Recombinant Antibody Production Core

Antibodies are commonly used reagents in research, diagnostics and therapeutics and are indispensable tools for biomedical research and clinical applications. Antibodies allow researchers to identify, purify and track molecular targets. However, there is a paucity of consistently reliable, molecularly characterized, replenishable antibodies available to researchers.

Current antibody production methodologies are not only slow, expensive, and low-throughput, they also generate antibodies that may not be useful for their intended purpose, or that change over time. Further, many commercially available antibodies are molecularly ill-defined and/or of poor quality which wastes resources and contributes to the so-called “reproducibility crisis” in biomedical research.

To help combat this crisis, scientific leaders have called for researchers to use DNA sequence-defined antibodies produced via recombinant methods; however, cost-effective, custom recombinant antibody production is not readily available. Therefore, the Recombinant Antibody Production Core (RAPC) has developed a methodology to make custom, sequence-defined, recombinant antibodies, in a fast, inexpensive, and high-throughput manner.

The Recombinant Antibody Production Core (RAPC) is supported by a Core Facility Grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (RP190507). Users of the core must cite this grant in publications using reagents generated by RAPC.