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ArticleJournal of pharmaceutical sciences2019

Evaluating the Effects of Hinge Flexibility on the Solution Structure of Antibodies at Concentrated Conditions.

Marco A Blanco, Harold W Hatch, Joseph E Curtis, Vincent K Shen

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Article in Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. 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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4 authors.

Marco A BlancoChemical Sciences Division, Chemical Informatics Group, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland 20850. Electronic address: mblanco@udel.edu.
Harold W HatchChemical Sciences Division, Chemical Informatics Group, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.
Joseph E CurtisNIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.
Vincent K ShenChemical Sciences Division, Chemical Informatics Group, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Employing 2 different coarse-grained models, we evaluated the effect of intramolecular domain-domain distances and hinge flexibility on the general solution structure of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), within the context of protein-protein steric repulsion. These models explicitly account for the hinge region, and represent antibodies at either domain or subdomain levels (i.e., 4-bead and 7-bead representations, respectively). Additionally, different levels of mAb flexibility are also considered. When evaluating mAbs as rigid structures, analysis of small-angle scattering profiles showed that changes in the relative internal distances between Fc and Fab domains significantly alter the local arrangement of neighboring molecules, as well as the molecular packing of the concentrated mAb solutions. Likewise, enabling hinge flexibility in either of the mAb models led to qualitatively similar results, where flexibility increases the spatial molecular arrangement at elevated concentrations. This occurs because fluctuations in mAb quaternary structure are modulated by the close proximity between molecules at elevated concentrations (>50 mg mL

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Antibodies, MonoclonalScattering, Small AngleSolutionsAntibodies, MonoclonalSolutionsantibodiescoarse-grained modelhigh concentrationhinge flexibilitymolecular simulationprotein stabilitysmall-angle scattering

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PMID30593783
PMCPMC7288351

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