Construction of plasmids expressing recombinant B cell epitopes of PD1

Background: Medications on cancer to date in Indonesia is mostly by surgical or chemotherapy, this type of medications is not always curing the patients. The side effect of the chemotherapy drugs sometimes more challenging such as hair loss, nausea and lost weight. One of the promising targets for cancer is using immune therapy. Cancer cells can avoid immune response by surprising immunity through activation of specific inhibitory signalling pathways, referred to as immune checkpoints. Immune check points like PD-1, PD-L1 are breakthrough therapies in oncology and this monoclonal antibody have been approved by the FDA for treatment. In this research we develop full PD-1 and part of PD1 sequence as an insert then we construct with plasmid PQE80L. This recombinant called PQE PD-1 and PQEEP2PD1. The aim of this study is to make recombinant which would be used to detect PD1 full clone monoclonal antibodies.


Methods: In this study, we designed our recombinants using Indonesian HLA and others using in silico models, this prototype will not only cover Indonesian patients but also other country.


Results: The result showed that the epitope sequence of PD1 has been clone to PQE 80 wt and verified using colony PCR, Enzyme Digestion and Sanger Sequencing. The Clone than will be expressed and injected to animal model to produce antibody.


Conclusion: Construction of recombinant PQE PD-1 and PQE EP2PD1 are constructed without any mutation in the sequence, this recombinant can be used in the next study for protein expression of PQE PD-1 and PQE EP2PD1.


Keywords: PD1, Epitope , Cancer, Immunotherapy