopes were verified by Western. The 7 cell strains obtained in Example 5 can specifically recognize endogenous Desmin of C2C12 cell line, wherein the antibody 4A1 produced by the cell strain named 4A1 (deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jan. 28, 2011, with the deposition No. CCTCC C201107) had the best affinity and specificity, and favorite results were obtained in both Western blotting and immuno-fluorescence (see, FIGS. 4 and 5).

Example 7

Preparation of Domain-Specific Antibodies of Membrane Receptor Protein GPR116

A the Selection of Protein Surface Signature Domain:

[0153] GPR116 protein is a membrane receptor protein, the specie thereof is human, and the NCBI No. thereof is NP_001091988.1. The full length protein is as following:

TABLE-US-00022 (SEQ ID NO: 110) 1 MKSPRRTTLC LMFIVIYSSK AALNWNYEST IHPLSLHEHE PAGEEALRQK RAVATKSPTA 61 EEYTVNIEIS FENASFLDPI KAYLNSLSFP IHGNNTDQIT DILSINVTTV CRPAGNEIWC 121 SCETGYGWPR ERCLHNLICQ ERDVFLPGHH CSCLKELPPN GPFCLLQEDV TLNMRVRLNV 181 GFQEDLMNTS SALYRSYKTD LETAFRKGYG ILPGFKGVTV TGFKSGSVVV TYEVKTTPPS 241 LELIHKANEQ VVQSLNQTYK MDYNSFQAVT INESNFFVTP EIIFEGDTVS LVCEKEVLSS 301 NVSWRYEEQQ LEIQNSSRFS IYTALFNNMT SVSKLTIHNI TPGDAGEYVC KLILDIFEYE 361 CKKKIDVMPI QILANEEMKV MCDNNPVSLN CCSQGNVNWS KVEWKQEGKI NIPGTPETDI 421 DSSCSRYTLK ADGTQCPSGS SGTTVIYTCE FISAYGARGS ANIKVTFISV ANLTITPDPI 481 SVSEGQNFSI KCISDVSNYD EVYWNTSAGI KIYQRFYTTR RYLDGAESVL TVKTSTREWN 541 GTYHCIFRYK NSYSIATKDV IVHPLPLKLN IMVDPLEATV SCSGSHHIKC CIEEDGDYKV 601 TFHTGSSSLP AAKEVNKKQV CYKHNFNASS VSWCSKTVDV CCHFTNAANN SVWSPSMKLN 661 LVPGENITCQ DPVIGVGEPG KVIQKLCRFS NVPSSPESPI GGTITYKCVG SQWEEKRNDC 721 ISAPINSLLQ MAKALIKSPS QDEMLPTYLK DLSISIDKAE HEISSSPGSL GAIINILDLL 781 STVPTQVNSE MMTHVLSTVN VILGKPVLNT WKVLQQQWTN QSSQLLHSVE RFSQALQSGD 841 SPPLSFSQTN VQMSSMVIKS SHPETYQQRF VFPYFDLWGN VVIDKSYLEN LQSDSSIVTM 901 AFPTLQAILA QDIQENNFAE SLVMTTTVSH NTTMPFRISM TFKNNSPSGG ETKCVFWNFR 961 LANNTGGWDS SGCYVEEGDG DNVTCICDHL TSFSILMSPD SPDPSSLLGI LLDIISYVGV 1021 GFSILSLAAC LVVEAVVWKS VTKNRTSYMR HTCIVNIAAS LLVANTWFIV VAAIQDNRYI 1081 LCKTACVAAT FFIHFFYLSV FFWMLTLGLM LFYRLVFILH ETSRSTQKAI AFCLGYGCPL 1141 AISVITLGAT QPREVYTRKN VCWLNWEDTK ALLAFAIPAL IIVVVNITIT IVVITKILRP 1201 SIGDKPCKQE KSSLFQISKS IGVLTPLLGL TWGFGLTTVF PGTNLVFHII FAILNVFQGL 1261 FILLFGCLWD LKVQEALLNK FSLSRWSSQH SKSTSLGSST PVFSMSSPIS RRFNNLFGKT 1321 GTYNVSTPEA TSSSLENSSS ASSLLN

[0154] Protein surface signature domain was predicted according to http colon slash slash pfam dot sanger dot ac dot uk slash search slash sequence, and the protein fragment of the amino acid residues at positions 166-307 was used for constructing immunization antigen and detection antigen, wherein the fragment of the amino acid residues at positions 166-307 comprised two important domains.

B Amplification of the Target Fragment

[0155] The forward primer: CGCGGATCCCTTCAGGAAGATGTTACCCTGAA (SEQ ID NO: 111) and the reverse primer: CGCGAATTCAACATCTA TTTTCTTCTTGCACT(SEQ ID NO: 112) were designed according to the amino acid sequences of the two ends of the above fragment and the insertion of restriction sites.

[0156] The purchased GPR116 CDNA plasmid (Yeli co. ltd., China) was use as template, and the amount of the template was 50 ng. PCR conditions were: 94.degree. C., 2 min; 94.degree. C. 30 s-60.degree. C. 30 s-72.degree. C. 1 min, 30 cycles; 72.degree. C., 10 min; 10.degree. C., 10 min.

[0157] The target fragments around 450 bp were recovered from gel. After the BamHI/EcoRI restriction sites were integrated to the H vector of Example 1, 5 plasmids were obtained. The target fragment was respectively inserted into H vectors and PET32a vectors digested by the same enzymes, and then were respectively used for expressing immunization antigen and detection antigen.

[0158] The constructed H and PET32a expression vectors were respectively transformed to Rosetta competent cells (Novagen, Merck, Germany) The expression and purification methods for immunization antigens and detection antigens can respectively be seen in Example 3 and Example 4. The produced amount of immunization antigen was 1.7 mg, with the purity of 80%; produced amount of detection antigen was 2.3 mg, with the purity of 95%.

C Immunization Method

[0159] The immunization method and dosage for protein GPR116 were as follows.

[0160] 3 Balb/c mice (Shanghai sippr bk laboratory animals co. ltd., Shanghai) which were 8-10 weeks old were selected for the immunization.

[0161] On the first day, 20 .mu.g (the dosage can be 2-200 ug) of the above prepared immunization antigen was completely emulsified with Freund's complete adjuvant (Sigma), and the immunization sites were front leg armpit and inguen, 4 sites all together, wherein about 50 .mu.L was applied for each site.

[0162] On the fourteenth day, 10 .mu.g antigen was taken and completely emulsified with Freund's complete adjuvant (Sigma), and then used to immunize the mice at front leg armpit and inguen.

[0163] On the 21st day, blood was taken from eyepit of the mice, and ELISA method was used to examine the serum titer, wherein the serum titers of the mice were all higher than 1:32000.

[0164] On the 28th day, the mouse with the highest titer was selected, and 50 .mu.g antigen was used for strengthening at abdominal cavity.

D Cell Fusion and Hybridoma Screening

[0165] On the 31st day, the mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation. Spleen cells of the mice were fused with SP20 cells. The cells were suspended in HAT complete medium, and the plated for 4 384 well plates, with 80 .mu.L in each well. The cell plates were cultured at 37.degree. C., 5% CO.sub.2 for 6 days, and then totally changed to HT medium. 8 days after the fusion, 10 .mu.L cell supernatant was taken, and diluted 5 times, which was used for ELISA assay.

[0166] The operation of the primary screening ELISA was the same to that of Example 5, with the difference that the coating antigen was detection antigen which was expressed by PET32a and which was fused with TRX. The detection antigen per se also contained the selected domain sequence of aa 166-307, and the other components thereof were totally different to H vector. Since the detection also contained other parts of the H vector besides the sequence of the domain parts, and these other parts also produced corresponding antibodies. The detection antigen fused with TRX was used to confirm that the obtained cell strain recognized said surface signature domain rather than other parts expressed by the H vector. The concentration for coating the plates was 1 .mu.g/ml, and the solutions for coating the plated was pH9.6 bicarbonate buffer (Na.sub.2CO.sub.3/NaHCO.sub.3).

[0167] 100 clones with highest OD values were selected for sub-cloning and cell strain construction. An antibody library (68 strains) against the surface signature domains of GPR116 protein (the specific domains selected above) was obtained. Cell strains with various applications can be selected from the library. The antibodies secreted by more than 50 cell strains were assayed as having an affinity less than 10 nM, indicating that affinity of the antibodies in the antibody library was in a relatively high level.

E Verification Data

[0168] The basis verification method of Western was the same to that of Example 6, and the lysate selected for the verification was Y79 cell (ATCC, USA) lysate. FIG. 6 showed the Western results of a monoclonal antibody 1A6 produced by one cell strain 1A6 of the above 50 cell strains, and said cell strain was deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jan. 28, 2011, with the deposition No. CCTCC C201108. 50 cell strains can be used to specifically detect endogenous GPR116 protein. More than 50% of the cell strains were successful in the verification applications of co-immuno-precipitation and immuno-fluorescence.

Example 8

Preparation of Antibodies of Mouse Protein-Aof1

A Design and Expression of the Immunization Antigen

[0169] Aof1 protein (a protein containing flavin amine oxidase domain) is a self-protein of mouse. As for self-protein, traditional recombinant protein expression method can hardly be used to prepare antibodies with high affinity. Using the method of the invention, an antibody library with high affinity was successfully prepared.

[0170] The full length amino acids of Aof1 protein is:

TABLE-US-00023 (SEQ ID NO: 113) 1 MAASRGRSKK RSNLELSPDN LPLRSSGRQA KKKAVEIPDE DEDGSSEKKY RKCEKAGCTA 61 AYPVCFASAS ERCAKNGYTS RWYHLSCGEH FCNECFDHYY RSHKDGYDKY SAWKRVWTSN 121 GKTEPSPKAF MADQQLPYWV QCTKPECGKW RQLTKEIQLT PHMARTYRCG MKPNTITKPD 181 TPDHCSFPED LRVLEVSNHW WYPMLIQPPL LKDSVAAPLL SAYYPDCVGM SPSCTSTHRA 241 TVTAATTTTG SASPGEMEPS KAAPSSLVLG MNRYFQPFYQ PNECGKALCV RPDVMELDEL 301 YEFPEYSRDP TMYLALRNLI LALWYTNCKE ALTPQKCIPH IIVRGLVRIR CVQEVERILY 361 FMTRKGLINT GVLTVAAGQH LLPKHYHNKS VLVVGAGPAG LAAARQLHNF GMKVTVLEAK 421 DRIGGRVWDD KSFKGVVVGR GPQIVNGCIN NPVALMCEQL GISMRKLGER CDLIQEGGRI 481 TDPTVDKRMD FHFNALLDVV SEWRKDKTLL QDVPLGEKIE EIYRAFVKES GIQFSELEGQ 541 VLQFHLSNLE YACGSSLHQV SARSWDHNEF FAQFAGDHTL LTPGYSTIIE KLAEGLDIRL 601 KSPVQSIDYT GDEVQVTTTD GMGHSAQKVL VTVPLAILQR GAIQFNPPLS EKKMKAINSL 661 GAGIIEKIAL QFPYRFWDSK VQGADFFGHV PPSASQRGLF AVFYDMDSQQ SVLMSVITGE 721 AVASLRTMDD KQVLQQCMGI LRELFKEQEI PEPTKYFVTR WSTEPWIQMA YSFVKTFGSG 781 EAYDIIAEEI QGTVFFAGEA TNRHFPQTVT GAYLSGVREA SKIAAF

[0171] According to searching in the protein, it was discovered that the protein does not contain trans-membrane domain or signal peptide. Based on the above mentioned principle, the full length of the protein was analyzed, and 5 surface signature peptide sequences were determined.

[0172] The method for constructing the tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens was the same to that of Example 2. 7 short peptides were selected, and the sequences can be seen in Table 14.

TABLE-US-00024 TABLE 14 The information for surface signature peptide Starting site Ending site (based on (based on SEQ ID SEQ ID Specific Numbering Peptide sequences length/aa NO: 113) NO: 13) Score 1 KKYRKCEKAG 10 48 57 90.2 (SEQ ID NO: 114) 2 AASRGRSKKR 10 2 11 89.8 (SEQ ID NO: 115) 3 RSSGRQAKKK 10 24 33 88.6 (SEQ ID NO: 116) 4 VRGLVRIRCV 10 343 352 89.9 (SEQ ID NO: 117) 5 KYSAWKRVWT 10 109 118 90.8 (SEQ ID NO: 118) 6 RILYFMTRKG 10 357 366 90.7 (SEQ ID NO: 119) 7 MARTYRCGMK (SEQ ID NO: 120) 10 163 172 91.1

Specific Score Calculation:

[0173] 1, The protein was cut into segments of 10 aa (gradually cutting, 1-10, 2-11, 3-12 . . . )

[0174] 2, Blast was conducted for all the 10 aa peptide segments against the specie of the protein

[0175] 3, The formula for calculating the specific score of each target peptide was: i) the most homogenous 20 sequences of each target polypeptide were selected; ii) the number of identical amino acids in each of the 20 sequences when compared to the target polypeptide was listed; iii) the average of these numbers of identical amino acids was calculated; iv) the specific score of the target polypeptide was: 100--the average

[0176] 4, The polypeptide fragments with highest specific score were selected, and surface signature peptides were selected based on the specific score in combination with the factors of antigenicity, hydrophilicity, trans-membrane structure, signal peptide etc.

[0177] Finally, it was determined that the sequence of the tandem polypeptide displayed by H carrier of the Aof1 protein was: KKYRKCEKAG-GGGGS-AASRGRS KKR-GGGG S-RS SGRQAKKK-GGGGS-VRGLVRIRCV-GGGGS-KYSAWKRVWT-GGGGS-RIL YFMTRKG-GGGGS-MARTYRCGMK(SEQ ID NO: 121)

[0178] After codon optimization, it was determined that the complete gene sequence to be synthesized was:

TABLE-US-00025 (SEQ ID NO: 122) GACACggatccAAGAAATACCGTAAATGCGAGAAAGCAGGAGGTGGCGGC GGAAGCGCGGCTTCCCGTGGCCGTTCAAAAAAACGTGGCGGTGGAGGGTC CCGGAGCAGCGGCCGTCAGGCGAAAAAGAAGGGTGGTGGGGGATCTGTGC GTGGCCTGGTGCGTATTCGTTGCGTTGGGGGGGGTGGATCAAAATACTCT GCGTGGAAACGTGTGTGGACCGGCGGAGGCGGCAGTCGTATCCTGTATTT CATGACCCGTAAAGGAGGAGGGGGAGGCTCGATGGCGCGTACCTATCGTT GTGGGATGAAAgaattcGTGTC

[0179] Based on the above, the primers used for the complete gene synthesis were determined and can be seen in the following table. The complete gene synthesis method was the same to that of Example 4.

[0180] 5 .mu.l of the synthesized primers 164_01 to 164_14 were taken (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M) and mixed. Such mixed primers were used as template, and the first round of PCR amplification was conducted under the catalysis of PFU enzyme (ShenNengBoCai co. ltd., Shanghai, China). The PCR conditions were as: 94.degree., 2 min; 30 cycles (94.degree. C., 30 s; 60.degree. C., 30 s; 72.degree. C., 1 min); 72.degree. C., 10 min; 10.degree. C., 10 min. 2 .mu.l of the PCR product of the first round was then taken as template, and primers 164_01 and 164_10 (with the concentration of 25 .mu.M) were used for conducting the amplification, with the amplification conditions as set forth above. 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis was performed, and the target fragments (i.e. the nucleotide sequence to be completely synthesized) were recovered.

TABLE-US-00026 TABLE 15 The list of the primers for the complete gene synthesis of Aof1 The number Primer of bases in names Primer sequences (5'-3') each primer 164_01 GACACggatccAAGAAATACCGTAAATGCGAGAAAGCAGGA 41 (SEQ ID NO: 123) 164_02 GCCGCGCTTCCGCCGCCACCTCCTGCTTTCTCGCATTTAC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 124) 164_03 GCGGAAGCGCGGCTTCCCGTGGCCGTTCAAAAAAACGTGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 125) 164_04 CTGCTCCGGGACCCTCCACCGCCACGTTTTTTTGAACGGC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 126) 164_05 AGGGTCCCGGAGCAGCGGCCGTCAGGCGAAAAAGAAGGGT 40 (SEQ ID NO: 127) 164_06 GCCACGCACAGATCCCCCACCACCCTTCTTTTTCGCCTGA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 128) 164_07 GGGATCTGTGCGTGGCCTGGTGCGTATTCGTTGCGTTGGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 129) 164_08 CAGAGTATTTTGATCCACCCCCCCCAACGCAACGAATACG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 130) 164_09 GGGGTGGATCAAAATACTCTGCGTGGAAACGTGTGTGGAC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 131) 164_10 GATACGACTGCCGCCTCCGCCGGTCCACACACGTTTCCAC 40 (SEQ ID NO: 132) 164_11 GAGGCGGCAGTCGTATCCTGTATTTCATGACCCGTAAAGG 40 (SEQ ID NO: 133) 164_12 ATCGAGCCTCCCCCTCCTCCTTTACGGGTCATGAAATACA 40 (SEQ ID NO: 134) 164_13 GAGGGGGAGGCTCGATGGCGCGTACCTATCGTTGTGGGAT 40 (SEQ ID NO: 135) 164_14 GACACgaattcTTTCATCCCACAACGATAGGTACG 35 (SEQ ID NO: 136)

B Expression of the Tandem Polypeptide of Immunization Antigens

[0181] The expression method was the same to that of Example 3. All together 1.5 mg of recombinantly expressed tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens was obtained, with the purity of the protein as 85%.

C Synthesis of the Detection Antigens

[0182] The construction strategy of the detection antigens was the same to that of Example 4, based on 7 immunogen including the Aof1 protein (see table 16), 7 detection antigens were constructed (see table 17). The expression and purification methods were the same to that of Example 4.

[0183] The purified amount of detection antigen 1 was 0.75 mg, with the purity of 85%; the purified amount of detection antigen 2 was 0.9 mg, with the purity of 70%; the purified amount of detection antigen 3 was 1.3 mg, with the purity of 75%; the purified amount of detection antigen 4 was 0.95 mg, with the purity of 95%; the purified amount of detection antigen 5 was 1.9 mg, with the purity of 65%; the purified amount of detection antigen 6 was 1.1 mg, with the purity of 80%; the purified amount of detection antigen 7 was 0.9 mg, with the purity of 85%.

TABLE-US-00027 TABLE 16 Tandem polypeptide sequences of 7 immunization antigens The Protein Name sequence of the tandem polypeptide of immunization antigens Aof1 GKLLGQGAFGggggsPDSPETSKEVggggsGGSVKDQLKAggggsRKYTRQILEGgg ggsVKLGDFGASKggggsMDEQEALNSIggggsLTHHFAQLMY (SEQ ID NO: 137) Histone AQTQGTRRKVggggsSVASAVKLNKggggsRDGIDDESYEggggsPDFKLHISPSggg deacetylase 1 gsGGRKNSSNFKggggsKGVKEEVKLAggggsKPVMSKVMEM (SEQ ID NO: 138) OsSPX1 AADGGEEEAggggsQDRVARAAGREggggsMKFGKSLSSQggggsKDLKKRLKLIg gggsEERQAKRARVggggsGDSSPEEQQEggggsKIPVIEQAAK (SEQ ID NO: 139) Vivax QKMEVQGNLFggggsKKKHANDLQHggggsETYDPEGKFLggggsPKRDDDNAK GggggsEKKHSSETPQggggsEKRNYTNLKKggggsERNEPYNIVD (SEQ ID NO: 140) Knowlesi DGVYSKKKHAggggsRAKKNNVEKIggggsKNFMEEKDKQggggsPKPDDAKAK GggggsDAQIKKQENKggggsKKKITNHSNRggggsEKRNYTNLKK (SEQ ID NO: 141) Chabaudi KTNKTFKIKKggggsNKKKHENDLRggggsETYDPKGEFLggggsPGFLYNEQDKgg ggsEKYKPLIEQVggggsKTPENINAVKggggsEKRNYTNLKK (SEQ ID NO: 142) Ber NKKKHENDLKggggsETYDPKGEFLggggsDTKNQGLKVDggggsGEMGLDFDRL SEQ ID NO: 143)

TABLE-US-00028 TABLE 17 7 detection antigens Detection antigen Sequence Detection KKYRKCEKAGAQTQGTRRKVAADGGEEEAQKMEVQGNLFDGVYSKKKHA antigen 1 KTNKTFKIKKNKKKHENDLK (SEQ ID NO: 144) Detection AASRGRSKKRSVASAVKLNKQDRVARAAGREKKKHANDLQHRAKKNNVEK antigen 2 INKKKHENDLRETYDPKGEFL (SEQ ID NO: 145) Detection RSSGRQAKKKRDGIDDESYEMKFGKSLSSQETYDPEGKFLKNFMEEKDKQET antigen 3 YDPKGEFLDTKNQGLKVD (SEQ ID NO: 146) Detection VRGLVRIRCVPDFKLHISPSKDLKKRLKLIPKRDDDNAKGPKPDDAKAKGPGF antigen 4 LYNEQDKGEMGLDFDR (SEQ ID NO: 147) Detection KYSAWKRVWTGGRKNSSNFKEERQAKRARVEKKHSSETPQDAQIKKQENKE antigen 5 KYKPLIEQVEKYKPLIEQV (SEQ ID NO: 148) Detection RILYFMTRKGKGVKEEVKLAGDSSPEEQQEEKRNYTNLKKKKKITNHSNRKT antigen 6 PENINAVKEKRNYTNLKK (SEQ ID NO: 149) Detection MARTYRCGMKKPVMSKVMEMKIPVIEQAAKERNEPYNIVDEKRNYTNLKKE antigen 7 KRNYTNLICKDRNEPYNIVD (SEQ ID NO150)

C Immunization Method

[0184] The immunization method and dosage for protein Aof1 were as follows.

[0185] On the first day, 10 .mu.g antigen (H carrier protein carrying the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:121) was completely mixed with the oligonucleotide adjuvant (detailed method can be seen in the explanation of the oligonucleotide adjuvant in Example 5), and was then used to immunize the mice at hind leg muscle, and two sites all together, wherein 50-100 .mu.L was applied for each site.

[0186] On the eighth day, 20 .mu.g antigen was taken and mixed with the oligonucleotide adjuvant, and was then used to immunize the mice at tail end and hind leg muscle, wherein 50-100 .mu.L was applied for each site.

[0187] On the twelfth day, 10 .mu.g antigen was completely mixed with the oligonucleotide adjuvant, and was then used to immunize the mice at hind leg muscle.

[0188] On the fourteenth day, blood was taken from eyepit of the mice, and ELISA method was used to examine the serum titer, wherein the serum titers of the mice were all higher than 1:32000.

D Cell Fusion and Epitopes Screening

[0189] On the fifteenth day, lymph-node cells of 2 mice were taken for conducting the fusion. The methods for cell fusion, positive clone screening, and epitopes screening, were the same to that of Example 5.

[0190] The wells that were positive to different detection antigens were just the antibodies against different antigen epitopes, and the screening results can be seen in table 18. Antibodies against all together 6 epitopes were obtained, and the numbers of positive clones were different.

TABLE-US-00029 TABLE 18 The data for the recognition epitopes of the monoclonal antibodies of Aof1 protein Clone Epitopes The sequence of epitopes number A GKLLGQGAFG (SEQ ID NO: 151) 5 B PDSPETSKEV (SEQ ID NO: 152) 8 C GGSVKDQLKA (SEQ ID NO: 153) 10 D RKYTRQILEG (SEQ ID NO: 154) 0 E VKLGDFGASK (SEQ ID NO: 155) 38 F MDEQEALNSI (SEQ ID NO: 156) 15 G LTHHFAQLMY (SEQ ID NO: 157) 6

[0191] 2-5 positive wells of each epitopes were respectively picked to conduct limiting dilution for sub-cloning. After 3 rounds of sub-clonings, 30 strains of stable hybridoma cell strains were obtained, which were directed to 6 epitopes.

E the Data for Antibody Verification

[0192] The basic method of Western verification was the same to that of Example 6, and the cell line used was Hela cervical cancer cell line (ATCC, USA). FIG. 7 showed the Western results of a monoclonal antibody 2F1 produced by one cell strain 2F1 of the above 30 cell strains, and said cell strain was deposited in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) on Jan. 28, 2011, with the deposition No. CCTCC C201109. 5 epitopes, 15 cell strains were successful in Western applications.

Sequence CWU 1

1

164154DNAArtificialmultiple cloning site 1ggatcctatc agatctatcg ggtaccgtat cgcggccgct tccatatgga attc 542639DNAArtificialHBc nucleotide sequence after codon optimization 2ccatgggcag cagccaccat catcaccacc acatgaccat gatcaccgat agcctggagt 60tccatatcga tccgtacaag gaatttggcg cgaccgtgga actgctgagc ttcctgccga 120gcgacttttt tccaagcgtg cgtgacctgc tggatacggc gagcgcactg tatcgtgaag 180cgctggaaag cccggaacat tgcagcccgc atcataccgc gctgcgtcag gcgattctgt 240gctggggcga actgatgacc ctggcgacct gggtgggcgg caatgaagaa ggtggtggcg 300gtagcggcgg tggcggatcc tatcagatct atcgggtacc gtatcgcggc cgcttccata 360tggaattcgg tggcggcggc agcggcggtg gtggcagcga agaagacctg gttgtgagct 420atgtgaacac caatatgggc ctgaagtttc gtcagctgct gtggtttcat attagctgcc 480tgacctttgg ccgcgaaacc gtgattgaat acctggtgag ctttggcgtg tggattcgta 540ccccaccggc gtatcgtccg ccgaatgcgc caattctgag caccctgccg gaaacgaccg 600tttaagagct ccgtcgacaa gcttgcggcc gcactcgag 639342DNAArtificialPrimer 3catgccatgg gcagcagcca ccatcatcac caccacatga cc 42440DNAArtificialPrimer 4ctccaggcta tcggtgatca tggtcatgtg gtggtgatga 40542DNAArtificialPrimer 5tgatcaccga tagcctggag ttccatatcg atccgtacaa gg 42640DNAArtificialPrimer 6ccacggtcgc gccaaattcc ttgtacggat cgatatggaa 40740DNAArtificialPrimer 7tggcgcgacc gtggaactgc tgagcttcct gccgagcgac 40840DNAArtificialprimer 8caggtcacgc acgcttggaa aaaagtcgct cggcaggaag 40940DNAArtificialprimer 9caagcgtgcg tgacctgctg gatacggcga gcgcactgta 401040DNAArtificialprimer 10tccgggcttt ccagcgcttc acgatacagt gcgctcgccg 401140DNAArtificialprimer 11cgctggaaag cccggaacat tgcagcccgc atcataccgc 401240DNAArtificialprimer 12cagcacagaa tcgcctgacg cagcgcggta tgatgcgggc 401340DNAArtificialprimer 13gtcaggcgat tctgtgctgg ggcgaactga tgaccctggc 401440DNAArtificialprimer 14ttcattgccg cccacccagg tcgccagggt catcagttcg 401540DNAArtificialprimer 15ggtgggcggc aatgaagaag gtggtggcgg tagcggcggt 401640DNAArtificialprimer 16acccgataga tctgatagga tccgccaccg ccgctaccgc 401740DNAArtificialprimer 17ggatcctatc agatctatcg ggtaccgtat cgcggccgct 401840DNAArtificialprimer 18ccgccgccac cgaattccat atggaagcgg ccgcgatacg 401940DNAArtificialprimer 19attcggtggc ggcggcagcg gcggtggtgg cagcgaagaa 402040DNAArtificialprimer 20tcacatagct cacaaccagg tcttcttcgc tgccaccacc 402140DNAArtificialprimer 21cctggttgtg agctatgtga acaccaatat gggcctgaag 402240DNAArtificialprimer 22aaccacagca gctgacgaaa cttcaggccc atattggtgt 402340DNAArtificialprimer 23tcgtcagctg ctgtggtttc atattagctg cctgaccttt 402440DNAArtificialprimer 24aatcacggtt tcgcggccaa aggtcaggca gctaatatga 402540DNAArtificialprimer 25gccgcgaaac cgtgattgaa tacctggtga gctttggcgt 402640DNAArtificialprimer 26cgccggtggg gtacgaatcc acacgccaaa gctcaccagg 402740DNAArtificialprimer 27cgtaccccac cggcgtatcg tccgccgaat gcgccaattc 402840DNAArtificialprimer 28gtcgtttccg gcagggtgct cagaattggc gcattcggcg 402940DNAArtificialprimer 29accctgccgg aaacgaccgt ttaagagctc cgtcgacaag 403042DNAArtificialprimer 30ccgctcgagt gcggccgcaa gcttgtcgac ggagctctta aa 4231470PRTHomo sapiens 31Met Ser Gln Ala Tyr Ser Ser Ser Gln Arg Val Ser Ser Tyr Arg Arg 1 5 10 15 Thr Phe Gly Gly Ala Pro Gly Phe Pro Leu Gly Ser Pro Leu Ser Ser 20 25 30 Pro Val Phe Pro Arg Ala Gly Phe Gly Ser Lys Gly Ser Ser Ser Ser 35 40 45 Val Thr Ser Arg Val Tyr Gln Val Ser Arg Thr Ser Gly Gly Ala Gly 50 55 60 Gly Leu Gly Ser Leu Arg Ala Ser Arg Leu Gly Thr Thr Arg Thr Pro 65 70 75 80 Ser Ser Tyr Gly Ala Gly Glu Leu Leu Asp Phe Ser Leu Ala Asp Ala 85 90 95 Val Asn Gln Glu Phe Leu Thr Thr Arg Thr Asn Glu Lys Val Glu Leu 100 105 110 Gln Glu Leu Asn Asp Arg Phe Ala Asn Tyr Ile Glu Lys Val Arg Phe 115 120 125 Leu Glu Gln Gln Asn Ala Ala Leu Ala Ala Glu Val Asn Arg Leu Lys 130 135 140 Gly Arg Glu Pro Thr Arg Val Ala Glu Leu Tyr Glu Glu Glu Leu Arg 145 150 155 160 Glu Leu Arg Arg Gln Val Glu Val Leu Thr Asn Gln Arg Ala Arg Val 165 170 175 Asp Val Glu Arg Asp Asn Leu Leu Asp Asp Leu Gln Arg Leu Lys Ala 180 185 190 Lys Leu Gln Glu Glu Ile Gln Leu Lys Glu Glu Ala Glu Asn Asn Leu 195 200 205 Ala Ala Phe Arg Ala Asp Val Asp Ala Ala Thr Leu Ala Arg Ile Asp 210 215 220 Leu Glu Arg Arg Ile Glu Ser Leu Asn Glu Glu Ile Ala Phe Leu Lys 225 230 235 240 Lys Val His Glu Glu Glu Ile Arg Glu Leu Gln Ala Gln Leu Gln Glu 245 250 255 Gln Gln Val Gln Val Glu Met Asp Met Ser Lys Pro Asp Leu Thr Ala 260 265 270 Ala Leu Arg Asp Ile Arg Ala Gln Tyr Glu Thr Ile Ala Ala Lys Asn 275 280 285 Ile Ser Glu Ala Glu Glu Trp Tyr Lys Ser Lys Val Ser Asp Leu Thr 290 295 300 Gln Ala Ala Asn Lys Asn Asn Asp Ala Leu Arg Gln Ala Lys Gln Glu 305 310 315 320 Met Met Glu Tyr Arg His Gln Ile Gln Ser Tyr Thr Cys Glu Ile Asp 325 330 335 Ala Leu Lys Gly Thr Asn Asp Ser Leu Met Arg Gln Met Arg Glu Leu 340 345 350 Glu Asp Arg Phe Ala Ser Glu Ala Ser Gly Tyr Gln Asp Asn Ile Ala 355 360 365 Arg Leu Glu Glu Glu Ile Arg His Leu Lys Asp Glu Met Ala Arg His 370 375 380 Leu Arg Glu Tyr Gln Asp Leu Leu Asn Val Lys Met Ala Leu Asp Val 385 390 395 400 Glu Ile Ala Thr Tyr Arg Lys Leu Leu Glu Gly Glu Glu Ser Arg Ile 405 410 415 Asn Leu Pro Ile Gln Thr Tyr Ser Ala Leu Asn Phe Arg Glu Thr Ser 420 425 430 Pro Glu Gln Arg Gly Ser Glu Val His Thr Lys Lys Thr Val Met Ile 435 440 445 Lys Thr Ile Glu Thr Arg Asp Gly Glu Val Val Ser Glu Ala Thr Gln 450 455 460 Gln Gln His Glu Val Leu 465 470 3279PRTArtificialtandem antigen 32Arg Glu Thr Ser Pro Glu Gln Arg Gly Ser Glu Val Gly Gly Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Lys Val Ser Asp Leu Thr Gln Ala Ala Asn Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly 20 25 30 Ser Arg Leu Lys Gly Arg Glu Pro Thr Arg Val Ala Glu Gly Gly Gly 35 40 45 Gly Ser Val Glu Val Leu Thr Asn Gln Arg Ala Arg Val Asp Gly Gly 50 55 60 Gly Gly Ser Glu Glu Ser Arg Ile Asn Leu Pro Ile Gln Thr Tyr 65 70 75 3312PRTArtificialantigen 33Arg Glu Thr Ser Pro Glu Gln Arg Gly Ser Glu Val 1 5 10 3411PRTArtificialantigen 34Lys Val Ser Asp Leu Thr Gln Ala Ala Asn Lys 1 5 10 3512PRTArtificialantigen 35Arg Leu Lys Gly Arg Glu Pro Thr Arg Val Ala Glu 1 5 10 3612PRTArtificialantigen 36Val Glu Val Leu Thr Asn Gln Arg Ala Arg Val Asp 1 5 10 3712PRTArtificialantigen 37Glu Glu Ser Arg Ile Asn Leu Pro Ile Gln Thr Tyr 1 5 10 38261DNAArtificialnucleic acid encoding tandem antigen 38gacacggatc ccgtgaaacc agcccggaac agcgtggcag cgaagtgggt ggtggaggtt 60ctaaagtgag cgatctgacc caggcggcga ataaaggggg aggcggcagc cgtctgaaag 120gccgtgaacc gacccgtgtg gcggaaggtg ggggtggaag cgtggaagtg ctgaccaatc 180agcgtgcgcg tgtggatggc ggtggcggct cggaagaaag ccgtattaat ctgccgattc 240agacctatgg aatttcgtgt c 2613937DNAArtificialprimer 39gacacggatc ccgtgaaacc agcccggaac agcgtgg 374040DNAArtificialprimer 40agaacctcca ccacccactt cgctgccacg ctgttccggg 404140DNAArtificialprimer 41tgggtggtgg aggttctaaa gtgagcgatc tgacccaggc 404240DNAArtificialprimer 42ctgccgcctc cccctttatt cgccgcctgg gtcagatcgc 404340DNAArtificialprimer 43gggggaggcg gcagccgtct gaaaggccgt gaaccgaccc 404440DNAArtificialprimer 44cttccacccc caccttccgc cacacgggtc ggttcacggc 404540DNAArtificialprimer 45gaaggtgggg gtggaagcgt ggaagtgctg accaatcagc 404640DNAArtificialprimer 46caccgccatc cacacgcgca cgctgattgg tcagcacttc 404740DNAArtificialprimer 47cgtgtggatg gcggtggcgg ctcggaagaa agccgtatta 404851DNAArtificialprimer 48gacacgaatt cataggtctg aatcggcaga ttaatacggc tttcttccga g 514979PRTArtificialantigen 49Arg Glu Thr Ser Pro Glu Gln Arg Gly Ser Glu Val Gly Gly Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Lys Val Ser Asp Leu Thr Gln Ala Ala Asn Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly 20 25 30 Ser Arg Leu Lys Gly Arg Glu Pro Thr Arg Val Ala Glu Gly Gly Gly 35 40 45 Gly Ser Val Glu Val Leu Thr Asn Gln Arg Ala Arg Val Asp Gly Gly 50 55 60 Gly Gly Ser Glu Glu Ser Arg Ile Asn Leu Pro Ile Gln Thr Tyr 65 70 75 5079PRTArtificialantigen 50Leu Arg Pro Ser Thr Ser Arg Ser Leu Tyr Ala Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Ile Asn Glu Thr Ser Gln His His Asp Asp Leu Glu Gly Gly Gly 20 25 30 Gly Ser Ala Ile Asn Thr Glu Phe Lys Asn Thr Arg Thr Gly Gly Gly 35 40 45 Gly Ser Glu Gln Leu Lys Gly Gln Gly Lys Ser Arg Leu Gly Gly Gly 50 55 60 Gly Gly Ser Gln Arg Glu Glu Ala Glu Asn Thr Leu Gln Ser Phe 65 70 75 5178PRTArtificialantigen 51Lys Lys Lys Trp Asn Leu Gly Ser Asn Ala Lys Asp Gly Gly Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Asp Gly Val Arg Gln Ser Arg Ala Ser Asp Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly 20 25 30 Ser Cys Lys Gly Ser Gln Asn Lys Ser Lys Pro Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly 35 40 45 Ser Val Lys Val Tyr Asp Tyr Gln Glu Asp Gly Ser Val Gly Gly Gly 50 55 60 Gly Ser Glu Ala Lys Asn Ile Thr Trp Phe Lys Asp Gly Lys 65 70 75 5278PRTArtificialantigen 52Asp Lys Asn Ile Gly Gly Asp Glu Asp Asp Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser 1 5 10 15 Glu Glu Met Gly Gly Ile Thr Gln Thr Pro Tyr Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly 20 25 30 Ser Cys Tyr Pro Arg Gly Ser Lys Pro Glu Asp Ala Gly Gly Gly Gly 35 40 45 Ser Asp His Leu Ser Leu Lys Glu Phe Ser Glu Leu Glu Gly Gly Gly 50 55 60 Gly Ser Gly Gln Arg Asp Leu Tyr Ser Gly Leu Asn Gln Arg 65 70 75 5379PRTArtificialantigen 53Val Gln Glu Gly Asn Glu Ser Tyr Gln Gln Ser Cys Gly Gly Gly Gly 1 5 10 15 Ser Glu Asp Ala His Phe Gln Cys Pro His Asn Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly 20 25 30 Gly Ser Arg Lys Arg Trp Gln Asn Glu Lys Leu Gly Leu Asp Gly Gly 35 40 45 Gly Gly Ser Glu Asp Ile Ser Arg Gly Leu Gln Gly Thr Tyr Gly Gly 50 55 60 Gly Gly Ser Gly Pro Gly Glu Asp Pro Asn Gly Thr Leu Ile Ile 65 70 75 5459PRTArtificialantigen 54Arg Glu Thr Ser Pro Glu Gln Arg Gly Ser Glu Val Leu Arg Pro Ser 1 5 10 15 Thr Ser Arg Ser Leu Tyr Ala Ser Lys Lys Lys Trp Asn Leu Gly Ser 20 25 30 Asn Ala Lys Asp Asp Lys Asn Ile Gly Gly Asp Glu Asp Asp Lys Val 35 40 45 Gln Glu Gly Asn Glu Ser Tyr Gln Gln Ser Cys 50 55 5559PRTArtificialantigen 55Lys Val Ser Asp Leu Thr Gln Ala Ala Asn Lys Asn Ile Asn Glu Thr 1 5 10 15 Ser Gln His His Asp Asp Leu Glu Asp Gly Val Arg Gln Ser Arg Ala 20 25 30 Ser Asp Lys Glu Glu Met Gly Gly Ile Thr Gln Thr Pro Tyr Lys Glu 35 40 45 Asp Ala His Phe Gln Cys Pro His Asn Ser Ser 50 55 5657PRTArtificialantigen 56Arg Leu Lys Gly Arg Glu Pro Thr Arg Val Ala Glu Ala Ile Asn Thr 1 5 10 15 Glu Phe Lys Asn Thr Arg Thr Cys Lys Gly Ser Gln Asn Lys Ser Lys 20 25 30 Pro Leu Cys Tyr Pro Arg Gly Ser Lys Pro Glu Asp Ala Arg Lys Arg 35 40 45 Trp Gln Asn Glu Lys Leu Gly Leu Asp 50 55 5759PRTArtificialantigen 57Val Glu Val Leu Thr Asn Gln Arg Ala Arg Val Asp Glu Gln Leu Lys 1 5 10 15 Gly Gln Gly Lys Ser Arg Leu Gly Val Lys Val Tyr Asp Tyr Gln Glu 20 25 30 Asp Gly Ser Val Asp His Leu Ser Leu Lys Glu Phe Ser Glu Leu Glu 35 40 45 Glu Asp Ile Ser Arg Gly Leu Gln Gly Thr Tyr 50 55 5860PRTArtificialantigen 58Glu Glu Ser Arg Ile Asn Leu Pro Ile Gln Thr Tyr Gln Arg Glu Glu 1 5 10 15 Ala Glu Asn Thr Leu Gln Ser Phe Glu Ala Lys Asn Ile Thr Trp Phe 20 25 30 Lys Asp Gly Lys Gly Gln Arg Asp Leu Tyr Ser Gly Leu Asn Gln Arg 35 40 45 Gly Pro Gly Glu Asp Pro Asn Gly Thr Leu Ile Ile 50 55 60 59177DNAArtificialantigen encoding sequence 59cgtgaaacca gcccggaaca gcgtggcagc gaagtgctgc gtccgagcac cagccgtagc 60ctgtatgcga gcaagaaaaa atggaatctg ggcagcaatg cgaaagatga caaaaacatt 120ggcggcgacg aggatgataa ggtgcaggaa ggcaacgaaa gctatcagca aagctgc 17760177DNAArtificialantigen encoding sequence 60aaagtgtcag acctgaccca ggcggcgaat aagaacatta acgaaaccag ccagcatcac 60gatgatctgg aagatggcgt gcgtcagagc cgtgcgagcg ataaagaaga aatgggcggc 120attacccaga ccccgtataa agaggatgca cattttcagt gcccgcataa tagcagc 17761171DNAArtificialantigen encodin sequence 61cgtctgaaag gccgtgaacc gacccgtgtg gcggaagcga ttaacaccga atttaagaat 60acccgtacct gcaaaggcag ccagaataaa tcgaaaccgc tgtgctatcc gcgtggcagc 120aaaccggaag atgcgcgtaa acggtggcag aatgaaaaac tgggcctgga t 17162177DNAArtificialantigen encoding sequence 62gtggaagtgc tgaccaatca gcgtgcgcgt gtggatgaac agctgaaagg ccagggcaaa 60agccgtctgg gtgtgaaagt gtatgattat caggaagatg gcagcgtgga tcatctgagc 120ctgaaagaat ttagcgaact ggaagaagac atcagccgtg ggctgcaggg cacctat 17763180DNAArtificialantigen encoding sequence 63gaagaaagtc gtattaatct gccgattcag acctatcagc gtgaggaagc ggaaaatacc 60ctgcagtcgt ttgaagcgaa aaacattacc tggttcaaag atggcaaagg ccagcgggat 120ctgtatagcg gcctgaacca acgtggtccg ggcgaagatc cgaatggcac cctgattatt 1806439DNAArtificialprimer 64gacacggatc ccgtgaaacc agcccggaac agcgtggca 396540DNAArtificialprimer 65ctggtgctcg gacgcagcac ttcgctgcca cgctgttccg 406640DNAArtificialprimer 66gcgtccgagc accagccgta gcctgtatgc gagcaagaaa 406740DNAArtificialprimer 67attgctgccc agattccatt ttttcttgct cgcatacagg 406840DNAArtificialprimer 68tggaatctgg gcagcaatgc gaaagatgac aaaaacattg 406940DNAArtificialprimer 69tatcatcctc gtcgccgcca atgtttttgt catctttcgc 407040DNAArtificialprimer 70cggcgacgag gatgataagg tgcaggaagg caacgaaagc 407144DNAArtificialprimer 71gacacgaatt cgcagctttg ctgatagctt tcgttgcctt cctg 447243DNAArtificialprimer 72gacacggatc caaagtgtca gacctgaccc aggcggcgaa taa

437340DNAArtificialprimer 73tgctggctgg tttcgttaat gttcttattc gccgcctggg 407440DNAArtificialprimer 74aacgaaacca gccagcatca cgatgatctg gaagatggcg 407540DNAArtificialprimer 75cgctcgcacg gctctgacgc acgccatctt ccagatcatc 407640DNAArtificialprimer 76gagccgtgcg agcgataaag aagaaatggg cggcattacc 407740DNAArtificialprimer 77catcctcttt atacggggtc tgggtaatgc cgcccatttc 407840DNAArtificialprimer 78agaccccgta taaagaggat gcacattttc agtgcccgca 407938DNAArtificialprimer 79gacacgaatt cgctgctatt atgcgggcac tgaaaatg 388034DNAArtificialprimer 80gacacggatc ccgtctgaaa ggccgtgaac cgac 348140DNAArtificialprimer 81tgttaatcgc ttccgccaca cgggtcggtt cacggccttt 408240DNAArtificialprimer 82tggcggaagc gattaacacc gaatttaaga atacccgtac 408340DNAArtificialprimer 83ttctggctgc ctttgcaggt acgggtattc ttaaattcgg 408440DNAArtificialprimer 84tgcaaaggca gccagaataa atcgaaaccg ctgtgctatc 408540DNAArtificialprimer 85tcttccggtt tgctgccacg cggatagcac agcggtttcg 408640DNAArtificialprimer 86ggcagcaaac cggaagatgc gcgtaaacgg tggcagaatg 408747DNAArtificialprimer 87gacacgaatt catccaggcc cagtttttca ttctgccacc gtttacg 478842DNAArtificialprimer 88gacacggatc cgtggaagtg ctgaccaatc agcgtgcgcg tg 428940DNAArtificialprimer 89gccctggcct ttcagctgtt catccacacg cgcacgctga 409040DNAArtificialprimer 90gctgaaaggc cagggcaaaa gccgtctggg tgtgaaagtg 409140DNAArtificialprimer 91tgccatcttc ctgataatca tacactttca cacccagacg 409240DNAArtificialprimer 92atgattatca ggaagatggc agcgtggatc atctgagcct 409340DNAArtificialprimer 93ttccagttcg ctaaattctt tcaggctcag atgatccacg 409440DNAArtificialprimer 94gaaagaattt agcgaactgg aagaagacat cagccgtggg 409543DNAArtificialprimer 95gacacgaatt cataggtgcc ctgcagccca cggctgatgt ctt 439644DNAArtificialprimer 96gacacggatc cgaagaaagt cgtattaatc tgccgattca gacc 449740DNAArtificialprimer 97ccgcttcctc acgctgatag gtctgaatcg gcagattaat 409840DNAArtificialprimer 98cagcgtgagg aagcggaaaa taccctgcag tcgtttgaag 409940DNAArtificialprimer 99ttgaaccagg taatgttttt cgcttcaaac gactgcaggg 4010040DNAArtificialprimer 100cgaaaaacat tacctggttc aaagatggca aaggccagcg 4010140DNAArtificialprimer 101ttggttcagg ccgctataca gatcccgctg gcctttgcca 4010240DNAArtificialprimer 102atagcggcct gaaccaacgt ggtccgggcg aagatccgaa 4010343DNAArtificialprimer 103gacacgaatt caataatcag ggtgccattc ggatcttcgc ccg 4310420DNAArtificialDNA adjuvant 104tccatgacgt tcctgacgtt 2010512PRTArtificialepitope 105Arg Glu Thr Ser Pro Glu Gln Arg Gly Ser Glu Val 1 5 10 10610PRTArtificialepitope 106Lys Val Ser Asp Leu Thr Gln Ala Ala Asn 1 5 10 10712PRTArtificialepitope 107Arg Leu Lys Gly Arg Glu Pro Thr Arg Val Ala Glu 1 5 10 10812PRTArtificialepitope 108Val Glu Val Leu Thr Asn Gln Arg Ala Arg Val Asp 1 5 10 10912PRTArtificialepitope 109Glu Glu Ser Arg Ile Asn Leu Pro Ile Gln Thr Tyr 1 5 10 1101346PRTHomo sapiens 110Met Lys Ser Pro Arg Arg Thr Thr Leu Cys Leu Met Phe Ile Val Ile 1 5 10 15 Tyr Ser Ser Lys Ala Ala Leu Asn Trp Asn Tyr Glu Ser Thr Ile His 20 25 30 Pro Leu Ser Leu His Glu His Glu Pro Ala Gly Glu Glu Ala Leu Arg 35 40 45 Gln Lys Arg Ala Val Ala Thr Lys Ser Pro Thr Ala Glu Glu Tyr Thr 50 55 60 Val Asn Ile Glu Ile Ser Phe Glu Asn Ala Ser Phe Leu Asp Pro Ile 65 70 75 80 Lys Ala Tyr Leu Asn Ser Leu Ser Phe Pro Ile His Gly Asn Asn Thr 85 90 95 Asp Gln Ile Thr Asp Ile Leu Ser Ile Asn Val Thr Thr Val Cys Arg 100 105 110 Pro Ala Gly Asn Glu Ile Trp Cys Ser Cys Glu Thr Gly Tyr Gly Trp 115 120 125 Pro Arg Glu Arg Cys Leu His Asn Leu Ile Cys Gln Glu Arg Asp Val 130 135 140 Phe Leu Pro Gly His His Cys Ser Cys Leu Lys Glu Leu Pro Pro Asn 145 150 155 160 Gly Pro Phe Cys Leu Leu Gln Glu Asp Val Thr Leu Asn Met Arg Val 165 170 175 Arg Leu Asn Val Gly Phe Gln Glu Asp Leu Met Asn Thr Ser Ser Ala 180 185 190 Leu Tyr Arg Ser Tyr Lys Thr Asp Leu Glu Thr Ala Phe Arg Lys Gly 195 200 205 Tyr Gly Ile Leu Pro Gly Phe Lys Gly Val Thr Val Thr Gly Phe Lys 210 215 220 Ser Gly Ser Val Val Val Thr Tyr Glu Val Lys Thr Thr Pro Pro Ser 225 230 235 240 Leu Glu Leu Ile His Lys Ala Asn Glu Gln Val Val Gln Ser Leu Asn 245 250 255 Gln Thr Tyr Lys Met Asp Tyr Asn Ser Phe Gln Ala Val Thr Ile Asn 260 265 270 Glu Ser Asn Phe Phe Val Thr Pro Glu Ile Ile Phe Glu Gly Asp Thr 275 280 285 Val Ser Leu Val Cys Glu Lys Glu Val Leu Ser Ser Asn Val Ser Trp 290 295 300 Arg Tyr Glu Glu Gln Gln Leu Glu Ile Gln Asn Ser Ser Arg Phe Ser 305 310 315 320 Ile Tyr Thr Ala Leu Phe Asn Asn Met Thr Ser Val Ser Lys Leu Thr 325 330 335 Ile His Asn Ile Thr Pro Gly Asp Ala Gly Glu Tyr Val Cys Lys Leu 340 345 350 Ile Leu Asp Ile Phe Glu Tyr Glu Cys Lys Lys Lys Ile Asp Val Met 355 360 365 Pro Ile Gln Ile Leu Ala Asn Glu Glu Met Lys Val Met Cys Asp Asn 370 375 380 Asn Pro Val Ser Leu Asn Cys Cys Ser Gln Gly Asn Val Asn Trp Ser 385 390 395 400 Lys Val Glu Trp Lys Gln Glu Gly Lys Ile Asn Ile Pro Gly Thr Pro 405 410 415 Glu Thr Asp Ile Asp Ser Ser Cys Ser Arg Tyr Thr Leu Lys Ala Asp 420 425 430 Gly Thr Gln Cys Pro Ser Gly Ser Ser Gly Thr Thr Val Ile Tyr Thr 435 440 445 Cys Glu Phe Ile Ser Ala Tyr Gly Ala Arg Gly Ser Ala Asn Ile Lys 450 455 460 Val Thr Phe Ile Ser Val Ala Asn Leu Thr Ile Thr Pro Asp Pro Ile 465 470 475 480 Ser Val Ser Glu Gly Gln Asn Phe Ser Ile Lys Cys Ile Ser Asp Val 485 490 495 Ser Asn Tyr Asp Glu Val Tyr Trp Asn Thr Ser Ala Gly Ile Lys Ile 500 505 510 Tyr Gln Arg Phe Tyr Thr Thr Arg Arg Tyr Leu Asp Gly Ala Glu Ser 515 520 525 Val Leu Thr Val Lys Thr Ser Thr Arg Glu Trp Asn Gly Thr Tyr His 530 535 540 Cys Ile Phe Arg Tyr Lys Asn Ser Tyr Ser Ile Ala Thr Lys Asp Val 545 550 555 560 Ile Val His Pro Leu Pro Leu Lys Leu Asn Ile Met Val Asp Pro Leu 565 570 575 Glu Ala Thr Val Ser Cys Ser Gly Ser His His Ile Lys Cys Cys Ile 580 585 590 Glu Glu Asp Gly Asp Tyr Lys Val Thr Phe His Thr Gly Ser Ser Ser 595 600 605 Leu Pro Ala Ala Lys Glu Val Asn Lys Lys Gln Val Cys Tyr Lys His 610 615 620 Asn Phe Asn Ala Ser Ser Val Ser Trp Cys Ser Lys Thr Val Asp Val 625 630 635 640 Cys Cys His Phe Thr Asn Ala Ala Asn Asn Ser Val Trp Ser Pro Ser 645 650 655 Met Lys Leu Asn Leu Val Pro Gly Glu Asn Ile Thr Cys Gln Asp Pro 660 665 670 Val Ile Gly Val Gly Glu Pro Gly Lys Val Ile Gln Lys Leu Cys Arg 675 680 685 Phe Ser Asn Val Pro Ser Ser Pro Glu Ser Pro Ile Gly Gly Thr Ile 690 695 700 Thr Tyr Lys Cys Val Gly Ser Gln Trp Glu Glu Lys Arg Asn Asp Cys 705 710 715 720 Ile Ser Ala Pro Ile Asn Ser Leu Leu Gln Met Ala Lys Ala Leu Ile 725 730 735 Lys Ser Pro Ser Gln Asp Glu Met Leu Pro Thr Tyr Leu Lys Asp Leu 740 745 750 Ser Ile Ser Ile Asp Lys Ala Glu His Glu Ile Ser Ser Ser Pro Gly 755 760 765 Ser Leu Gly Ala Ile Ile Asn Ile Leu Asp Leu Leu Ser Thr Val Pro 770 775 780 Thr Gln Val Asn Ser Glu Met Met Thr His Val Leu Ser Thr Val Asn 785 790 795 800 Val Ile Leu Gly Lys Pro Val Leu Asn Thr Trp Lys Val Leu Gln Gln 805 810 815 Gln Trp Thr Asn Gln Ser Ser Gln Leu Leu His Ser Val Glu Arg Phe 820 825 830 Ser Gln Ala Leu Gln Ser Gly Asp Ser Pro Pro Leu Ser Phe Ser Gln 835 840 845 Thr Asn Val Gln Met Ser Ser Met Val Ile Lys Ser Ser His Pro Glu 850 855 860 Thr Tyr Gln Gln Arg Phe Val Phe Pro Tyr Phe Asp Leu Trp Gly Asn 865 870 875 880 Val Val Ile Asp Lys Ser Tyr Leu Glu Asn Leu Gln Ser Asp Ser Ser 885 890 895 Ile Val Thr Met Ala Phe Pro Thr Leu Gln Ala Ile Leu Ala Gln Asp 900 905 910 Ile Gln Glu Asn Asn Phe Ala Glu Ser Leu Val Met Thr Thr Thr Val 915 920 925 Ser His Asn Thr Thr Met Pro Phe Arg Ile Ser Met Thr Phe Lys Asn 930 935 940 Asn Ser Pro Ser Gly Gly Glu Thr Lys Cys Val Phe Trp Asn Phe Arg 945 950 955 960 Leu Ala Asn Asn Thr Gly Gly Trp Asp Ser Ser Gly Cys Tyr Val Glu 965 970 975 Glu Gly Asp Gly Asp Asn Val Thr Cys Ile Cys Asp His Leu Thr Ser 980 985 990 Phe Ser Ile Leu Met Ser Pro Asp Ser Pro Asp Pro Ser Ser Leu Leu 995 1000 1005 Gly Ile Leu Leu Asp Ile Ile Ser Tyr Val Gly Val Gly Phe Ser 1010 1015 1020 Ile Leu Ser Leu Ala Ala Cys Leu Val Val Glu Ala Val Val Trp 1025 1030 1035 Lys Ser Val Thr Lys Asn Arg Thr Ser Tyr Met Arg His Thr Cys 1040 1045 1050 Ile Val Asn Ile Ala Ala Ser Leu Leu Val Ala Asn Thr Trp Phe 1055 1060 1065 Ile Val Val Ala Ala Ile Gln Asp Asn Arg Tyr Ile Leu Cys Lys 1070 1075 1080 Thr Ala Cys Val Ala Ala Thr Phe Phe Ile His Phe Phe Tyr Leu 1085 1090 1095 Ser Val Phe Phe Trp Met Leu Thr Leu Gly Leu Met Leu Phe Tyr 1100 1105 1110 Arg Leu Val Phe Ile Leu His Glu Thr Ser Arg Ser Thr Gln Lys 1115 1120 1125 Ala Ile Ala Phe Cys Leu Gly Tyr Gly Cys Pro Leu Ala Ile Ser 1130 1135 1140 Val Ile Thr Leu Gly Ala Thr Gln Pro Arg Glu Val Tyr Thr Arg 1145 1150 1155 Lys Asn Val Cys Trp Leu Asn Trp Glu Asp Thr Lys Ala Leu Leu 1160 1165 1170 Ala Phe Ala Ile Pro Ala Leu Ile Ile Val Val Val Asn Ile Thr 1175 1180 1185 Ile Thr Ile Val Val Ile Thr Lys Ile Leu Arg Pro Ser Ile Gly 1190 1195 1200 Asp Lys Pro Cys Lys Gln Glu Lys Ser Ser Leu Phe Gln Ile Ser 1205 1210 1215 Lys Ser Ile Gly Val Leu Thr Pro Leu Leu Gly Leu Thr Trp Gly 1220 1225 1230 Phe Gly Leu Thr Thr Val Phe Pro Gly Thr Asn Leu Val Phe His 1235 1240 1245 Ile Ile Phe Ala Ile Leu Asn Val Phe Gln Gly Leu Phe Ile Leu 1250 1255 1260 Leu Phe Gly Cys Leu Trp Asp Leu Lys Val Gln Glu Ala Leu Leu 1265 1270 1275 Asn Lys Phe Ser Leu Ser Arg Trp Ser Ser Gln His Ser Lys Ser 1280 1285 1290 Thr Ser Leu Gly Ser Ser Thr Pro Val Phe Ser Met Ser Ser Pro 1295 1300 1305 Ile Ser Arg Arg Phe Asn Asn Leu Phe Gly Lys Thr Gly Thr Tyr 1310 1315 1320 Asn Val Ser Thr Pro Glu Ala Thr Ser Ser Ser Leu Glu Asn Ser 1325 1330 1335 Ser Ser Ala Ser Ser Leu Leu Asn 1340 1345 11132DNAArtificialprimer 111cgcggatccc ttcaggaaga tgttaccctg aa 3211232DNAArtificialprimer 112cgcgaattca acatctattt tcttcttgca ct 32113826PRTMus musculus 113Met Ala Ala Ser Arg Gly Arg Ser Lys Lys Arg Ser Asn Leu Glu Leu 1 5 10 15 Ser Pro Asp Asn Leu Pro Leu Arg Ser Ser Gly Arg Gln Ala Lys Lys 20 25 30 Lys Ala Val Glu Ile Pro Asp Glu Asp Glu Asp Gly Ser Ser Glu Lys 35 40 45 Lys Tyr Arg Lys Cys Glu Lys Ala Gly Cys Thr Ala Ala Tyr Pro Val 50 55 60 Cys Phe Ala Ser Ala Ser Glu Arg Cys Ala Lys Asn Gly Tyr Thr Ser 65 70 75 80 Arg Trp Tyr His Leu Ser Cys Gly Glu His Phe Cys Asn Glu Cys Phe 85 90 95 Asp His Tyr Tyr Arg Ser His Lys Asp Gly Tyr Asp Lys Tyr Ser Ala 100 105 110 Trp Lys Arg Val Trp Thr Ser Asn Gly Lys Thr Glu Pro Ser Pro Lys 115 120 125 Ala Phe Met Ala Asp Gln Gln Leu Pro Tyr Trp Val Gln Cys Thr Lys 130 135 140 Pro Glu Cys Gly Lys Trp Arg Gln Leu Thr Lys Glu Ile Gln Leu Thr 145 150 155 160 Pro His Met Ala Arg Thr Tyr Arg Cys Gly Met Lys Pro Asn Thr Ile 165 170 175 Thr Lys Pro Asp Thr Pro Asp His Cys Ser Phe Pro Glu Asp Leu Arg 180 185 190 Val Leu Glu Val Ser Asn His Trp Trp Tyr Pro Met Leu Ile Gln Pro 195 200 205 Pro Leu Leu Lys Asp Ser Val Ala Ala Pro Leu Leu Ser Ala Tyr Tyr 210 215 220 Pro Asp Cys Val Gly Met Ser Pro Ser Cys Thr Ser Thr His Arg Ala 225 230 235 240 Thr Val Thr Ala Ala Thr Thr Thr Thr Gly Ser Ala Ser Pro Gly Glu 245 250 255 Met Glu Pro Ser Lys Ala Ala Pro Ser Ser Leu Val Leu Gly Met Asn 260 265 270 Arg Tyr Phe Gln Pro Phe Tyr Gln Pro Asn Glu Cys Gly Lys Ala Leu 275 280 285 Cys Val Arg Pro Asp Val Met Glu Leu Asp Glu Leu Tyr Glu Phe Pro 290 295 300 Glu Tyr Ser Arg Asp Pro Thr Met Tyr Leu Ala Leu Arg Asn Leu Ile 305 310 315 320 Leu Ala Leu Trp Tyr Thr Asn Cys Lys Glu Ala Leu Thr Pro Gln Lys 325 330 335 Cys Ile Pro His Ile Ile Val Arg Gly Leu Val Arg Ile Arg Cys Val 340 345 350 Gln Glu Val Glu Arg Ile Leu Tyr Phe Met Thr Arg Lys Gly Leu Ile 355 360 365 Asn Thr Gly Val Leu Thr Val Ala Ala Gly Gln His Leu Leu Pro Lys 370 375 380 His Tyr His Asn Lys Ser Val Leu Val Val Gly Ala Gly Pro Ala Gly 385 390 395 400 Leu Ala Ala Ala Arg Gln Leu His Asn Phe Gly Met Lys Val Thr Val 405 410 415 Leu Glu Ala Lys Asp Arg Ile Gly Gly Arg Val Trp Asp Asp Lys Ser 420

425 430 Phe Lys Gly Val Val Val Gly Arg Gly Pro Gln Ile Val Asn Gly Cys 435 440 445 Ile Asn Asn Pro Val Ala Leu Met Cys Glu Gln Leu Gly Ile Ser Met 450 455 460 Arg Lys Leu Gly Glu Arg Cys Asp Leu Ile Gln Glu Gly Gly Arg Ile 465 470 475 480 Thr Asp Pro Thr Val Asp Lys Arg Met Asp Phe His Phe Asn Ala Leu 485 490 495 Leu Asp Val Val Ser Glu Trp Arg Lys Asp Lys Thr Leu Leu Gln Asp 500 505 510 Val Pro Leu Gly Glu Lys Ile Glu Glu Ile Tyr Arg Ala Phe Val Lys 515 520 525 Glu Ser Gly Ile Gln Phe Ser Glu Leu Glu Gly Gln Val Leu Gln Phe 530 535 540 His Leu Ser Asn Leu Glu Tyr Ala Cys Gly Ser Ser Leu His Gln Val 545 550 555 560 Ser Ala Arg Ser Trp Asp His Asn Glu Phe Phe Ala Gln Phe Ala Gly 565 570 575 Asp His Thr Leu Leu Thr Pro Gly Tyr Ser Thr Ile Ile Glu Lys Leu 580 585 590 Ala Glu Gly Leu Asp Ile Arg Leu Lys Ser Pro Val Gln Ser Ile Asp 595 600 605 Tyr Thr Gly Asp Glu Val Gln Val Thr Thr Thr Asp Gly Met Gly His 610 615 620 Ser Ala Gln Lys Val Leu Val Thr Val Pro Leu Ala Ile Leu Gln Arg 625 630 635 640 Gly Ala Ile Gln Phe Asn Pro Pro Leu Ser Glu Lys Lys Met Lys Ala 645 650 655 Ile Asn Ser Leu Gly Ala Gly Ile Ile Glu Lys Ile Ala Leu Gln Phe 660 665 670 Pro Tyr Arg Phe Trp Asp Ser Lys Val Gln Gly Ala Asp Phe Phe Gly 675 680 685 His Val Pro Pro Ser Ala Ser Gln Arg Gly Leu Phe Ala Val Phe Tyr 690 695 700 Asp Met Asp Ser Gln Gln Ser Val Leu Met Ser Val Ile Thr Gly Glu 705 710 715 720 Ala Val Ala Ser Leu Arg Thr Met Asp Asp Lys Gln Val Leu Gln Gln 725 730 735 Cys Met Gly Ile Leu Arg Glu Leu Phe Lys Glu Gln Glu Ile Pro Glu 740 745 750 Pro Thr Lys Tyr Phe Val Thr Arg Trp Ser Thr Glu Pro Trp Ile Gln 755 760 765 Met Ala Tyr Ser Phe Val Lys Thr Phe Gly Ser Gly Glu Ala Tyr Asp 770 775 780 Ile Ile Ala Glu Glu Ile Gln Gly Thr Val Phe Phe Ala Gly Glu Ala 785 790 795 800 Thr Asn Arg His Phe Pro Gln Thr Val Thr Gly Ala Tyr Leu Ser Gly 805 810 815 Val Arg Glu Ala Ser Lys Ile Ala Ala Phe 820 825 11410PRTArtificialsignature peptide 114Lys Lys Tyr Arg Lys Cys Glu Lys Ala Gly 1 5 10 11510PRTArtificialsignature peptide 115Ala Ala Ser Arg Gly Arg Ser Lys Lys Arg 1 5 10 11610PRTArtificialsignature peptide 116Arg Ser Ser Gly Arg Gln Ala Lys Lys Lys 1 5 10 11710PRTArtificialsignature peptide 117Val Arg Gly Leu Val Arg Ile Arg Cys Val 1 5 10 11810PRTArtificialsignature peptide 118Lys Tyr Ser Ala Trp Lys Arg Val Trp Thr 1 5 10 11910PRTArtificialsignature peptide 119Arg Ile Leu Tyr Phe Met Thr Arg Lys Gly 1 5 10 12010PRTArtificialsignature peptide 120Met Ala Arg Thr Tyr Arg Cys Gly Met Lys 1 5 10 121100PRTArtificialtandem polypeptide 121Lys Lys Tyr Arg Lys Cys Glu Lys Ala Gly Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Ala 1 5 10 15 Ala Ser Arg Gly Arg Ser Lys Lys Arg Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg Ser 20 25 30 Ser Gly Arg Gln Ala Lys Lys Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Val Arg Gly 35 40 45 Leu Val Arg Ile Arg Cys Val Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Tyr Ser Ala 50 55 60 Trp Lys Arg Val Trp Thr Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg Ile Leu Tyr Phe 65 70 75 80 Met Thr Arg Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Met Ala Arg Thr Tyr Arg 85 90 95 Cys Gly Met Lys 100 122322DNAArtificialencoding seqence 122gacacggatc caagaaatac cgtaaatgcg agaaagcagg aggtggcggc ggaagcgcgg 60cttcccgtgg ccgttcaaaa aaacgtggcg gtggagggtc ccggagcagc ggccgtcagg 120cgaaaaagaa gggtggtggg ggatctgtgc gtggcctggt gcgtattcgt tgcgttgggg 180ggggtggatc aaaatactct gcgtggaaac gtgtgtggac cggcggaggc ggcagtcgta 240tcctgtattt catgacccgt aaaggaggag ggggaggctc gatggcgcgt acctatcgtt 300gtgggatgaa agaattcgtg tc 32212341DNAArtificialprimer 123gacacggatc caagaaatac cgtaaatgcg agaaagcagg a 4112440DNAArtificialprimer 124gccgcgcttc cgccgccacc tcctgctttc tcgcatttac 4012540DNAArtificialprimer 125gcggaagcgc ggcttcccgt ggccgttcaa aaaaacgtgg 4012640DNAArtificialprimer 126ctgctccggg accctccacc gccacgtttt tttgaacggc 4012740DNAArtificialprimer 127agggtcccgg agcagcggcc gtcaggcgaa aaagaagggt 4012840DNAArtificialprimer 128gccacgcaca gatcccccac cacccttctt tttcgcctga 4012940DNAArtificialprimer 129gggatctgtg cgtggcctgg tgcgtattcg ttgcgttggg 4013040DNAArtificialprimer 130cagagtattt tgatccaccc cccccaacgc aacgaatacg 4013140DNAArtificialprimer 131ggggtggatc aaaatactct gcgtggaaac gtgtgtggac 4013240DNAArtificialprimer 132gatacgactg ccgcctccgc cggtccacac acgtttccac 4013340DNAArtificialprimer 133gaggcggcag tcgtatcctg tatttcatga cccgtaaagg 4013440DNAArtificialprimer 134atcgagcctc cccctcctcc tttacgggtc atgaaataca 4013540DNAArtificialprimer 135gagggggagg ctcgatggcg cgtacctatc gttgtgggat 4013635DNAArtificialprimer 136gacacgaatt ctttcatccc acaacgatag gtacg 35137100PRTArtificialantigen 137Gly Lys Leu Leu Gly Gln Gly Ala Phe Gly Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Pro 1 5 10 15 Asp Ser Pro Glu Thr Ser Lys Glu Val Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly 20 25 30 Ser Val Lys Asp Gln Leu Lys Ala Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg Lys Tyr 35 40 45 Thr Arg Gln Ile Leu Glu Gly Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Val Lys Leu Gly 50 55 60 Asp Phe Gly Ala Ser Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Met Asp Glu Gln Glu 65 70 75 80 Ala Leu Asn Ser Ile Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Leu Thr His His Phe Ala 85 90 95 Gln Leu Met Tyr 100 138100PRTArtificialantigen 138Ala Gln Thr Gln Gly Thr Arg Arg Lys Val Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Ser 1 5 10 15 Val Ala Ser Ala Val Lys Leu Asn Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg Asp 20 25 30 Gly Ile Asp Asp Glu Ser Tyr Glu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Pro Asp Phe 35 40 45 Lys Leu His Ile Ser Pro Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Arg Lys 50 55 60 Asn Ser Ser Asn Phe Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Gly Val Lys Glu 65 70 75 80 Glu Val Lys Leu Ala Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Pro Val Met Ser Lys 85 90 95 Val Met Glu Met 100 139100PRTArtificialantigen 139Ala Ala Asp Gly Gly Glu Glu Glu Ala Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gln Asp 1 5 10 15 Arg Val Ala Arg Ala Ala Gly Arg Glu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Met Lys 20 25 30 Phe Gly Lys Ser Leu Ser Ser Gln Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Asp Leu 35 40 45 Lys Lys Arg Leu Lys Leu Ile Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Glu Arg Gln 50 55 60 Ala Lys Arg Ala Arg Val Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Asp Ser Ser Pro 65 70 75 80 Glu Glu Gln Gln Glu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Ile Pro Val Ile Glu 85 90 95 Gln Ala Ala Lys 100 140100PRTArtificialantigen 140Gln Lys Met Glu Val Gln Gly Asn Leu Phe Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys 1 5 10 15 Lys Lys His Ala Asn Asp Leu Gln His Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Thr 20 25 30 Tyr Asp Pro Glu Gly Lys Phe Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Pro Lys Arg 35 40 45 Asp Asp Asp Asn Ala Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Lys His 50 55 60 Ser Ser Glu Thr Pro Gln Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Arg Asn Tyr 65 70 75 80 Thr Asn Leu Lys Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Arg Asn Glu Pro Tyr 85 90 95 Asn Ile Val Asp 100 141100PRTArtificialantigen 141Asp Gly Val Tyr Ser Lys Lys Lys His Ala Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg 1 5 10 15 Ala Lys Lys Asn Asn Val Glu Lys Ile Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Asn 20 25 30 Phe Met Glu Glu Lys Asp Lys Gln Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Pro Lys Pro 35 40 45 Asp Asp Ala Lys Ala Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ala Gln Ile 50 55 60 Lys Lys Gln Glu Asn Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Lys Lys Ile Thr 65 70 75 80 Asn His Ser Asn Arg Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Arg Asn Tyr Thr 85 90 95 Asn Leu Lys Lys 100 142100PRTArtificialantigen 142Lys Thr Asn Lys Thr Phe Lys Ile Lys Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asn 1 5 10 15 Lys Lys Lys His Glu Asn Asp Leu Arg Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Thr 20 25 30 Tyr Asp Pro Lys Gly Glu Phe Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Pro Gly Phe 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Asn Glu Gln Asp Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Tyr Lys 50 55 60 Pro Leu Ile Glu Gln Val Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Lys Thr Pro Glu Asn 65 70 75 80 Ile Asn Ala Val Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Arg Asn Tyr Thr 85 90 95 Asn Leu Lys Lys 100 143100PRTArtificialantigen 143Asn Lys Lys Lys His Glu Asn Asp Leu Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu 1 5 10 15 Thr Tyr Asp Pro Lys Gly Glu Phe Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Thr 20 25 30 Lys Asn Gln Gly Leu Lys Val Asp Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Glu Met 35 40 45 Gly Leu Asp Phe Asp Arg Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Tyr Lys 50 55 60 Pro Leu Ile Glu Gln Val Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Lys Arg Asn Tyr 65 70 75 80 Thr Asn Leu Lys Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Arg Asn Glu Pro Tyr 85 90 95 Asn Ile Val Asp 100 14469PRTArtificialantigen 144Lys Lys Tyr Arg Lys Cys Glu Lys Ala Gly Ala Gln Thr Gln Gly Thr 1 5 10 15 Arg Arg Lys Val Ala Ala Asp Gly Gly Glu Glu Glu Ala Gln Lys Met 20 25 30 Glu Val Gln Gly Asn Leu Phe Asp Gly Val Tyr Ser Lys Lys Lys His 35 40 45 Ala Lys Thr Asn Lys Thr Phe Lys Ile Lys Lys Asn Lys Lys Lys His 50 55 60 Glu Asn Asp Leu Lys 65 14571PRTArtificialantigen 145Ala Ala Ser Arg Gly Arg Ser Lys Lys Arg Ser Val Ala Ser Ala Val 1 5 10 15 Lys Leu Asn Lys Gln Asp Arg Val Ala Arg Ala Ala Gly Arg Glu Lys 20 25 30 Lys Lys His Ala Asn Asp Leu Gln His Arg Ala Lys Lys Asn Asn Val 35 40 45 Glu Lys Ile Asn Lys Lys Lys His Glu Asn Asp Leu Arg Glu Thr Tyr 50 55 60 Asp Pro Lys Gly Glu Phe Leu 65 70 14670PRTArtificialantigen 146Arg Ser Ser Gly Arg Gln Ala Lys Lys Lys Arg Asp Gly Ile Asp Asp 1 5 10 15 Glu Ser Tyr Glu Met Lys Phe Gly Lys Ser Leu Ser Ser Gln Glu Thr 20 25 30 Tyr Asp Pro Glu Gly Lys Phe Leu Lys Asn Phe Met Glu Glu Lys Asp 35 40 45 Lys Gln Glu Thr Tyr Asp Pro Lys Gly Glu Phe Leu Asp Thr Lys Asn 50 55 60 Gln Gly Leu Lys Val Asp 65 70 14769PRTArtificialantigen 147Val Arg Gly Leu Val Arg Ile Arg Cys Val Pro Asp Phe Lys Leu His 1 5 10 15 Ile Ser Pro Ser Lys Asp Leu Lys Lys Arg Leu Lys Leu Ile Pro Lys 20 25 30 Arg Asp Asp Asp Asn Ala Lys Gly Pro Lys Pro Asp Asp Ala Lys Ala 35 40 45 Lys Gly Pro Gly Phe Leu Tyr Asn Glu Gln Asp Lys Gly Glu Met Gly 50 55 60 Leu Asp Phe Asp Arg 65 14870PRTArtificialantigen 148Lys Tyr Ser Ala Trp Lys Arg Val Trp Thr Gly Gly Arg Lys Asn Ser 1 5 10 15 Ser Asn Phe Lys Glu Glu Arg Gln Ala Lys Arg Ala Arg Val Glu Lys 20 25 30 Lys His Ser Ser Glu Thr Pro Gln Asp Ala Gln Ile Lys Lys Gln Glu 35 40 45 Asn Lys Glu Lys Tyr Lys Pro Leu Ile Glu Gln Val Glu Lys Tyr Lys 50 55 60 Pro Leu Ile Glu Gln Val 65 70 14970PRTArtificialantigen 149Arg Ile Leu Tyr Phe Met Thr Arg Lys Gly Lys Gly Val Lys Glu Glu 1 5 10 15 Val Lys Leu Ala Gly Asp Ser Ser Pro Glu Glu Gln Gln Glu Glu Lys 20 25 30 Arg Asn Tyr Thr Asn Leu Lys Lys Lys Lys Lys Ile Thr Asn His Ser 35 40 45 Asn Arg Lys Thr Pro Glu Asn Ile Asn Ala Val Lys Glu Lys Arg Asn 50 55 60 Tyr Thr Asn Leu Lys Lys 65 70 15070PRTArtificialantigen 150Met Ala Arg Thr Tyr Arg Cys Gly Met Lys Lys Pro Val Met Ser Lys 1 5 10 15 Val Met Glu Met Lys Ile Pro Val Ile Glu Gln Ala Ala Lys Glu Arg 20 25 30 Asn Glu Pro Tyr Asn Ile Val Asp Glu Lys Arg Asn Tyr Thr Asn Leu 35 40 45 Lys Lys Glu Lys Arg Asn Tyr Thr Asn Leu Lys Lys Asp Arg Asn Glu 50 55 60 Pro Tyr Asn Ile Val Asp 65 70 15110PRTArtificialepitope 151Gly Lys Leu Leu Gly Gln Gly Ala Phe Gly 1 5 10 15210PRTArtificialepitope 152Pro Asp Ser Pro Glu Thr Ser Lys Glu Val 1 5 10 15310PRTArtificialepitope 153Gly Gly Ser Val Lys Asp Gln Leu Lys Ala 1 5 10 15410PRTArtificialepitope 154Arg Lys Tyr Thr Arg Gln Ile Leu Glu Gly 1 5 10 15510PRTArtificialepitope 155Val Lys Leu Gly Asp Phe Gly Ala Ser Lys 1 5 10 15610PRTArtificialepitope 156Met Asp Glu Gln Glu Ala Leu Asn Ser Ile 1 5 10 15710PRTArtificialepitope 157Leu Thr His His Phe Ala Gln Leu Met Tyr 1 5 10 1585PRTArtificiallinker 158Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser 1 5 15961DNAArtificialmultiple cloning site 159gtggcggatc ctatcagatc tatcgggtac cgtatcgcgg ccgcttccat atggaattcg 60g 6116061DNAArtificialmultiple cloning site 160ccgaattcca tatggaagcg gccgcgatac ggtacccgat agatctgata ggatccgcca 60c 611618PRTArtificialBeta-gal 161Met Thr Met Ile Thr Asp Ser Leu 1 5 16212PRTArtificiallinker 162Glu Glu Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly

Ser 1 5 10 16312PRTArtificiallinker 163Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Glu Glu 1 5 10 1646PRTArtificiallinker 164His His His His His His 1 5

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