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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Surface patches induce nonspecific binding and phase separation of antibodies.

Hannes Ausserwöger, Georg Krainer, Timothy J Welsh, Nels Thorsteinson, Ella de Csilléry, Tomas Sneideris, Matthias M Schneider, Thomas Egebjerg, Gaetano Invernizzi, Therese W Herling and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Nonspecificity fingerprints for clinical-stage antibodies in solution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  18. High spatial-resolved heat manipulating membrane heterogeneity alters cellular migration and signaling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hannes AusserwögerYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0762-8872
Georg KrainerYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9626-7636
Timothy J WelshYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7817-5722
Nels ThorsteinsonResearch and Development, Chemical Computing Group, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2R7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8333-0045
Ella de CsilléryYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5917-9349
Tomas SneiderisYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5285-871X
Matthias M SchneiderYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1894-1859
Thomas EgebjergGlobal Research Technologies, Novo Nordisk A/S 2760 Måløv, Denmark.
Gaetano InvernizziGlobal Research Technologies, Novo Nordisk A/S 2760 Måløv, Denmark.
Therese W HerlingYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1332-3090
Nikolai LorenzenGlobal Research Technologies, Novo Nordisk A/S 2760 Måløv, Denmark.
Tuomas P J KnowlesYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
University of Cambridge · GBNovo Nordisk (Denmark) · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonspecific interactions are a key challenge in the successful development of therapeutic antibodies. The tendency for nonspecific binding of antibodies is often difficult to reduce by rational design, and instead, it is necessary to rely on comprehensive screening campaigns. To address this issue, we performed a systematic analysis of the impact of surface patch properties on antibody nonspecificity using a designer antibody library as a model system and single-stranded DNA as a nonspecificity ligand. Using an in-solution microfluidic approach, we find that the antibodies tested bind to single-stranded DNA with affinities as high as

Indexed as

Antibodies, MonoclonalDNA, Single-StrandedHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsAntibodies, MonoclonalDNA, Single-Strandedantibody developmentnanoscale clustersnonspecificityphase separationsurface patches

Identifiers

PMID37011217
PMCPMC10104583
OpenAlexW4362521811

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