Preparation of Alpaca Immune Repertoire and Selection of Nano-antibody against Malachite Green
Malachite green(MG)is a kind of primary dye that is soluble in water and ethanol,and has been applied in many industries,especially to fight against many diseases of aquatic animals,such as fungal diseases,parasitic diseases and bacterial diseases. But it has been banned due to its adverse reaction such as carcinogenicity. However,it is necessary to strengthen the detection of drug residues from MG that is still illegally used in aquatic products in markets. In this study,nano-antibody with high affinity and specificity against MG was selected from alpaca immune repertoire through the phage by ELISA,then was used to support the rescue of phage M13,so that nano-antibody gene(VHH)could be fused and expressed with the coat protein gene of the phage,and VHH protein could be shown on the surface of the phage to obtain the single phagocytic colonies containing the targeting gene by means of limited dilution screening and multiple elution;the recombinant plasmid PMES4-VHH were transformed into expression cells and expressed in vitro,then His-tag purification was carried out by the NI-NTA column to obtain the nano-antibody against MG that was identified by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. It was concluded that the immune repertoire was successfully constructed with a capacity of 3.2×108 cfu/mL;16 colonies with inhibitory effect were screened by ELISA,two kinds of amino acid sequences were obtained by sequencing and translating the phage genes;PMES4-VHH was transformed into the expression strain for expression and purification,and the nano-antibody of about 15 kDa against MG was produced,which paved the way to future detection of MG.