Abstract
Since the discovery of mouse hybridoma technology by Kohler and Milstein in 1975, significant progress has been made in monoclonal antibody production. Advances in B cell immortalization and phage display technologies have generated a myriad of valuable monoclonal antibodies for diagnosis and treatment. Technological breakthroughs in various fields of ‘omics have shed crucial insights into cellular heterogeneity of a biological system in which the functional individuality of a single cell must be considered. Based on this important concept, remarkable discoveries in single-cell analysis have made in identifying and isolating functional B cells that produce beneficial therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. In this review, we will discuss three traditional methods of antibody discovery. Recent technological platforms for single-cell antibody discovery will be reviewed. We will discuss the application of the single-cell analysis in finding therapeutic antibodies for human immunodeficiency virus and emerging Zika arbovirus.
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This work was supported by the Florida Department of Health, Biomedical Research Program (JKY, CQN) and NIAID 1R21AI130561-01A1 (CQN).
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Voigt, A., Semenova, T., Yamamoto, J., Etienne, V., Nguyen, C.Q. (2018). Therapeutic Antibody Discovery in Infectious Diseases Using Single-Cell Analysis. In: Gu, J., Wang, X. (eds) Single Cell Biomedicine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1068. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0502-3_8
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