B cell tolerance and autoimmunity: Lessons from repertoires

J Deguine, RJ Xavier - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2024 - rupress.org
Adaptive immune cell function is regulated by a highly diverse receptor recombined from
variable germline-encoded segments that can recognize an almost unlimited array of …

AI-driven antibody design with generative diffusion models: current insights and future directions

X He, J Li, J Xu, H Shan, S Shen, S Gao… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2024 - nature.com
Therapeutic antibodies are at the forefront of biotherapeutics, valued for their high target
specificity and binding affinity. Despite their potential, optimizing antibodies for superior …

Learning the language of antibody hypervariability

R Singh, C Im, Y Qiu, B Mackness, A Gupta… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Protein language models (PLMs) based on machine learning have demon-strated
impressive success in predicting protein structure and function. However, general-purpose …

Engineering a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Targeting the Receptor-Binding Domain Cryptic-Face via Immunofocusing

TUJ Bruun, J Do, PAB Weidenbacher, A Utz… - ACS Central …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the main target of
neutralizing antibodies. Although they are infrequently elicited during infection or …

Deep mutational scanning of H5 hemagglutinin to inform influenza virus surveillance

B Dadonaite, JJ Ahn, JT Ort, J Yu, C Furey, A Dosey… - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
H5 influenza is considered a potential pandemic threat. Recently, H5 viruses belonging to
clade 2.3. 4.4 b have caused large outbreaks in avian and multiple non-human mammalian …

The Impact of Nanobodies on G Protein–Coupled Receptor Structural Biology and Their Potential as Therapeutic Agents

D Salom, A Wu, CC Liu… - Molecular …, 2024 - molpharm.aspetjournals.org
The family of human G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) comprises about 800 different
members, with about 35% of current pharmaceutical drugs targeting GPCRs. However …

Toward enhancement of antibody thermostability and affinity by computational design in the absence of antigen

M Hutchinson, JA Ruffolo, N Haskins, M Iannotti… - mAbs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past two decades, therapeutic antibodies have emerged as a rapidly expanding
domain within the field of biologics. In silico tools that can streamline the process of antibody …

Piccadilly full of people and other foul things: On heroism and perversion in the post-pandemic era

V Leksa - EMBO reports, 2024 - embopress.org
Sometime during the Covid-19 pan-demic I noticed certain changes in my behaviour. For
example, when someone was approaching me on the sidewalk, I switched to the other side …

Nanobody engineering: computational modelling and design for biomedical and therapeutic applications

NS El Salamouni, JH Cater, LM Spenkelink… - FEBS Open Bio, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nanobodies, the smallest functional antibody fragment derived from camelid heavy‐chain‐
only antibodies, have emerged as powerful tools for diverse biomedical applications. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid synthesis and screening of natively paired antibodies against influenza hemagglutinin stem via oPool+ display

WO Ouyang, H Lv, W Liu, Z Mou, R Lei, T Pholcharee… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antibody discovery is crucial for developing therapeutics and vaccines as well as
understanding adaptive immunity. However, the lack of approaches to synthesize antibodies …