Han Kee Ong, Ngan T B Nguyen, Jiawu Bi, Yuansheng Yang
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Abstract
Background: Two-armed FabscFv-Fc is a favoured bispecific antibody (BsAb) format due to its advantages of the conventional IgG structure. Production of FabscFv-Fc requires expression of three polypeptide chains, one light chain (LC), one heavy chain (HC) and a scFv fused to the Fc (scFvFc) at optimal ratios.
Methods: We designed a set of internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated multi-cistronic vectors tailoring to various expression ratios of the three polypeptides to study how the chain ratios affect the FabscFv-Fc production.
Results: Expression of HC and scFvFc chains at 1:1 ratio and excess LC gave the highest yield of correctly assembled product. Compared to the use of IRES and multiple promoters, using 2A peptides for co-expression of the three polypeptides gave the highest titre and correctly assembled product.
Conclusion: The results obtained in this work provide insights to the impacts of hetero-chain ratios on the BsAb production.