Understanding AL amyloidosis with a little help from in vivo models

G Martinez-Rivas, S Bender, C Sirac - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) light chain amyloidosis (AL) is a rare but severe disease
that may occur when a B or plasma cell clone secretes an excess of free Ig light chains …

Role of the mechanisms for antibody repertoire diversification in monoclonal light chain deposition disorders: when a friend becomes foe

L Del Pozo-Yauner, GA Herrera… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The adaptive immune system of jawed vertebrates generates a highly diverse repertoire of
antibodies to meet the antigenic challenges of a constantly evolving biological ecosystem …

How I treat AL amyloidosis

G Palladini, G Merlini - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
The treatment of patients with systemic light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a challenge to
hematologists. Despite its generally small size, the underlying clone causes a rapidly …

Machine learning prediction of antibody aggregation and viscosity for high concentration formulation development of protein therapeutics

PK Lai, A Gallegos, N Mody, HA Sathish, BL Trout - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Machine learning has been recently used to predict therapeutic antibody aggregation rates
and viscosity at high concentrations (150 mg/ml). These works focused on commercially …

Chemical signatures to identify the origin of solid ashes for efficient recycling using machine learning

C Qi, M Wu, X Xu, Q Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Solid ashes constitute the world's leading environmental problem and their efficient
recycling requires specific origin information. Chemical signatures encode the …

Identification of AL proteins from 10 λ-AL amyloidosis patients by mass spectrometry extracted from abdominal fat and heart tissue

J Baur, N Berghaus, S Schreiner, U Hegenbart… - Amyloid, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Systemic AL amyloidosis arises from the misfolding of patient-specific
immunoglobulin light chains (LCs). Potential drivers of LC amyloid formation are mutational …

Single‐molecule real‐time sequencing of the M protein: Toward personalized medicine in monoclonal gammopathies

P Cascino, A Nevone, M Piscitelli… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To the Editor: Each patient with a monoclonal gammopathy has a unique monoclonal (M)
protein, whose sequence can be used as a tumoral fingerprint to track the presence of the B …

Genetic pathogenesis of immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis: basic characteristics and clinical applications

L Xu, Y Su - Experimental Hematology & Oncology, 2021 - Springer
Immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) is an indolent plasma cell disorder
characterized by free immunoglobulin light chain (FLC) misfolding and amyloid fibril …

How Artificial Intelligence Can Enhance the Diagnosis of Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Review of Recent Advances and Challenges

MA Kamel, MT Abbas, CN Kanaan, KA Awad… - Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an underdiagnosed form of infiltrative cardiomyopathy caused
by abnormal amyloid fibrils deposited extracellularly in the myocardium and cardiac …

AB-Amy: machine learning aided amyloidogenic risk prediction of therapeutic antibody light chains

Y Zhou, Z Huang, Y Gou, S Liu, W Yang… - Antibody …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Over 120 FDA-approved antibody-based therapeutics are used to treat a variety of diseases.
However, many candidates could fail because of unfavorable physicochemical properties …