Accurate Antibody Discovery with dCODE® Klickmer 

dCODE® Klickmer Reagents Identify Antigen-Specific B cells at Single-Cell Level for Antibody Discovery 
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Antibodies against foreign antigens are critical components of the overall immune response and can facilitate pathogen clearance during primary infection. Sensitive detection and characterization of antigen-specific B cells are crucial for therapeutic antibody discovery.

Nevertheless, these types of analyses are currently hampered by the lack of technologies allowing comprehensive multiplexed detection of antigen-specific B cells.

The study describes the use of dCODE® Klickmer for customized, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of antigen-specific B cells in antibody discovery.

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Highlights

We demonstrate the power of dCODE® Klickmer in mapping the specific B-cell response to:

  • Assess the specificities of 2000 murine lymph node derived B cells using a next-generation sequencing and custom-produced Protein-X dCODE® Klickmer in just one workflow
  • Develop novel experimental and analytical approaches that ensure fast and reliable identification of antigen-specific B cells
  • Uncover BCR sequences at single-cell resolution for identification of antibodies with Protein-X binding potential
  • Help facilitate a greater understanding of the antigen-specific B-cell response and its applications in the discovery of therapeutic antibodies

Conclusions

  • dCODE® Klickmer allowed identification of 40 Protein-X specific antibodies. Of the identified antibodies, 55% were validated as true Protein-X binders with binding affinity ranging from sub-nanomolar to approximately 400 nM
  • For the first time, dCODE® Klickmer in combination with 10x 5´Feature Barcoding Technology was applied to antibody discovery
  • dCODE® Klickmer provides a faster and cost-effective alternative to classical methods used today for antibody discovery

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