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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2020

Antibody complementarity determining region design using high-capacity machine learning.

Ge Liu, Haoyang Zeng, Jonas Mueller, Brandon Carter, Ziheng Wang, Jonas Schilz, Geraldine Horny, Michael E Birnbaum, Stefan Ewert, David K Gifford

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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10 authors.

Ge LiuMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Haoyang ZengMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jonas MuellerMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Brandon CarterMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ziheng WangMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jonas SchilzNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
Geraldine HornyNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
Michael E BirnbaumDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Stefan EwertNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
David K GiffordMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

Deep learning based antibody design using high-throughput affinity testing of synthetic sequencesR01CA218094 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GIFFORD, DAVID K · 2018 to 2024
$2.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA218094
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationThe precise targeting of antibodies and other protein therapeutics is required for their proper function and the elimination of deleterious off-target effects. Often the molecular structure of a therapeutic target is unknown and randomized methods are used to design antibodies without a model that relates antibody sequence to desired properties.

resultsHere, we present Ens-Grad, a machine learning method that can design complementarity determining regions of human Immunoglobulin G antibodies with target affinities that are superior to candidates derived from phage display panning experiments. We also demonstrate that machine learning can improve target specificity by the modular composition of models from different experimental campaigns, enabling a new integrative approach to improving target specificity. Our results suggest a new path for the discovery of therapeutic molecules by demonstrating that predictive and differentiable models of antibody binding can be learned from high-throughput experimental data without the need for target structural data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Sequencing data of the phage panning experiment are deposited at NIH's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the accession number SRP158510. We make our code available at https://github.com/gifford-lab/antibody-2019. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Complementarity Determining RegionsMachine LearningAntibodiesHumansAntibodiesComplementarity Determining Regions

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PMID31778140
PMCPMC7141872

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