The stable expression of the humanized antibody was obtained as described previously [57 (link)]. Briefly, YB2/0 cells (ATCC CRL1662) were stably transfected with the linearized expression vectors. The hu8ELC18 antibody was produced in YB2/0 over 5–7 days using EMS (Invitrogen, Villebon Sur Yvette, France), 5% ultra low IgG FCS (PAA) and 0.5 g/L G418. The monoclonal hu8ELC18 was purified from culture supernatant by affinity chromatography onto protein A sepharose (GE-Healthcare, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, 28-9365-47). The level of aggregates and endotoxins were determined by gel filtration on Superdex HR/200 (GE-Healthcare, 17-5175-01) and by LAL (limulous amoebocyte lysate) testing [58 (link)], respectively, and were always below 2%. Antibody quality and purity was also controlled by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie staining. In addition, glycosylation patterns and the core fucose percentage were determined for each purified antibody by high performance capillary electrophoresis laser induced fluorescence (HPCE-Lif) [59 (link),60 (link)] confirming the characteristic with EMABling platform (LFB, Alès, France).
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