Designing antibodies as therapeutics

PJ Carter, A Rajpal - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Antibody therapeutics are a large and rapidly expanding drug class providing major health
benefits. We provide a snapshot of current antibody therapeutics including their formats …

Progress and challenges for the machine learning-based design of fit-for-purpose monoclonal antibodies

R Akbar, H Bashour, P Rawat, PA Robert, E Smorodina… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although the therapeutic efficacy and commercial success of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)
are tremendous, the design and discovery of new candidates remain a time and cost …

Co-optimization of therapeutic antibody affinity and specificity using machine learning models that generalize to novel mutational space

EK Makowski, PC Kinnunen, J Huang, L Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Therapeutic antibody development requires selection and engineering of molecules with
high affinity and other drug-like biophysical properties. Co-optimization of multiple antibody …

Computational optimization of antibody humanness and stability by systematic energy-based ranking

A Tennenhouse, L Khmelnitsky, R Khalaila… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Conventional methods for humanizing animal-derived antibodies involve grafting their
complementarity-determining regions onto homologous human framework regions …

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 …

Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development

H Ausserwöger, MM Schneider, TW Herling… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies are highly potent therapeutic scaffolds with more than a hundred different
products approved on the market. Successful development of antibody-based drugs …

Trends in industrialization of biotherapeutics: a survey of product characteristics of 89 antibody-based biotherapeutics

KP Martin, C Grimaldi, R Grempler, S Hansel, S Kumar - MAbs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
There is considerable interest in the pharmaceutical industry toward development of
antibody-based biotherapeutics because they can selectively bind diverse receptors and …

Current advances in biopharmaceutical informatics: guidelines, impact and challenges in the computational developability assessment of antibody therapeutics

R Khetan, R Curtis, CM Deane, JT Hadsund, U Kar… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives are key components of clinical
pipelines in the global biopharmaceutical industry. The availability of large datasets of …

Intrinsic physicochemical profile of marketed antibody-based biotherapeutics

L Ahmed, P Gupta, KP Martin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Feeding biopharma pipelines with biotherapeutic candidates that possess desirable
developability profiles can help improve the productivity of biologic drug discovery and …

SEDNTERP: a calculation and database utility to aid interpretation of analytical ultracentrifugation and light scattering data

JS Philo - European Biophysics Journal, 2023 - Springer
Proper interpretation of analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) data for purified proteins
requires ancillary information and calculations to account for factors such as buoyancy …