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Abstract

The intracellular targeting of recombinant antibodies is an experimental strategy to interfere with the function of selected molecules that is being utilized in a variety of different systems for research and medical applications. Since recombinant antibodies are increasingly being derived from phage display libraries, we have exploited phage technology to isolate, from a large combinatorial library, human antibody fragments directed against human immunodeficiency virustype 1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1 RT). We describe in this paper the and properties of a neutralizing anti-RT antibody fragment. We demonstrate that the heavy chain domain (VH-CH1) of the phage-derived antibody is able to inhibit the retroviral enzyme, in that it neutralizes the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity of HIV-1 RT. TheVH-CH1 antibody fragment also neutralizes the activity of RT of drug-resistant HIV-1 mutants as well as that of murine retrovirus RT. To confirm the broad reactivity of the synthetic antibody fragment, we have assessed the ability of the intracellularly expressed VH-CH1 protein to interfere with murine retroviral infection. To this end, we developed an selection procedure based on the antibody-mediated resistance to a cytotoxic retrovirus and used this selection procedure to rescue, from a heterogeneous population, cells expressing the VH-CH1 antibody fragment. We finally demonstrate that the intracellular expression of the recombinant heavy chain antibody fragment leads to an efficient inhibition of viral retrotranscription by murine-based retrovirus.

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