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ArticleScience advances2021

Rational antibody design for undruggable targets using kinetically controlled biomolecular probes.

Carolina L Trkulja, Oscar Jungholm, Max Davidson, Kent Jardemark, Monica M Marcus, Jessica Hägglund, Anders Karlsson, Roger Karlsson, Joseph Bruton, Niklas Ivarsson and 11 more

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Article in Science advances, 2021. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Pathology of pain and its implications for therapeutic interventions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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  6. Recent Progress in Antibody Epitope Prediction.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Carolina L TrkuljaOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2843-800X
Oscar JungholmDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0992-6101
Max DavidsonOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Kent JardemarkDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Monica M MarcusDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Jessica HägglundOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2759-473X
Anders KarlssonOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Roger KarlssonOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5919-2639
Joseph BrutonDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6985-099X
Niklas IvarssonDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Sreesha P SrinivasaOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1965-9692
Alexandra CavallinDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Peder SvenssonIntegrative Research Laboratories, SE-41346, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4233-5816
Gavin D M JeffriesFluicell AB, SE-431 37 Mölndal, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5533-169X
Maria-Nefeli ChristakopoulouDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Anna ReymerOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8458-7918
Anaswara AshokOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gabriella WillmanOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Daniela PapadiaOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Emma JohnssonOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4144-425X
Owe OrwarOblique Therapeutics AB, SE-41346 Gothenburg, Sweden. owe.orwar@ki.se.ORCID 0000-0001-6818-7033

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several important drug targets, e.g., ion channels and G protein-coupled receptors, are extremely difficult to approach with current antibody technologies. To address these targets classes, we explored kinetically controlled proteases as structural dynamics-sensitive druggability probes in native-state and disease-relevant proteins. By using low-Reynolds number flows, such that a single or a few protease incisions are made, we could identify antibody binding sites (epitopes) that were translated into short-sequence antigens for antibody production. We obtained molecular-level information of the epitope-paratope region and could produce high-affinity antibodies with programmed pharmacological function against difficult-to-drug targets. We demonstrate the first stimulus-selective monoclonal antibodies targeting the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel, a clinically validated pain target widely considered undruggable with antibodies, and apoptosis-inducing antibodies selectively mediating cytotoxicity in KRAS-mutated cells. It is our hope that this platform will widen the scope of antibody therapeutics for the benefit of patients.

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Antibodies, MonoclonalAntigensBinding Sites, AntibodyEpitopesHumansAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigensEpitopes

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PMID33863724
PMCPMC8051879

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