Antibody and Immunoassay Services, HKU
Antibody and Immunoassay Services, HKU

Monoclonal Antibody Development

Monoclonal antibodies have become an essential tool for basic research in life science, in vitro diagnostics, and therapeutics. Our team has extensive experience in producing highly specific monoclonal antibodies suitable for a variety of applications. We can guarantee to generate positive clones to the customer immunogens by ELISA, though a customer should be aware that the supplied immunogen may not produce the immune response required for a cell fusion. The timeline for the standard monoclonal antibody production is summarized as in table below. In brief, three mice will be immunized for three times each, and the titer of antibody will be evaluated by ELISA twice. We will inform and discuss with our customers if a cell fusion will be performed based on the antibody titer. Once the hybridoma cell lines for secretion of a specific antibody are established, we also provide services for subcloning, isotype characterization, medium-scale production and purification etc.

Days

Task

Notes

Day 1

1st Immunization

50ug antigen per mouse

Day 14

2nd Immunization

50ug antigen per mouse

Day 27

Bleed test

ELISA to evaluate titer

Day 28

3rd Immunization

50ug antigen per mouse

Day 42 Bleed test ELISA to evaluate titer

Day 43

4th Immunization

20ug antigen per mouse

Day 46

Cell fusion

Fusion of spleen cells from immunized mouse with SP2/0 myeloma cells to generate hybridomas

Day 56 - 57

Screening ELISA to screen positive hybridoma clones

Day 76 - 90

Sucloning of positive hybridomas

Limit dilution to select single clones of positive hybridomas

Day 91 - 120

Antibody production

Production and purification of monoclonal antibodies from ascitic fluid or culture medium


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