Immunogenicity of therapeutic protein aggregates

EM Moussa, JP Panchal, BS Moorthy, JS Blum… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Therapeutic proteins have a propensity for aggregation during manufacturing, shipping, and
storage. The presence of aggregates in protein drug products can induce adverse immune …

Computational approaches to therapeutic antibody design: established methods and emerging trends

RA Norman, F Ambrosetti, AMJJ Bonvin… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antibodies are proteins that recognize the molecular surfaces of potentially noxious
molecules to mount an adaptive immune response or, in the case of autoimmune diseases …

Advances in antibody design

KE Tiller, PM Tessier - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The use of monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics requires optimizing several of their key
attributes. These include binding affinity and specificity, folding stability, solubility …

Developability assessment during the selection of novel therapeutic antibodies

A Jarasch, H Koll, JT Regula, M Bader… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Therapeutic antibodies and antibody derivatives comprise the majority of today's
biotherapeutics. Routine methods to generate novel antibodies, such as immunization and …

In silico selection of therapeutic antibodies for development: viscosity, clearance, and chemical stability

VK Sharma, TW Patapoff, B Kabakoff… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
For mAbs to be viable therapeutics, they must be formulated to have low viscosity, be
chemically stable, and have normal in vivo clearance rates. We explored these properties by …

Computational design of stable and soluble biocatalysts

M Musil, H Konegger, J Hon, D Bednar… - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Natural enzymes are delicate biomolecules possessing only marginal thermodynamic
stability. Poorly stable, misfolded, and aggregated proteins lead to huge economic losses in …

Solubility, stability, and avidity of recombinant antibody fragments expressed in microorganisms

TH Kang, BL Seong - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Solubility of recombinant proteins (ie, the extent of soluble versus insoluble expression in
heterogeneous hosts) is the first checkpoint criterion for determining recombinant protein …

Understanding and overcoming trade-offs between antibody affinity, specificity, stability and solubility

LA Rabia, AA Desai, HS Jhajj, PM Tessier - Biochemical engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
The widespread use of monoclonal antibodies for therapeutic applications has led to intense
interest in optimizing several of their natural properties (affinity, specificity, stability, solubility …

Structure, heterogeneity and developability assessment of therapeutic antibodies

Y Xu, D Wang, B Mason, T Rossomando, N Li, D Liu… - MAbs, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing attention has been paid to developability assessment with the understanding that
thorough evaluation of monoclonal antibody lead candidates at an early stage can avoid …

AggScore: prediction of aggregation‐prone regions in proteins based on the distribution of surface patches

K Sankar, SR Krystek Jr, SM Carl… - Proteins: Structure …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Protein aggregation is a phenomenon that has attracted considerable attention within the
pharmaceutical industry from both a developability standpoint (to ensure stability of protein …