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OmpA-scFv(Anti-EGFR)

Introduction:

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To display the antibody outside the E.coli, we used Lipoprotein-Outer membrane protein A (Lpp-OmpA). According to the paper reference [1], We chose the first 9 amino acid of Lpp, and the 46~159 amino acid of OmpA.
In order to change the scFv parts easily, we added a NcoI restriction site between OmpA and scFv so that we can change vario us scFv DNA sequence using the NcoI restriction enzyme.

Experiment:

After receiving the DNA sequences from the gene synthesis company, we recombined each OmpA-N-scFv gene to PSB1C3 backbones and conducted a PCR experiment to check the size of each of the OmpA-N-scFvs. The DNA sequence length of the OmpA-N-scFvs are around 1000~1200 bp. In this PCR experiment, the OmpA-N-scFv products size should be near at 1200~1400 bp. The Fig. showed the correct size of the scFv, and proved that we successful ligated the scFv sequence onto an ideal backbone.

Sequence and Features