Poultry Science (Feb 2025)

Monoclonal antibody development and antigenic epitope identification of chicken pro-IL-1β

  • Mengmeng Xu,
  • Mengmeng Huang,
  • Guodong WANG,
  • Jingzhe HAN,
  • Xinxin NIU,
  • Jinze HAN,
  • Hangbo YU,
  • Yulong ZHANG,
  • Runhang LIU,
  • Ziwen WU,
  • Hongyu Cui,
  • Yanping Zhang,
  • Suyan Wang,
  • Yongzhen Liu,
  • Yuntong Chen,
  • Yulu Duan,
  • Liuan Li,
  • Yulong Gao,
  • Xiaole Qi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 104, no. 2
p. 104807

Abstract

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Pro-IL-1β is an important inflammatory factor and is also a biomarker for detecting early pro-inflammatory immune responses. However, commercially available antibodies against chicken inflammatory factors are lacking, which prohibits an in-depth exploration of the mechanism of chicken inflammation. This study cloned and expressed chicken pro-IL-1β, and developed a hybridoma cell line 1E12 capable of stably secreting chicken pro-IL-1β monoclonal antibody (mAb). The secreted mAb 1E12 can recognize exogenous or endogenous chicken pro-IL-1β by Western blot and IFA techniques, and for the first time, a novel antigen epitope 13SSLSEETFY21 of chicken pro-IL-1β recognized by this mAb was identified. This study not only provides an important tool for the detection and research of chicken pro-IL-1β, but also has significant implications for understanding the antigenic structure and biochemical characteristics of chicken pro-IL-1β.

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