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ArticleScientific reports2018

Application of Assisted Design of Antibody and Protein Therapeutics (ADAPT) improves efficacy of a Clostridium difficile toxin A single-domain antibody.

Traian Sulea, Greg Hussack, Shannon Ryan, Jamshid Tanha, Enrico O Purisima

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Antibody Affinity Maturation by Computational Design.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  7. Immunization Strategies Against Clostridioides difficile.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  9. Design of nanobody-based bispecific constructs byComputational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
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  12. Optimizing Antibody-Antigen Binding Affinities with the ADAPT Platform.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  16. Progress toward improved understanding of antibody maturation.Current opinion in structural biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Traian SuleaHuman Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 6100 Royalmount Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H4P 2R2, Canada.
Greg HussackHuman Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada.
Shannon RyanHuman Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada.
Jamshid TanhaHuman Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada.
Enrico O PurisimaHuman Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 6100 Royalmount Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H4P 2R2, Canada. enrico.purisima@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assisted Design of Antibody and Protein Therapeutics (ADAPT) is an affinity maturation platform interleaving predictions and testing that was previously validated on monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). This study expands the applicability of ADAPT to single-domain antibodies (sdAbs), a promising class of recombinant antibody-based biologics. As a test case, we used the camelid sdAb A26.8, a V

Indexed as

Drug DesignAnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingBacterial ToxinsBiological ProductsCell SurvivalChlorocebus aethiopsEnterotoxinsImmunologic FactorsInhibitory Concentration 50Protein BindingRecombinant ProteinsSingle-Domain AntibodiesVero CellsAntibodies, NeutralizingBacterial ToxinsBiological ProductsEnterotoxinsImmunologic FactorsRecombinant ProteinsSingle-Domain AntibodiestcdA protein, Clostridium difficile

Identifiers

PMID29396522
PMCPMC5797146

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