title: An extreme strategy for the production of hybridoma.
abstract: The ethical issues surrounding human immunization hamper the production of human monoclonal antibody through scarcity of immunized B cells in peripheral blood. This defect can be compensated in part by improvement of hybridoma production techniques. We have developed a new strategy to bypass the toxic effects of polyethylene glycol (PEG) as fusogenic reagent and hypoxanthine aminoptrin thymidine (HAT) as selective medium on newly fused cells. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) transformed peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of accidentally Rh antigen sensitized persons were fused using cephalin as fugenic reagent, with emetine and actinomycin D pretreated heteromyeloma cells. Our results showed that 19-34% of EBV-transformed B cells were grown as hybridoma clones following selection. This extreme improvement in hybridoma production rate may end the fusion efficiency problem and make hybridoma production a plug-and-play technology.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization, Iranian Blood Research & Fractionation Co., Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Golestani
authors.forename: Ali Akbar
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Pourfathollah
authors.forename: Seyed Mohammad
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Moazzeni
mesh_terms: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D002459:Cell Fusion / Q000379:methods; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human; D006801:Humans; D006825:Hybridomas / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000166:cytology*; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines