The pMAZ-AG8H and pMAZ-AG8L plasmids, which encode the heavy and light chains of AG8 IgG, respectively, were constructed using an eCube Plasmid DNA Mini Kit (PhileKorea, Seoul, Korea) and transfected into Expi293 cells using polyethyleneimine, as described in the literature
26 . After resuspension of the cells in 300 ml of GIBCO FreeStyle
TM medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), incubation at 37 °C with shaking at 125 rpm under 8% CO
2 for 6 days, and centrifugation at 4000×
g, the supernatants were mixed with 40 ml of 25 × PBS (pH 7.4) and 1 ml of a slurry of
Protein A agarose resin (GenScript, Piscataway, NJ, USA). The resuspension was incubated at 4 °C for 16 h and passed through a
polypropylene column (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) to recover the resin. Next, 100 ml of 1× PBS (pH 7.4) was added to the column to wash the resin, and 3 ml of 100 mM glycine-HCl buffer (pH 2.5) was loaded onto the column for elution. The eluents were immediately neutralized by the addition of 1 ml of Tris-Cl (pH 8.0). After buffer exchange with 1× PBS (pH 7.4) using Amicon Ultra
®4 spin columns (Merck Millipore; 3-kDa cutoff), the concentration and purity of AG8 IgG were analyzed by measuring the absorbance at 280 nm and by 4–15% SDS–PAGE.
Ju M.S., Ahn H.M., Han S.G., Ko S., Na J.H., Jo M., Lim C.S., Ko B.J., Yu Y.G., Lee W.K., Kim Y.J, & Jung S.T. (2021). A human antibody against human endothelin receptor type A that exhibits antitumor potency. Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 53(9), 1437-1448.