Stable, soluble T‐cell receptor molecules for crystallization and therapeutics

JM Boulter, M Glick, PT Todorov, E Baston… - Protein …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Antibody and T‐cell receptors (TCRs) are the primary recognition molecules of the adaptive
immune system. Antibodies have been extensively characterized and are being developed …

Display, engineering, and applications of antigen-specific T cell receptors

SA Richman, DM Kranz - Biomolecular engineering, 2007 - Elsevier
The use of T cell receptors (TCRs) as potential therapeutic agents provides an opportunity to
target a greatly expanded array of antigens, compared to those now targeted with …

Directed evolution of a stable scaffold for T-cell receptor engineering

EV Shusta, PD Holler, MC Kieke, DM Kranz… - Nature …, 2000 - nature.com
Here we have constructed a single-chain T-cell receptor (scTCR) scaffold with high stability
and soluble expression efficiency by directed evolution and yeast surface display. We …

Engineering higher affinity T cell receptors using a T cell display system

AS Chervin, DH Aggen, JM Raseman… - Journal of immunological …, 2008 - Elsevier
The T cell receptor (TCR) determines the cellular response to antigens, which are presented
on the surface of target cells in the form of a peptide bound to a product of the major …

A soluble, single-chain T-cell receptor fragment endowed with antigen-combining properties.

J Novotny, RK Ganju, ST Smiley… - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - National Acad Sciences
A strategy for the production of small, soluble, single-chain T-cell receptor (scTCR)
fragments that carry an intact TCR antigen-combining site is presented. The rationale is …

Functional three-domain single-chain T-cell receptors.

S Chung, KW Wucherpfennig… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
T-cell receptors (TCRs) are membrane anchored heterodimers structurally related to
antibody molecules. Single-chain antibodies can be engineered by linking the two variable …

Breaking the affinity ceiling for antibodies and T cell receptors

J Foote, HN Eisen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
The antigen receptors made by lympho-cytes are antibodies, which exist as soluble and cell-
bound molecules, and T cell receptors (TCRs), which are always found on cell surfaces. The …

New simplified molecular design for functional T cell receptor

T Brocker, A Peter, A Traunecker… - European journal of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
We have produced a chimeric single‐chain T cell receptor (TcR) that combines the specific
antibody recognition function and TcR/CD3 signaling properties within the same polypeptide …

Design of soluble recombinant T cell receptors for antigen targeting and T cell inhibition

B Laugel, JM Boulter, N Lissin, A Vuidepot, Y Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
The use of recombinant T cell receptors (TCRs) to target therapeutic interventions has been
hindered by the naturally low affinity of TCR interactions with peptide major …

Selection of functional T cell receptor mutants from a yeast surface-display library

MC Kieke, EV Shusta, ET Boder… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The heterodimeric αβ T cell receptor (TCR) for antigen is the key determinant of T cell
specificity. The structure of the TCR is very similar to that of antibodies, but the engineering …