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ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2022

Engineering the supernatural: monoclonal antibodies for challenging infectious diseases.

Patricia S Grace, Bronwyn M Gunn, Lenette L Lu

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Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. EPY001, a Novel Monoclonal Antibody AgainstInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Antigen specificity shapes antibody functions in tuberculosis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patricia S GraceHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA, United States.
Bronwyn M GunnPaul G. Allen School of Global Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States.
Lenette L LuDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States; Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States; Parkland Health & Hospital System, United States. Electronic address: lenette.lu@utsouthwestern.edu.
Washington State University · US

Funding

Prometheus: A Platform for Rapid Development of Human Antibody-based Therapeutics and Prophylactics against Emerging Viral ThreatsU19AI142777 · NIAID · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI CHANDRAN, KARTIK · 2019 to 2023
$21.9M
Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Centers Coordination Center (EIDRC CC)U01AI151378 · NIAID · RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE · PI Gregory D Sempowski · 2020 to 2026
$14.7M
Tulane University COVID Antibody and Immunity Network (TUCAIN) SupplementU54CA260581 · NCI · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI ROBINSON, JAMES E · 2020 to 2024
$9.2M
Defining the antibody interface between Mycobacterium tuberculosis and host immunityR01AI158858 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LU, LENETTE · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA260581NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI158858NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI151378NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI142777
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies can be deployed faster than antimicrobials and vaccines. However, the majority of mAbs treat cancer and autoimmune diseases, whereas a minority treat infection. This is in part because targeting a single antigen by the antibody Fab domain is insufficient to stop the dynamic microbial life cycle. Thus, finding the 'right' antigens remains the focus of intense investigations. Equally important is the antibody-Fc domain that has the capacity to induce immune responses that enhance neutralization, and limit pathology and transmission. While Fc-effector functions have been less deeply studied, conceptual and technical advances reveal previously underappreciated antibody potential to combat diseases from microbes difficult to address with current diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines, including S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, P. falciparum, and M. tuberculosis. What is learned about engineering antibodies for these challenging organisms will enhance our approach to new and emerging infectious diseases.

Indexed as

Communicable DiseasesCOVID-19Antibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingAntigensHumansPandemicsStaphylococcus aureusAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingAntigens

Identifiers

PMID36242952
PMCPMC9612313
OpenAlexW4304701322

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