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ReviewBioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy2010

Glycosylation of therapeutic proteins: an effective strategy to optimize efficacy.

Ricardo J Solá, Kai Griebenow

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Review in BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 174 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
174citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

174 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 445 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ricardo J SoláLaboratory for Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346, USA. rsola@bluebottle.com
Kai Griebenow
University of Puerto Rico System · PR

Funding

Chemical Protein GlycosylationSC1GM086240 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS · PI GRIEBENOW, KAI H · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM086240NIGMS NIH HHS SC1 GM086240
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During their development and administration, protein-based drugs routinely display suboptimal therapeutic efficacies due to their poor physicochemical and pharmacological properties. These innate liabilities have driven the development of molecular strategies to improve the therapeutic behavior of protein drugs. Among the currently developed approaches, glycoengineering is one of the most promising, because it has been shown to simultaneously afford improvements in most of the parameters necessary for optimization of in vivo efficacy while allowing for targeting to the desired site of action. These include increased in vitro and in vivo molecular stability (due to reduced oxidation, cross-linking, pH-, chemical-, heating-, and freezing-induced unfolding/denaturation, precipitation, kinetic inactivation, and aggregation), as well as modulated pharmacodynamic responses (due to altered potencies from diminished in vitro enzymatic activities and altered receptor binding affinities) and improved pharmacokinetic profiles (due to altered absorption and distribution behaviors, longer circulation lifetimes, and decreased clearance rates). This article provides an account of the effects that glycosylation has on the therapeutic efficacy of protein drugs and describes the current understanding of the mechanisms by which glycosylation leads to such effects.

Indexed as

GlycosylationAnimalsDrug Delivery SystemsHumansProtein EngineeringProteinsProteins

Identifiers

PMID20055529
PMCPMC2805475
OpenAlexW2027894892

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