Title
Production of a murine mAb against Bothrops alternatus and B. neuwiedi snake venoms and its use to isolate a thrombin-like serine protease fraction
Date Issued
01 August 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Belo A.A.
Naves de Souza D.L.
de Melo-Braga M.N.
Lopes de Souza L.
Molina Molina D.A.
Vaz de Melo P.D.
Larsen M.R.
Guerra-Duarte C.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Accidents with snakes from the genus Bothrops represent ~90 % of all snakebites in Brazil. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting venom components can be important assets for treating envenoming syndromes, for developing diagnostic tests and for research purposes. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to generate murine mAbs against the antigenic mixture of Bothropic venoms traditionally used as immunogen to produce Bothropic antivenoms in Brazil. ELISA showed that one of the produced mAbs recognizes B. alternatus and B. neuwiedi venoms (mAb anti-Ba/Bn) specifically and Western Blot revealed that this mAb binds to a single protein band of molecular mass of ≈50 kDa. MAb anti-Ba/Bn inhibited the coagulant activity but was unable to neutralize hemorrhagic and phospholipase A2 activities caused by the B. neuwiedi venom. MAb anti-Ba/Bn was immobilized to Sepharose beads and used for immunoaffinity chromatography of B. neuwiedi venom. Proteolytic activity assays indicated that the immunoaffinity-purified fraction (BnF-Bothrops neuwiedi fraction) has a serine protease thrombin-like profile, which was supported by coagulability assays in mice. Bottom-up proteomic analysis confirmed the prevalence of serine proteases in BnF using label-free quantification. In conclusion, this work characterized a mAb with neutralizing properties against B. neuwiedi coagulant activity and demonstrates that immunoaffinity chromatography using mAbs can be a useful technique for purification of bioactive toxic proteins from Bothrops spp. snake venoms.
Start page
530
End page
541
Volume
214
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Toxicología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132896159
PubMed ID
Source
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
ISSN of the container
01418130
Sponsor(s)
This study was funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico , Brazil (CNPq) (Process: 406163/2018-9 ), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil - (Program COFECUB Process: 88881.191812/2018-01 ) and by 021-2019-FONDECYT-PROCIENCIA-BM-Incorporación de Investigadores-Perú .
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