[HTML][HTML] Beyond neutralization: Fc-dependent antibody effector functions in SARS-CoV-2 infection

A Zhang, HD Stacey, MR D'Agostino, Y Tugg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies are known to have a crucial role in protecting against SARS-CoV-2
infection and have been suggested to be a useful correlate of protection for vaccine clinical …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Beyond binding: antibody effector functions in infectious diseases

LL Lu, TJ Suscovich, SM Fortune, G Alter - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Antibodies play an essential role in host defence against pathogens by recognizing
microorganisms or infected cells. Although preventing pathogen entry is one potential …

[HTML][HTML] Fc effector function contributes to the activity of human anti-CTLA-4 antibodies

FA Vargas, AJS Furness, K Litchfield, K Joshi… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
With the use of a mouse model expressing human Fc-gamma receptors (FcγRs), we
demonstrated that antibodies with isotypes equivalent to ipilimumab and tremelimumab …

[HTML][HTML] IgG subclasses and allotypes: from structure to effector functions

G Vidarsson, G Dekkers, T Rispens - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Of the five immunoglobulin isotypes, immunoglobulin G (IgG) is most abundant in human
serum. The four subclasses, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4, which are highly conserved, differ …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular properties of human IgG subclasses and their implications for designing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases

V Irani, AJ Guy, D Andrew, JG Beeson… - Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Monoclonal antibodies are being developed as therapeutics to complement drugs and
vaccines or to fill the gap where no drugs or vaccines exist. These therapeutic antibodies …

[HTML][HTML] FcγR binding and ADCC activity of human IgG allotypes

SW De Taeye, AEH Bentlage, MM Mebius… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) is an Fc-dependent effector function of IgG
important for anti-viral immunity and anti-tumor therapies. NK-cell mediated ADCC is mainly …

Fc‐fusion proteins: new developments and future perspectives

DM Czajkowsky, J Hu, Z Shao… - EMBO molecular medicine, 2012 - embopress.org
Since the first description in 1989 of CD4‐Fc‐fusion antagonists that inhibit human immune
deficiency virus entry into T cells, Fc‐fusion proteins have been intensely investigated for …

Engineered antibody Fc variants with enhanced effector function

GA Lazar, W Dang, S Karki, O Vafa… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity, a key effector function for the clinical efficacy
of monoclonal antibodies, is mediated primarily through a set of closely related Fcγ …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting therapeutic potency of antibodies by taming Fc domain functions

TH Kang, ST Jung - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are one of the most widely used drug platforms for infectious
diseases or cancer therapeutics because they selectively target pathogens, infectious cells …