Advances in antibody design

KE Tiller, PM Tessier - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The use of monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics requires optimizing several of their key
attributes. These include binding affinity and specificity, folding stability, solubility …

[HTML][HTML] Dengue virus neutralizing antibody: a review of targets, cross-reactivity, and antibody-dependent enhancement

A Sarker, N Dhama, RD Gupta - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dengue is the most common viral infection spread by mosquitoes, prevalent in tropical
countries. The acute dengue virus (DENV) infection is a benign and primarily febrile illness …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-guided design of an anti-dengue antibody directed to a non-immunodominant epitope

LN Robinson, K Tharakaraman, KJ Rowley, VV Costa… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Dengue is the most common vector-borne viral disease, causing nearly 400 million
infections yearly. Currently there are no approved therapies. Antibody epitopes that elicit …

[HTML][HTML] Broadly neutralizing human antibodies against dengue virus identified by single B cell transcriptomics

ND Durham, A Agrawal, E Waltari, D Croote, F Zanini… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against the four dengue virus serotypes
(DENV1-4) that are spreading into new territories is an important goal of vaccine design. To …

Chimeric protein probes for C5a receptors through fusion of the anaphylatoxin C5a core region with a small-molecule antagonist

C Zuo, WW Shi, XX Chen, M Glatz, B Riedl… - Science China …, 2019 - Springer
Blockade of the interaction of anaphylatoxin C5a with its receptor C5aR1 has been actively
studied as a potential treatment for many inflammatory diseases; but current C5a …

[HTML][HTML] Structural vaccinology for viral vaccine design

MI Anasir, CL Poh - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Although vaccines have proven pivotal against arrays of infectious viral diseases, there are
still no effective vaccines against many viruses. New structural insights into the viral …

[HTML][HTML] Arginine mutations in antibody complementarity-determining regions display context-dependent affinity/specificity trade-offs

KE Tiller, L Li, S Kumar, MC Julian, S Garde… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
Antibodies commonly accumulate charged mutations in their complementarity-determining
regions (CDRs) during affinity maturation to enhance electrostatic interactions. However …

A broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibody is effective against H7N9

K Tharakaraman, V Subramanian… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Emerging strains of influenza represent a significant public health threat with potential
pandemic consequences. Of particular concern are the recently emerged H7N9 strains …

[HTML][HTML] Development of antibody therapeutics against flaviviruses

H Sun, Q Chen, H Lai - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Recent outbreaks of Zika virus (ZIKV) highlight the urgent need to develop efficacious
interventions against flaviviruses, many of which cause devastating epidemics around the …

Scoring functions for protein–protein interactions

IH Moal, R Moretti, D Baker… - Current opinion in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•Scoring can have implications for medicine, evolution and systems
biology.•Mutual information in functions designed for different task is yet to be …