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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Intrinsic physicochemical profile of marketed antibody-based biotherapeutics.

Lucky Ahmed, Priyanka Gupta, Kyle P Martin, Justin M Scheer, Andrew E Nixon, Sandeep Kumar

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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6 authors.

Lucky AhmedBiotherapeutics Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT 06877.ORCID 0000-0002-4205-9954
Priyanka GuptaBiotherapeutics Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT 06877.ORCID 0000-0001-6483-3069
Kyle P MartinBiotherapeutics Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT 06877.ORCID 0000-0001-6946-4813
Justin M ScheerBiotherapeutics Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT 06877.
Andrew E NixonBiotherapeutics Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT 06877.ORCID 0000-0002-6090-0583
Sandeep KumarBiotherapeutics Discovery, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT 06877 Sandeep_2.Kumar@Boehringer-Ingelheim.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2840-6398

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Feeding biopharma pipelines with biotherapeutic candidates that possess desirable developability profiles can help improve the productivity of biologic drug discovery and development. Here, we have derived an in silico profile by analyzing computed physicochemical descriptors for the variable regions (Fv) found in 77 marketed antibody-based biotherapeutics. Fv regions of these biotherapeutics demonstrate significant diversities in their germlines, complementarity determining region loop lengths, hydrophobicity, and charge distributions. Furthermore, an analysis of 24 physicochemical descriptors, calculated using homology-based molecular models, has yielded five nonredundant descriptors whose distributions represent stability, isoelectric point, and molecular surface characteristics of their Fv regions. Fv regions of candidates from our internal discovery campaigns, human next-generation sequencing repertoires, and those in clinical-stages (CST) were assessed for similarity with the physicochemical profile derived here. The Fv regions in 33% of CST antibodies show physicochemical properties that are dissimilar to currently marketed biotherapeutics. In comparison, physicochemical characteristics of ∼29% of the Fv regions in human antibodies and ∼27% of our internal hits deviated significantly from those of marketed biotherapeutics. The early availability of this information can help guide hit selection, lead identification, and optimization of biotherapeutic candidates. Insights from this work can also help support portfolio risk assessment, in-licensing, and biopharma collaborations.

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Drug DesignDrug DiscoveryAntibodies, MonoclonalComplementarity Determining RegionsComputer SimulationHumansHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsModels, MolecularProtein EngineeringProtein StabilityAntibodies, MonoclonalComplementarity Determining Regionsantibodybiologicscomputationdevelopabilitydrug discovery

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PMID34504010
PMCPMC8449350

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