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ArticleScientific reports2018

In vivo depletion of serum IgG by an affibody molecule binding the neonatal Fc receptor.

Johan Seijsing, Shengze Yu, Fredrik Y Frejd, Ingmarie Höiden-Guthenberg, Torbjörn Gräslund

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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 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Endothelial cells sialylate IgG within the FcRn-mediated recycling pathway.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Targeting the Neonatal Fc Receptor in Autoimmune Diseases: Pipeline and Progress.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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  15. Neonatal Fc Receptor-Targeted Therapies in Neurology.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2022
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  18. In Translation: FcRn across the Therapeutic Spectrum.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Johan SeijsingSchool of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 11417, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5157-8764
Shengze YuSchool of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 11417, Stockholm, Sweden.
Fredrik Y FrejdAffibody AB, Gunnar Asplunds allé 24, 171 63, Solna, Sweden.
Ingmarie Höiden-GuthenbergAffibody AB, Gunnar Asplunds allé 24, 171 63, Solna, Sweden.
Torbjörn GräslundSchool of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 11417, Stockholm, Sweden. torbjorn@kth.se.ORCID 0000-0002-5391-600X
Affibody (Sweden) · SEKTH Royal Institute of Technology · SEStockholm University · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lowering the total level of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) in circulation is a promising general treatment option for many autoimmune diseases driven by pathogenic autoantibodies. The half-life of IgG in circulation is unusually long as a consequence of its interaction with the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn), which protects it from lysosomal degradation by cells in contact with blood. Blocking the IgG/FcRn interaction prevents FcRn-mediated rescue, which may lead to increased catabolism and a lowering of the total IgG level. Here, we find that an engineered alternative scaffold protein, an affibody molecule, interacting specifically with FcRn, is able to block the IgG/FcRn interaction in vitro. The affibody molecule (Z

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Autoimmune DiseasesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IReceptors, FcRecombinant Fusion ProteinsAnimalsHeLa CellsHumansImmunoglobulin GMiceFc receptor, neonatalHistocompatibility Antigens Class IImmunoglobulin GReceptors, FcRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID29572538
PMCPMC5865129
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