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In silico proof of principle of machine learning-based antibody design at unconstrained scale.

Rahmad Akbar, Philippe A Robert, Cédric R Weber, Michael Widrich, Robert Frank, Milena Pavlović, Lonneke Scheffer, Maria Chernigovskaya, Igor Snapkov, Andrei Slabodkin and 9 more

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3 · Its place in the literature

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42 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Rahmad AkbarDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-6692-0876
Philippe A RobertDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1345-5015
Cédric R WeberDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4802-8996
Michael WidrichEllis Unit Linz and Lit Ai Lab, Institute for Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5721-0135
Robert FrankDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-9097-7963
Milena PavlovićDepartment of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-2484-3868
Lonneke SchefferDepartment of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-8900-075X
Maria ChernigovskayaDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-1507-4171
Igor SnapkovDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-5341-685X
Andrei SlabodkinDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-9320-1666
Brij Bhushan MehtaDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-8501-7076
Enkelejda MihoInstitute of Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics, School of Life Sciences, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6461-0519
Fridtjof Lund-JohansenDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-2445-1258
Jan Terje AndersenDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1710-1628
Sepp HochreiterEllis Unit Linz and Lit Ai Lab, Institute for Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7449-2528
Ingrid Hobæk HaffDepartment of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Günter KlambauerEllis Unit Linz and Lit Ai Lab, Institute for Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-2861-5552
Geir Kjetil SandveDepartment of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-4959-1409
Victor GreiffDepartment of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-2622-5032

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generative machine learning (ML) has been postulated to become a major driver in the computational design of antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb). However, efforts to confirm this hypothesis have been hindered by the infeasibility of testing arbitrarily large numbers of antibody sequences for their most critical design parameters: paratope, epitope, affinity, and developability. To address this challenge, we leveraged a lattice-based antibody-antigen binding simulation framework, which incorporates a wide range of physiological antibody-binding parameters. The simulation framework enables the computation of synthetic antibody-antigen 3D-structures, and it functions as an oracle for unrestricted prospective evaluation and benchmarking of antibody design parameters of ML-generated antibody sequences. We found that a deep generative model, trained exclusively on antibody sequence (one dimensional: 1D) data can be used to design conformational (three dimensional: 3D) epitope-specific antibodies, matching, or exceeding the training dataset in affinity and developability parameter value variety. Furthermore, we established a lower threshold of sequence diversity necessary for high-accuracy generative antibody ML and demonstrated that this lower threshold also holds on experimental real-world data. Finally, we show that transfer learning enables the generation of high-affinity antibody sequences from low-N training data. Our work establishes a priori feasibility and the theoretical foundation of high-throughput ML-based mAb design.

Indexed as

Antigen-Antibody ReactionsMachine LearningAntibodies, MonoclonalBinding Sites, AntibodyEpitopesAntibodies, MonoclonalEpitopesantibody designepitopeGenerative machine learningparatope

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PMID35377271
PMCPMC8986205

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