Avidity in antibody effector functions and biotherapeutic drug design

SC Oostindie, GA Lazar, J Schuurman… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies are the cardinal effector molecules of the immune system and are being
leveraged with enormous success as biotherapeutic drugs. A key part of the adaptive …

Antibody structure and function: the basis for engineering therapeutics

ML Chiu, DR Goulet, A Teplyakov, GL Gilliland - Antibodies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antibodies and antibody-derived macromolecules have established themselves as the
mainstay in protein-based therapeutic molecules (biologics). Our knowledge of the structure …

Next generation antibody drugs: pursuit of the'high-hanging fruit'

PJ Carter, GA Lazar - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Antibodies are the most rapidly growing drug class and have a major impact on human
health, particularly in oncology, autoimmunity and chronic inflammatory diseases. Many of …

Conceptual approaches to modulating antibody effector functions and circulation half-life

KO Saunders - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antibodies and Fc-fusion antibody-like proteins have become successful biologics
developed for cancer treatment, passive immunity against infection, addiction, and …

Fc-engineering for modulated effector functions—improving antibodies for cancer treatment

R Liu, RJ Oldham, E Teal, SA Beers, MS Cragg - Antibodies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The majority of monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics possess the ability to engage
innate immune effectors through interactions mediated by their fragment crystallizable (Fc) …

IgG Fc engineering to modulate antibody effector functions

X Wang, M Mathieu, RJ Brezski - Protein & cell, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies are among the most effective biotherapeutics to date. An
important aspect of antibodies is their ability to bind antigen while at the same time recruit …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative molecular formats and therapeutic applications for bispecific antibodies

C Spiess, Q Zhai, PJ Carter - Molecular immunology, 2015 - Elsevier
Bispecific antibodies are on the cusp of coming of age as therapeutics more than half a
century after they were first described. Two bispecific antibodies, catumaxomab (Removab® …

Considerations for the design of antibody-based therapeutics

DR Goulet, WM Atkins - Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibody-based proteins have become an important class of biologic therapeutics, due in
large part to the stability, specificity, and adaptability of the antibody framework. Indeed …

Engaging innate immunity in HIV-1 cure strategies

NL Board, M Moskovljevic, F Wu, RF Siliciano… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) can block multiple stages of the HIV-1 life cycle to
prevent progression to AIDS in people living with HIV-1. However, owing to the persistence …

Differential control of human Treg and effector T cells in tumor immunity by Fc-engineered anti–CTLA-4 antibody

D Ha, A Tanaka, T Kibayashi… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Anti–CTLA-4 mAb is efficacious in enhancing tumor immunity in humans. CTLA-4 is
expressed by conventional T cells upon activation and by naturally occurring FOXP3+ CD4+ …