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Agarose Bead Technologies (ABT) is excited to announce our participation in several important trade fairs this October.
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Agarose Bead Technologies has enhanced its Burgos facility by boosting its agarose resin production to 100,000 liters annually to position itself as a powerhouse in the novel therapies market.
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Unveiling the role of TAOK3 and SHP-1 in T cell activation: Protein isolation and purification
Modulation of SHP-1 abundance by TAOK3 serves as a rheostat for TCR signaling and determines the activation threshold of T lymphocytes.
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"ABT Antibody Purification resins have demonstrated that the instability of the HIV HLA-E peptidome may be a significant barrier to therapeutic targeting of these antigens"
Naturally occurring T cells may play a crucial role in universal immunotherapy by recognizing antigens through nonpolymorphic human leukocyte class Ib (HLA-E).
However, uncertainties remain regarding the biological relevance of these ligands due to poorly understood mechanisms of pathogen-derived peptide access to the HLA-E pathway.
Therefore, studying these HLA-E ligands is essential for addressing diseases as significant as HIV (1,2).
In this paper, among other informatic and cellular assays, researchers proceed with an immunopurification of peptide-HLA complexes from HIV infected cells using high-performance Agarose Bead Technologies (ABT) resins (Fig 1).
The ABT resins used were Protein L Agarose Resin linked to 3D12 antibody and Protein A Agarose Resin.
Figure 1. Schematic representation of performed cellular and biochemical assays followed by immunopurification (Adapted from 1).
The study highlights the potential contribution of ABT resins in pharmacological research and treatments.
ABT Antibody Purification Chromatography Resins have demonstrated that the instability of the HIV HLA-E peptidome may be a significant barrier to therapeutic targeting of these antigens.
Therefore, this instability must be considered a major challenge for drug development (3).
Further investigations should focus on achieving stable peptide HLA-E presentation to ensure consistent on-target immunotherapeutics.
- Wallace et al.,Instability of the HLA-E peptidome of HIV presents a major barrier to therapeutic targeting, Molecular Therapy (2024).
- Strong, R.K., Holmes, M.A., Li, P., Braun, L., Lee, N., and Geraghty, D.E. (2003). HLA-E Allelic Variants correlating differential expression, peptide affinities, crystal structures, and thermal stabilities. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5082–5090.
- Sauter, J., Putke, K., Schefzyk, D., Pruschke, J., Solloch, U.V., Bernas, S.N., Massalski, C., Daniel, K., Klussmeier, A., Hofmann, J.A., et al. (2021). HLA-E typing of more than 2.5 million potential hematopoietic stem cell donors: Methods and population-specific allele frequencies. Hum. Immunol. 82, 541–547.