This is up to you. it’s your choice. The important question is how do you make an antibody? I have to say all of them have their historical and technological origins in a furry beasty, notable mice and rats.
You said “ I read that ocrelizumab was made from Chinese hamster ovary cells…. Is my ocrelizumab harvested inside a hamster?”
Fear not, this is not the product of the reproductive cycle of Hammy the Hamster.
Monoclonal antibodies, of which ocrelizumab is one example, mean that every antibody molecule is the same having come from one cell (mono (one)-clonal (clone). Ocrelizumab has its origins in a mouse. Furry beasties were probably injected with human CD20 protien and then their spleen B cells were fused with a mouse B cell cancer cell line such (For example NS-1, SP2/0 cells). This makes the B cell that produces the antibody to become immortal and so can be grown for ever.
Then, the bods from Genetech (Roche) engineered the parent mouse monoclonal antibody [termed 2H7-probably the second 96 cell well plate which is 12 (1-12) x 8 (A-H) so the positive well was on the last row of the 7th column] to be humanised and called it ocrelizumab
They grew ocrelizumab in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. These are an epithelial cell line derived from the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of therapeutic proteins. They have found wide use in studies of genetics, toxicity screening, nutrition and gene expression, particularly to express recombinant proteins. CHO cells are the most commonly used mammalian hosts for industrial production of recombinant protein therapeutics.
They clone the DNA of ocrelizumab into the DNA of the CHO cells and grow it in big fermenting vats and the ocrelizumab gets secreted from the CHO cells. This is then purified and and bottled for human use. So whilst it is made in a hamster cell, no animal had to be used in the production of the antibody, as long as the cells are grown in serum-free-medium.
Hope that answers the question
Thanks for breaking the name down! I’ve always wondered whether people just sat there and thought up really hard to pronounce names or whether there was actually some method behind it….!?
The companies probably pay someone to come up with the Ocre and the Nata and then the companies have to pay the World Health Organisation $20,000 to register the name, we should have done one of our drug. I came up with Selkalner (kalner means the drug was a Big conductance potassium channel opener and Sel was Prof Selwood who designed it, but at $20,000 it stayed a VSN16 the sixteenth drug that Cristina Visintin made.
These are called STENS. I did a post on this a while ago
https://multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2015/07/education-naming-drugs/
Alem (name) tu(anti cancer)zu(humanized)mab (monoclonal antibody)
Ofa (name) tu (anti-cancer) mu (human) mab(monoclonal antibody
Nata (name) li (anti-immune) zu (humanized) mab (monoclonal antibody)
Ri (name) tu (anti-cancer) xi (chimeric) mab (monoclonal antibody)
Sel was Prof Selwood who designed it, but at $20,000 it stayed a VSN16 the sixteenth drug that Cristina Visintin made.
But you and mouse 2 are also the inventors
Right?
6 patent aplications
Dont be shy
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https://patents.justia.com/inventor/cristina-visintin
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Yep inventors but why waste 20,000 on a name.Thought 2 was selbakalner but we are too modest to put our names.forward
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Thanks for explaining this so a novice can understand, it’s very interesting! Currently reading while hooked up to my second non-hamster juice ;D
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Some of the newer generation mabs are being cloned from human antibody libraries. The fact that they come from humans may make them worse than their predecessors; that is for vegans. I could be considered a form of cannibalism 😉
The companies probably pay someone to come up with the Ocre and the Nata and then the companies have to pay the World Health Organisation $20,000 to register the name, we should have done one of our drug. I came up with Selkalner (kalner means the drug was a Big conductance potassium channel opener and Sel was Prof Selwood who designed it, but at $20,000 it stayed a VSN16 the sixteenth drug that Cristina Visintin made.
These are called STENS. I did a post on this a while ago
https://multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2015/07/education-naming-drugs/
Alem (name) tu(anti cancer)zu(humanized)mab (monoclonal antibody)
Ofa (name) tu (anti-cancer) mu (human) mab(monoclonal antibody
Nata (name) li (anti-immune) zu (humanized) mab (monoclonal antibody)
Ri (name) tu (anti-cancer) xi (chimeric) mab (monoclonal antibody)
However some of the human antibodies actually came from mice, who had human antibody genes
The companies probably pay someone to come up with the Ocre and the Nata and then the companies have to pay the World Health Organisation $20,000 to register the name, we should have done one of our drug. I came up with Selkalner (kalner means the drug was a Big conductance potassium channel opener and Sel was Prof Selwood who designed it, but at $20,000 it stayed a VSN16 the sixteenth drug that Cristina Visintin made.
These are called STENS. I did a post on this a while ago
https://multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2015/07/education-naming-drugs/
Alem (name) tu(anti cancer)zu(humanized)mab (monoclonal antibody)
Ofa (name) tu (anti-cancer) mu (human) mab(monoclonal antibody
Nata (name) li (anti-immune) zu (humanized) mab (monoclonal antibody)
Ri (name) tu (anti-cancer) xi (chimeric) mab (monoclonal antibody)
So basically monoclonal antibodies are not vegan really as hamster cells were used to start the cell line?