HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES DIRECTED TO SIALYL LEWIS C, SIALYL TN AND N-GLYCOLYLNEURAMINIC ACID EPITOPES AND A METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF STEM CELLS COMPRISING SAID EPITOPES

摘要

This invention relates to antibody engineering technology. More particularly, the present invention relates to human IgM antibodies and derivatives thereof, which have novel binding specificity with regard to several oligosaccharide sequences and/or xenoantigenic sialic aicd residue. The present invention also relates to processes for making and engineering such novel saccharide and/or NeuGc-binding monoclonal antibodies and to methods for using these antibodies and derivatives thereof in the field of immunodiagnostics, enabling qualitative and quantitative determination of xenoantigenic NeuGc in biological and raw material samples, as well as in immunotherapy, enabling blocking of xenoantigenic NeuGc in patients.