Abstract
Expression of T-cell receptor (TCR) genes is a critical step for TCR characterization and epitope identification. The recent interest in using specific TCRs for cancer immunotherapy has further increased the demand for practical and robust methods to rapidly clone and express TCRs. We show that a recombination-based cloning protocol facilitates simple and rapid transfer of the TCR transgene into different expression systems. In this protocol, we first constructed all the human TRAV and TRBV genes into individual plasmid. To clone any TCR, we only need to ligate a short CDR3 fragment to its corresponding V gene plasmid using Golden Gate cloning. This strategy significantly improves the efficiency of individual TCR cloning and mutagenesis, providing a flexible high-throughput method for TCR analysis and TCR-mediated therapeutics.
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Xia, Q., Huang, H., Davis, M.M. (2022). A High-Throughput Strategy for T-Cell Receptor Cloning and Expression. In: Huang, H., Davis, M.M. (eds) T-Cell Repertoire Characterization. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2574. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2712-9_12
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