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ArticleNature communications2023

Automated optimisation of solubility and conformational stability of antibodies and proteins.

Angelo Rosace, Anja Bennett, Marc Oeller, Mie M Mortensen, Laila Sakhnini, Nikolai Lorenzen, Christian Poulsen, Pietro Sormanni

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
13.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Angelo Rosace *Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield road, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, UK.
Anja Bennett *Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield road, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1219-5488
Marc OellerCentre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield road, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0597-5950
Mie M MortensenDepartment of Purification Technologies, Global Research Technologies, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, 2760, Måløv, Denmark.
Laila SakhniniCentre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield road, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, UK.
Nikolai LorenzenDepartment of Biophysics and Injectable Formulation 2, Global Research Technologies, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Christian PoulsenDepartment of Mammalian Expression, Global Research Technologies, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, 2760, Måløv, Denmark.
Pietro SormanniCentre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield road, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, UK. ps589@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6228-2221
Novo Nordisk (Denmark) · DKUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversitat Pompeu Fabra · ESUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biologics, such as antibodies and enzymes, are crucial in research, biotechnology, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Often, biologics with suitable functionality are discovered, but their development is impeded by developability issues. Stability and solubility are key biophysical traits underpinning developability potential, as they determine aggregation, correlate with production yield and poly-specificity, and are essential to access parenteral and oral delivery. While advances for the optimisation of individual traits have been made, the co-optimization of multiple traits remains highly problematic and time-consuming, as mutations that improve one property often negatively impact others. In this work, we introduce a fully automated computational strategy for the simultaneous optimisation of conformational stability and solubility, which we experimentally validate on six antibodies, including two approved therapeutics. Our results on 42 designs demonstrate that the computational procedure is highly effective at improving developability potential, while not affecting antigen-binding. We make the method available as a webserver at www-cohsoftware.ch.cam.ac.uk.

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AntibodiesProteinsMolecular ConformationSolubilityAntibodiesProteins

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PMID37024501
PMCPMC10079162
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