Antibody specific epitope prediction—emergence of a new paradigm

I Sela-Culang, Y Ofran, B Peters - Current opinion in virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Antibody-independent epitope prediction methods have a poor
performance.•Methods predicting an epitope for a certain antibody were recently …

Modeling and docking of antibody structures with Rosetta

BD Weitzner, JR Jeliazkov, S Lyskov, N Marze… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
We describe Rosetta-based computational protocols for predicting the 3D structure of an
antibody from sequence (RosettaAntibody) and then docking the antibody to protein …

Assessing human B cell repertoire diversity and convergence

K Imkeller, H Wardemann - Immunological reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A hallmark of the adaptive immune system is the specificity of B cell and T cell responses.
Mechanistically, this feature relies on the fact that the two genes that encode B cell and T cell …

ABodyBuilder: Automated antibody structure prediction with data–driven accuracy estimation

J Leem, J Dunbar, G Georges, J Shi, CM Deane - MAbs, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Computational modeling of antibody structures plays a critical role in therapeutic antibody
design. Several antibody modeling pipelines exist, but no freely available methods currently …

Antibody specific B-cell epitope predictions: leveraging information from antibody-antigen protein complexes

MC Jespersen, S Mahajan, B Peters… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
B-cells can neutralize pathogenic molecules by targeting them with extreme specificity using
receptors secreted or expressed on their surface (antibodies). This is achieved via molecular …

LYRA, a webserver for lymphocyte receptor structural modeling

MS Klausen, MV Anderson, MC Jespersen… - Nucleic Acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The accurate structural modeling of B-and T-cell receptors is fundamental to gain a detailed
insight in the mechanisms underlying immunity and in developing new drugs and therapies …

Charge and hydrophobicity are key features in sequence-trained machine learning models for predicting the biophysical properties of clinical-stage antibodies

M Hebditch, J Warwicker - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Improved understanding of properties that mediate protein solubility and resistance to
aggregation are important for developing biopharmaceuticals, and more generally in …

VH-VL orientation prediction for antibody humanization candidate selection: A case study

A Bujotzek, F Lipsmeier, SF Harris, J Benz… - MAbs, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
abstract Antibody humanization describes the procedure of grafting a non-human antibody's
complementarity-determining regions, ie, the variable loop regions that mediate specific …

Synthetic antibodies inhibit Bcl-2-associated X protein (BAX) through blockade of the N-terminal activation site

O Uchime, Z Dai, N Biris, D Lee, SS Sidhu, S Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
The BCL-2 protein family plays a critical role in regulating cellular commitment to
mitochondrial apoptosis. Pro-apoptotic Bcl-2-associated X protein (BAX) is an executioner …

[HTML][HTML] Promiscuous antibodies characterised by their physico-chemical properties: From sequence to structure and back

JMJ Laffy, T Dodev, JA Macpherson… - Progress in biophysics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Human B cells produce antibodies, which bind to their cognate antigen based on distinct
molecular properties of the antibody CDR loop. We have analysed a set of 10 antibodies …