Characterization of Asia 1 sdAb from camels bactrianus (C. bactrianus) and conjugation with quantum dots for imaging FMDV in BHK-21 cells.

Characterization of Asia 1 sdAb from camels bactrianus (C. bactrianus) and conjugation with quantum dots for imaging FMDV in BHK-21 cells.

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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), caused by FMD virus (FMDV), is a highly contagious viral disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals.Camelids have a unique immunoglobulin profile, with the smallest functional heavy-chain antibodies (sdAb or VHH) naturally devoid of light chains with antigen-binding capacity.We screened and characterized five sdAbs Crop Tee against FMDV by immunized library from C.bactrianus with Asia 1 virus-like particles (VLPs).

Three of five recombinant sdAbs were stably expressed in E.coli, remained highly soluble, and were serotype-specific for VP1 protein of FMDV Asia 1 by ELISA.These failed to completely neutralize the Asia 1 virus.According to the KD value of binding affinity to three sdAbs, which ranged from 0.

44 to Long Sleeve 0.71 nm by SPR, sdAb-C6 was selected and conjugated with Zn/CdSe quantum dots (QDs) to form a QDs-C6 probe, which was used to trace and image the subcellular location of FMDV in BHK-21 cells.The results show that FMD virions were observed from 3 h.p.

i., and most of virions were distributed on one side of the nucleus in the cytoplasm.We demonstrate the utility of sdAbs as functionalized QDs are powerful tools for FMDV research.