Abstract
High-affinity bacterially expressed antibody fragments can nowadays be cloned from established hybridomas or, more conveniently, isolated directly from antibody libraries displayed on filamentous phage. Such antibodies can be tagged with C-terminal peptide tags containing one cysteine residue, which represents a convenient functionalisation site for a number of applications, including technetium-99m labelling. Here we describe a simple one-step method for99m-Tc labelling of cysteine-tagged recombinant antibodies with more than 50% radionuclide incorporation. The labelled antibodies displayed full retention of immuoreactivity and good stability.
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Liberatore, M., Neri, D., Neri, G. et al. Efficient one-step direct labelling of recombinant antibodies with technetium-99m. Eur J Nucl Med 22, 1326–1329 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00801622
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