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ArticleScientific reports2020

Stability enhancement in a mAb and Fab coformulation.

Hongyu Zhang, Paul A Dalby

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hongyu ZhangDepartment of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Paul A DalbyDepartment of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. p.dalby@ucl.ac.uk.
University College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple therapeutic proteins can be combined into a single dose for synergistic targeting to multiple sites of action. Such proteins would be mixed in dose-specific ratios to provide the correct potency for each component, and yet the formulations must also preserve their activity and keep degradation to a minimum. Mixing different therapeutic proteins could adversely affect their stability, and reduce the shelf life of each individual component, making the control of such products very challenging. In this study, a therapeutic monoclonal antibody and a related Fab fragment, were combined to investigate the impact of coformulation on their degradation kinetics. Under mildly destabilizing conditions, these proteins were found to protect each other from degradation. The protective effect appeared to originate from the interaction of Fab and IgG1 in small soluble oligomers, or through the rapid coalescence of pre-existing monomeric IgG1 nuclei into a dead-end aggregate, rather than through macromolecular crowding or diffusion-limitations.

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Antibodies, MonoclonalHumansImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsKineticsAntibodies, MonoclonalImmunoglobulin Fab Fragments

Identifiers

PMID33273491
PMCPMC7713237
OpenAlexW3109500119

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