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- Title
Generation of high-affinity human antibodies by combining donor-derived and synthetic complementarity-determining-region diversity.
- Authors
Hoet, RenéMichael; Cohen, Edward H; Kent, Rachel Baribault; Rookey, Kristin; Schoonbroodt, Sonia; Hogan, Shannon; Rem, Louise; Frans, Nicolas; Daukandt, Marc; Pieters, Henk; van Hegelsom, Rob; Neer, Nicole Coolen-van; Nastri, Horacio G; Rondon, Isaac J; Leeds, Jennifer A; Hufton, Simon E; Huang, Lili; Kashin, Irina; Devlin, Mary; Kuang, Guannan
- Abstract
Combinatorial libraries of rearranged hypervariable VH and VL sequences from nonimmunized human donors contain antigen specificities, including anti-self reactivities, created by random pairing of VHs and VLs. Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes, however, is critical in the generation of high-affinity antibodies in vivo and occurs only after immunization. Thus, in combinatorial phage display libraries from nonimmunized donors, high-affinity antibodies are rarely found. Lengthy in vitro affinity maturation is often needed to improve antibodies from such libraries. We report the construction of human Fab libraries having a unique combination of immunoglobulin sequences captured from human donors and synthetic diversity in key antigen contact sites in heavy-chain complementarity-determining regions 1 and 2. The success of this strategy is demonstrated by identifying many monovalent Fabs against multiple therapeutic targets that show higher affinities than approved therapeutic antibodies. This very often circumvents the need for affinity maturation, accelerating discovery of antibody drug candidates.
- Subjects
IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNIZATION; HEREDITY; IMMUNITY; GENES; MOLECULAR genetics
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 3, p344
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt1067