Assessing developability early in the discovery process for novel biologics

ML Fernández-Quintero, A Ljungars, F Waibl, V Greiff… - MAbs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Beyond potency, a good developability profile is a key attribute of a biological drug.
Selecting and screening for such attributes early in the drug development process can save …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies target a haemagglutinin anchor epitope

JJ Guthmiller, J Han, HA Utset, L Li, LYL Lan, C Henry… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Broadly neutralizing antibodies that target epitopes of haemagglutinin on the influenza virus
have the potential to provide near universal protection against influenza virus infection …

Ensembles in solution as a new paradigm for antibody structure prediction and design

ML Fernández-Quintero, G Georges, JM Varga… - MAbs, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The rise of antibodies as a promising and rapidly growing class of biotherapeutic proteins
has motivated numerous studies to characterize and understand antibody structures. In the …

Challenges in antibody structure prediction

ML Fernández-Quintero, J Kokot, F Waibl, ALM Fischer… - MAbs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in structural biology and the exponential increase in the amount of high-quality
experimental structural data available in the Protein Data Bank has motivated numerous …

Specific attributes of the VL domain influence both the structure and structural variability of CDR-H3 through steric effects

B Guloglu, CM Deane - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Antibodies, through their ability to target virtually any epitope, play a key role in driving the
adaptive immune response in jawed vertebrates. The binding domains of standard …

Mutation of framework residue H71 results in different antibody paratope states in solution

ML Fernández-Quintero, KB Kroell, F Hofer… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Characterizing and understanding the antibody binding interface have become a pre-
requisite for rational antibody design and engineering. The antigen-binding site is formed by …

One billion synthetic 3D-antibody-antigen complexes enable unconstrained machine-learning formalized investigation of antibody specificity prediction

PA Robert, R Akbar, R Frank, M Pavlović, M Widrich… - BioRXiV, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Machine learning (ML) is a key technology to enable accurate prediction of
antibody-antigen binding, a prerequisite for in silico vaccine and antibody design. Two …

The influence of antibody humanization on shark variable domain (VNAR) binding site ensembles

ML Fernández-Quintero, ALM Fischer, J Kokot… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sharks and other cartilaginous fish produce new antigen receptor (IgNAR) antibodies, as
key part of their humoral immune response and are the phylogenetically oldest living …

Phage display assisted discovery of a pH‐dependent anti‐α‐cobratoxin antibody from a natural variable domain library

T Tulika, RW Pedersen, C Rimbault, S Ahmadi… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recycling IgG antibodies bind to their target antigen at physiological pH in the blood stream
and release them upon endocytosis when pH levels drop, allowing the IgG antibodies to be …

Germline-Dependent Antibody Paratope States and Pairing Specific VH-VL Interface Dynamics

ML Fernández-Quintero, KB Kroell, LM Bacher… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antibodies have emerged as one of the fastest growing classes of biotherapeutic proteins.
To improve the rational design of antibodies, we investigate the conformational diversity of …