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Versatile and rapid microfluidics-assisted antibody discovery.

Ramona Gaa, Emmanuel Menang-Ndi, Shruti Pratapa, Christine Nguyen, Satyendra Kumar, Achim Doerner

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Article in mAbs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ramona GaaProtein Engineering and Antibody Technologies, Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
Emmanuel Menang-NdiInstitute for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria.
Shruti PratapaProtein Engineering and Antibody Technologies, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, USA.
Christine NguyenProtein Engineering and Antibody Technologies, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, USA.
Satyendra KumarProtein Engineering and Antibody Technologies, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, USA.
Achim DoernerProtein Engineering and Antibody Technologies, Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
Merck (Germany) · DEInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent years have seen unparalleled development of microfluidic applications for antibody discovery in both academic and pharmaceutical research. Microfluidics can support native chain-paired library generation as well as direct screening of antibody secreting cells obtained by rodent immunization or from the human peripheral blood. While broad diversities of neutralizing antibodies against infectious diseases such as HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 have been identified from convalescent individuals, microfluidics can expedite therapeutic antibody discovery for cancer or immunological disease indications. In this study, a commercially available microfluidic device, Cyto-Mine, was used for the rapid identification of natively paired antibodies from rodents or human donors screened for specific binding to recombinant antigens, for direct screening with cells expressing the target of interest, and, to our knowledge for the first time, for direct broad functional IgG antibody screening in droplets. The process time from cell preparation to confirmed recombinant antibodies was four weeks. Application of this or similar microfluidic devices and methodologies can accelerate and enhance pharmaceutical antibody hit discovery.

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AnimalsAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralAntibody SpecificityAntigensAntigens, NeoplasmBlood PreservationCOVID-19Fluorescence Resonance Energy TransferHumansHybridomasImmunoglobulin GImmunomagnetic SeparationLab-On-A-Chip DevicesAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralAntigensAntigens, NeoplasmImmunoglobulin GMuromonab-CD3Recombinant ProteinsTetanus ToxoidantibodiesASCsCyto-Minefunctional screeningMicrofluidics

Identifiers

PMID34586015
PMCPMC8489958
OpenAlexW3201791628

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