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To assess the purity and integrity of recombinant human NI-308 antibodies. In brief, human NI-308 antibodies were expressed by transient transfections of CHO-S cells and purified by protein A affinity purification on an FPLC system (ÄKTApurifier; GE Healthcare Life Sciences). After PD-10 column (GE Healthcare Life Sciences) desalting, antibodies were formulated in PBS. Five μg of purified recombinant human NI-308 antibodies were resolved under reducing conditions by gradient SDS-PAGE (Novex® Bis-Tris NuPAGE® 4-12%; Life Technologies Europe B.V., Zug, Switzerland) using Novex® NuPAGE® MES SDS Running Buffer complemented with antioxidant (Life Technologies Europe B.V., Zug, Switzerland) followed by Coomassie blue staining (Novex® SimplyBlue™ SafeStain, Life Technologies Europe B.V., Zug, Switzerland). As a result, SDS-PAGE analysis under reducing conditions of the recombinant human NI-308 antibodies revealed two major bands corresponding to the antibody heavy and light chains at the expected size. No significant contaminations or proteolytic degradation products were detectable (