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Deep mutational scanning of an antibody against epidermal growth factor receptor using mammalian cell display and massively parallel pyrosequencing.

Charles M Forsyth, Veronica Juan, Yoshiko Akamatsu, Robert B DuBridge, Minhtam Doan, Alexander V Ivanov, Zhiyuan Ma, Dixie Polakoff, Jennifer Razo, Keith Wilson and 1 more

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Article in mAbs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Charles M ForsythAbbVie Biotherapeutics Corporation, Redwood City, CA USA.
Veronica Juan
Yoshiko Akamatsu
Robert B DuBridge
Minhtam Doan
Alexander V Ivanov
Zhiyuan Ma
Dixie Polakoff
Jennifer Razo
Keith Wilson
David B Powers
AbbVie (United States) · USMassachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We developed a method for deep mutational scanning of antibody complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) that can determine in parallel the effect of every possible single amino acid CDR substitution on antigen binding. The method uses libraries of full length IgGs containing more than 1000 CDR point mutations displayed on mammalian cells, sorted by flow cytometry into subpopulations based on antigen affinity and analyzed by massively parallel pyrosequencing. Higher, lower and neutral affinity mutations are identified by their enrichment or depletion in the FACS subpopulations. We applied this method to a humanized version of the anti-epidermal growth factor receptor antibody cetuximab, generated a near comprehensive data set for 1060 point mutations that recapitulates previously determined structural and mutational data for these CDRs and identified 67 point mutations that increase affinity. The large-scale, comprehensive sequence-function data sets generated by this method should have broad utility for engineering properties such as antibody affinity and specificity and may advance theoretical understanding of antibody-antigen recognition.

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Amino Acid SubstitutionAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAntineoplastic AgentsComplementarity Determining RegionsMutation, MissenseCetuximabErbB ReceptorsHEK293 CellsHumansAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAntineoplastic AgentsCetuximabComplementarity Determining RegionsEGFR protein, humanErbB Receptorsantibody engineeringcetuximabEGFRmammalian displaynext generation sequencing

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PMID23765106
PMCPMC3906306
OpenAlexW1992926767

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