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ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2014

Protein aggregation and its impact on product quality.

Christopher J Roberts

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Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers.

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105citing papers in PubMed
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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

105 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Predicting Peptide Aggregation with Protein Language Model Embeddings.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  8. Electrostatics and viscosity are strongly linked in concentrated antibody solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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45 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

Christopher J RobertsDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. Electronic address: cjr@udel.edu.

Funding

Biotechnology Research Partnerships Renewal: Aggregation of Therapeutic ProteinsR01EB006006 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI RANDOLPH, THEODORE W · 2006 to 2017
$7.2M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB006006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein pharmaceutical products are typically active as folded monomers that are composed of one or more protein chains, such as the heavy and light chains in monoclonal antibodies that are a mainstay of current drug pipelines. There are numerous possible aggregated states for a given protein, some of which are potentially useful, while most of which are considered deleterious from the perspective of pharmaceutical product quality and performance. This review provides an overview of how and why different aggregated states of proteins occur, how this potentially impacts product quality and performance, fundamental approaches to control aggregate formation, and the practical approaches that are currently used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Indexed as

BiopharmaceuticsProtein AggregatesProtein EngineeringProtein FoldingQuality ControlRecombinant ProteinsProtein AggregatesRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID25173826
PMCPMC4266928

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