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Vol 51(2017) N 6 p. 782-787; DOI 10.1134/S0026893317060103 A.A. Lushova1, M.G. Biazrova1, A.G. Prilipov2, G.K. Sadykova2, T.A. Kopylov3, A.V. Filatov1* Next-Generation Techniques for Discovering Human Monoclonal Antibodies 1Institute of Immunology, Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, 115478 Russia2Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 123098 Russia 3Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, 119121 Russia *avfilat@yandex.ru Received - 2017-04-15; Accepted - 2017-05-12 Monoclonal antibodies have found wide applications in the treatment of cancer, as well as of autoimmune, infectious, and other diseases. Several dozen new antibodies are currently undergoing different stages of clinical trials, and some of them will soon be added to the list of immunotherapeutic drugs. Most of these antibodies have been generated using hybridoma technology or a phage display. In recent years, new methods of obtaining human monoclonal antibodies have been actively developing. These methods rely on sequencing immunoglobulin genes from B lymphocytes, as well as on the creation of antibody-secreting stable B-cell lines. The term next-generation antibody-discovery platforms has already been established in the literature to refer to these approaches. Our review focuses on describing the results obtained by these methods. human monoclonal antibodies, next-generation sequencing, B-cell immortalization, immunoglobulins |