EXPRESSION OF SINGLE CHAIN ANTIBODY TO COLLAGENASE IV BY PICHIA PASTORIS / 微生物学通报

ABSTRACT

To express human single chain antibody to collagenase IV as soluble proteins secreted by pichia pastoris, a recombinant vector scFv-pPIC9 was constructed, and then transformed into pichia pastoris GS115 by electuoporation, The transformants were selected by DNA hybridization and cultured in the media with methanlo. Soluble scFv were secreted into culturesupernatant and characterized by SDS-PAGE and Western Blot. Our results showed that the secreting of soluble scFv in pichia pastoris was as high as 20mg/L. The soluble scFv has similar immuno-activity to its counterpart produced in bacteria, and it is more easily and efficiently purified.