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ArticlePharmaceutics2019

Fab-Arm Exchange Combined with Selective Protein A Purification Results in a Platform for Rapid Preparation of Monovalent Bispecific Antibodies Directly from Culture Media.

James Steinhardt, Yanli Wu, Ryan Fleming, Ben T Ruddle, Pooja Patel, Herren Wu, Changshou Gao, Nazzareno Dimasi

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

James SteinhardtAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Yanli WuAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Ryan FlemingAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Ben T RuddleAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Pooja PatelAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Herren WuAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Changshou GaoAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.
Nazzareno DimasiAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD 201878, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9379-1646
AstraZeneca (United States) · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bispecific antibody (bsAb) applications have exponentially expanded with the advent of molecular engineering strategies that have addressed many of the initial challenges, including improper light chain pairing, heterodimer purity, aggregation, and pharmacokinetics. However, the lack of high-throughput methods for the generation of monovalent bsAbs has resulted in a bottleneck that has hampered their therapeutic evaluation, as current technologies can be cost-prohibitive and impractical. To address this issue, we incorporated single-matched point mutations in the CH3 domain to recapitulate the physiological process of human IgG4 Fab-arm exchange to generate monovalent bsAbs. Furthermore, we utilized the substitutions H435R and Y436F in the CH3 domain of IgG1, which incorporates residues from human IgG3, thus ablating protein A binding. By exploiting this combination of mutations and optimizing the reduction and reoxidation conditions for Fab arm exchange, highly pure monovalent bsAbs can be rapidly purified directly from combined culture media using standard protein A purification. This methodology, reported herein for the first time, allows for the high-throughput generation of monovalent bsAbs, thus increasing the capacity for evaluating monovalent bsAb iterations for therapeutic potential.

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Fab-arm exchangehigh-throughput bispecific generationmonovalent bispecific antibodiesprotein A binding

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PMID31861347
PMCPMC7022642
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