Example 12
The assay described is a homogenous TR-FRET assay using HTRF® assay technology requiring no wash steps. To a Costar 3676 microtitre plate 5 μl/well of biotinylated PD1/Fc at 1 nM diluted into PBS was added. This was followed with the addition of 5 μl/well streptavidin XLent (CisBio) at 4 nM diluted into assay buffer (PBS+0.1% BSA+0.8M KF). 5 μl/well of a titration of sample material diluted in PBS was added to relevant wells. For the definition of total binding, 5 μl of PBS or relevant sample buffer was added per well. To define non-specific binding, an excess (600 nM) of unlabelled B7H1/Fc or PD1/Fc was used. The final process was the addition of 5 μl/well of cryptate labelled B7H1/Fc (cryptate label—CisBio, B7H1/Fc-RnD Systems) diluted 1:100 into assay buffer. The assay plate was left for 3 hours at room temperature before being read on a HTRF® compatible plate reader.
Example of IC50 determinations in the human PD1/human B7-H1 ligand inhibition assay for anti-B7-H1 antibodies are provided in Table 19. All anti-human B7-H1 antibodies are in the IgG1-TM format.