Screening of antigen-specific antibody-producing cells is a key step for obtaining antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies. In murine system, hybridoma between B-lymphocytes and myeloma cells is used to screen and produce antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies. In human system, good hybridoma-producing system is not available. Instead, transformation of B-lymphocytes with Epstein-Barr viruses is used to obtain antibody-secreting cell lines. Furthermore, phage-display system using molecular biology is recently used to obtain antigen-specific human monoclonal antibodies. Here, we describe the new method for screening antigen-specific antibody-secreting cells at single-cell levels using microwell-array chips. The system can be applied to screen antigen-specific antibody-secreting cells from any animal species. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Kishi, H., Jin, A., Ozawa, T., Tajiri, K., Obata, T., & Muraguchi, A. (2012). Screening of antigen-specific antibody-secreting cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, 853, 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-567-1_11
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