The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

Extracellular targeted protein degradation: an emerging modality for drug discovery

JA Wells, K Kumru - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged in the past decade as a major new drug
modality to remove intracellular proteins with bispecific small molecules that recruit the …

Optimization of therapeutic antibodies for reduced self-association and non-specific binding via interpretable machine learning

EK Makowski, T Wang, JM Zupancic, J Huang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Antibody development, delivery, and efficacy are influenced by antibody-antigen affinity
interactions, off-target interactions that reduce antibody bioavailability and …

Epitope-engineered human hematopoietic stem cells are shielded from CD123-targeted immunotherapy

R Marone, E Landmann, A Devaux, R Lepore… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Targeted eradication of transformed or otherwise dysregulated cells using monoclonal
antibodies (mAb), antibody–drug conjugates (ADC), T cell engagers (TCE), or chimeric …

Artificial intelligence in cancer immunotherapy: applications in neoantigen recognition, antibody design and immunotherapy response prediction

T Li, Y Li, X Zhu, Y He, Y Wu, T Ying, Z Xie - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy is a method of controlling and eliminating tumors by reactivating the
body's cancer-immunity cycle and restoring its antitumor immune response. The increased …

Nuclease-assisted selection of slow-off rate aptamers

O Alkhamis, J Canoura, L Wang, Y Xiao - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Conventional directed evolution methods offer the ability to select bioreceptors with high
binding affinity for a specific target in terms of thermodynamic properties. However, there is a …

NKp46specific single domain antibodies enable facile engineering of various potent NK cell engager formats

B Lipinski, P Arras, L Pekar, D Klewinghaus… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we describe the generation of potent NK cell engagers (NKCEs) based on single
domain antibodies (sdAbs) specific for NKp46 harboring the humanized Fab version of …

Can the new adipokine asprosin be a metabolic troublemaker for cardiovascular diseases? A state-of-the-art review

Z Zhang, L Zhu, Z Wang, N Hua, S Hu… - Progress in Lipid Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Adipokines play a significant role in cardiometabolic diseases. Asprosin, a newly discovered
adipokine, was first identified as a glucose-raising protein hormone. Asprosin also …

Nuclear-import receptors as gatekeepers of pathological phase transitions in ALS/FTD

B Khalil, M Linsenmeier, CL Smith, J Shorter… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders on a disease spectrum that are characterized by the …

Automated optimisation of solubility and conformational stability of antibodies and proteins

A Rosace, A Bennett, M Oeller, MM Mortensen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Biologics, such as antibodies and enzymes, are crucial in research, biotechnology,
diagnostics, and therapeutics. Often, biologics with suitable functionality are discovered, but …