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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2017

Effector-attenuating Substitutions That Maintain Antibody Stability and Reduce Toxicity in Mice.

Megan Lo, Hok Seon Kim, Raymond K Tong, Travis W Bainbridge, Jean-Michel Vernes, Yin Zhang, Yuwen Linda Lin, Shan Chung, Mark S Dennis, Y Joy Yu Zuchero and 7 more

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 221 papers.

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221 citing papers in PubMed, 318 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Megan LoFrom the Departments of Protein Chemistry.
Hok Seon KimAntibody Engineering.
Raymond K TongFrom the Departments of Protein Chemistry.
Travis W BainbridgeFrom the Departments of Protein Chemistry.
Jean-Michel VernesBiochemical and Cellular Pharmacology.
Yin ZhangAntibody Engineering.
Yuwen Linda LinBioAnalytical Sciences.
Shan ChungBioAnalytical Sciences.
Mark S DennisAntibody Engineering.
Y Joy Yu ZucheroNeuroscience, and.
Ryan J WattsNeuroscience, and.
Jessica A CouchNeuroscience, and.
Y Gloria MengBiochemical and Cellular Pharmacology.
Jasvinder K AtwalNeuroscience, and.
Randall J BrezskiAntibody Engineering.
Christoph SpiessAntibody Engineering, spiess.christoph@gene.com.
James A ErnstFrom the Departments of Protein Chemistry, ernst.james@gene.com.
Society for Neuroscience · USToxicologie, Pharmacologie et Signalisation Cellulaire · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The antibody Fc region regulates antibody cytotoxic activities and serum half-life. In a therapeutic context, however, the cytotoxic effector function of an antibody is often not desirable and can create safety liabilities by activating native host immune defenses against cells expressing the receptor antigens. Several amino acid changes in the Fc region have been reported to silence or reduce the effector function of antibodies. These earlier studies focused primarily on the interaction of human antibodies with human Fc-γ receptors, and it remains largely unknown how such changes to Fc might translate to the context of a murine antibody. We demonstrate that the commonly used N297G (NG) and D265A, N297G (DANG) variants that are efficacious in attenuating effector function in primates retain potent complement activation capacity in mice, leading to safety liabilities in murine studies. In contrast, we found an L234A, L235A, P329G (LALA-PG) variant that eliminates complement binding and fixation as well as Fc-γ-dependent, antibody-dependent, cell-mediated cytotoxity in both murine IgG2a and human IgG1. These LALA-PG substitutions allow a more accurate translation of results generated with an "effectorless" antibody between mice and primates. Further, we show that both human and murine antibodies containing the LALA-PG variant have typical pharmacokinetics in rodents and retain thermostability, enabling efficient knobs-into-holes bispecific antibody production and a robust path to generating highly effector-attenuated bispecific antibodies for preclinical studies.

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AnimalsAntibodies, BispecificAntibody-Dependent Cell CytotoxicityAntibody FormationComplement C1qCricetinaeCrystallography, X-RayEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayGlycosylationHumansImmunoglobulin Fc FragmentsImmunoglobulin GMiceProtein ConformationReceptors, IgGTemperatureAntibodies, BispecificComplement C1qImmunoglobulin Fc FragmentsImmunoglobulin GReceptors, IgGaglycosylationantibody-dependent, cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC)antibody engineeringbispecific antibodycomplementcomplement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC)Fc receptorFc-γ receptorprotein stabilityrecombinant protein expression

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PMID28077575
PMCPMC5339770
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