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ArticlePharmaceutics2023

Novel Human/Non-Human Primate Cross-Reactive Anti-Transferrin Receptor Nanobodies for Brain Delivery of Biologics.

Laura Rué, Tom Jaspers, Isabelle M S Degors, Sam Noppen, Dominique Schols, Bart De Strooper, Maarten Dewilde

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura RuéLaboratory for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Antibodies, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Tom JaspersLaboratory for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Antibodies, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-7485-4397
Isabelle M S DegorsVIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Sam NoppenLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Dominique ScholsLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3256-5850
Bart De StrooperVIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Maarten DewildeLaboratory for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Antibodies, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3138-281X
KU Leuven · BERega Institute for Medical Research · BEVIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research · BEUK Dementia Research Institute · GB

Funding

Alzheimer's Association AARF-22-928639Medical Research Council NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier (BBB), while being the gatekeeper of the central nervous system (CNS), is a bottleneck for the treatment of neurological diseases. Unfortunately, most of the biologicals do not reach their brain targets in sufficient quantities. The antibody targeting of receptor-mediated transcytosis (RMT) receptors is an exploited mechanism that increases brain permeability. We previously discovered an anti-human transferrin receptor (TfR) nanobody that could efficiently deliver a therapeutic moiety across the BBB. Despite the high homology between human and cynomolgus TfR, the nanobody was unable to bind the non-human primate receptor. Here we report the discovery of two nanobodies that were able to bind human and cynomolgus TfR, making these nanobodies more clinically relevant. Whereas nanobody BBB00515 bound cynomolgus TfR with 18 times more affinity than it did human TfR, nanobody BBB00533 bound human and cynomolgus TfR with similar affinities. When fused with an anti-beta-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme (BACE1) antibody (1A11AM), each of the nanobodies was able to increase its brain permeability after peripheral injection. A 40% reduction of brain Aβ

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blood-brain barriernanobodyreceptor-mediated transcytosistransferrin receptorVHH

Identifiers

PMID37376196
PMCPMC10300862
OpenAlexW4380882558

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