Selection of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) specific recombinant monoclonal phage display antibodies for prey detection analysis

摘要

[EN]Several recombinant antibodies against the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae),\udone of the most important pests in agriculture worldwide, were selected for the first time from a commercial phage display\udlibrary of human scFv antibodies. The specificity and sensitivity of the selected recombinant antibodies were compared with\udthat of a rabbit polyclonal serum raised in parallel using a wide range of arthropod species as controls. The selected\udrecombinant monoclonal antibodies had a similar or greater specificity when compared with classical monoclonal antibodies. The selected recombinant antibodies were successfully used to detect the target antigen in the gut of predators and the scFv antibodies were sequenced and compared. These results demonstrate the potential for recombinant scFv antibodies to be used as an alternative to the classical monoclonal antibodies or even molecular probes in the post-mortem analysis studies of generalist predators