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Drug-like antibodies with high affinity, diversity and developability directly from next-generation antibody libraries.

Andre Azevedo Reis Teixeira, Michael Frank Erasmus, Sara D'Angelo, Leslie Naranjo, Fortunato Ferrara, Camila Leal-Lopes, Oliver Durrant, Cecile Galmiche, Aleardo Morelli, Anthony Scott-Tucker and 1 more

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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 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Andre Azevedo Reis TeixeiraNew Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8348-0235
Michael Frank ErasmusSpecifica Inc, Santa Fe, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8046-5048
Sara D'AngeloSpecifica Inc, Santa Fe, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8329-9938
Leslie NaranjoSpecifica Inc, Santa Fe, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2165-0814
Fortunato FerraraSpecifica Inc, Santa Fe, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3183-7025
Camila Leal-LopesNew Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
Oliver DurrantUCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4615-035X
Cecile GalmicheUCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4866-0484
Aleardo MorelliUCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UK.
Anthony Scott-TuckerUCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UK.
Andrew Raymon Morton BradburySpecifica Inc, Santa Fe, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5567-8172
Specifica (United States) · USUCB Pharma (United Kingdom) · GBNew Mexico Consortium · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic antibodies must have "drug-like" properties. These include high affinity and specificity for the intended target, biological activity, and additional characteristics now known as "developability properties": long-term stability and resistance to aggregation when in solution, thermodynamic stability to prevent unfolding, high expression yields to facilitate manufacturing, low self-interaction, among others. Sequence-based liabilities may affect one or more of these characteristics. Improving the stability and developability of a lead antibody is typically achieved by modifying its sequence, a time-consuming process that often results in reduced affinity. Here we present a new antibody library format that yields high-affinity binders with drug-like developability properties directly from initial selections, reducing the need for further engineering or affinity maturation. The innovative semi-synthetic design involves grafting natural complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) from human antibodies into scaffolds based on well-behaved clinical antibodies. HCDR3s were amplified directly from B cells, while the remaining CDRs, from which all sequence liabilities had been purged, were replicated from a large next-generation sequencing dataset. By combining two

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Antibodies, MonoclonalComplementarity Determining RegionsAntibody AffinityB-LymphocytesGene LibraryHumansPeptide LibraryAntibodies, MonoclonalComplementarity Determining RegionsPeptide LibraryAntibodyantibody discoveryantibody therapeuticsdevelopabilitydrug discoveryphage displayyeast display

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PMID34850665
PMCPMC8654478
OpenAlexW3214750573

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