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- Title
Logic-gated antibody pairs that selectively act on cells co-expressing two antigens.
- Authors
Oostindie, Simone C.; Rinaldi, Derek A.; Zom, Gijs G.; Wester, Michael J.; Paulet, Desiree; Al-Tamimi, Kusai; van der Meijden, Els; Scheick, Jennifer R.; Wilpshaar, Tessa; de Jong, Bart; Hoff-van den Broek, Marloes; Grattan, Rachel M.; Oosterhoff, Janita J.; Vignau, Julie; Verploegen, Sandra; Boross, Peter; Beurskens, Frank J.; Lidke, Diane S.; Schuurman, Janine; de Jong, Rob N.
- Abstract
The use of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies is constrained because single antigen targets often do not provide sufficient selectivity to distinguish diseased from healthy tissues. We present HexElect®, an approach to enhance the functional selectivity of therapeutic antibodies by making their activity dependent on clustering after binding to two different antigens expressed on the same target cell. lmmunoglobulin G (lgG)-mediated clustering of membrane receptors naturally occurs on cell surfaces to trigger complement- or cell-mediated effector functions or to initiate intracellular signaling. We engineer the Fc domains of two different lgG antibodies to suppress their individual homo-oligomerization while promoting their pairwise hetero-oligomerization after binding co-expressed antigens. We show that recruitment of complement component C1q to these hetero-oligomers leads to clustering-dependent activation of effector functions such as complement mediated killing of target cells or activation of cell surface receptors. HexElect allows selective antibody activity on target cells expressing unique, potentially unexplored combinations of surface antigens. Antibody pairs are made to act selectively on cells co-expressing two targets by engineering their Fc domains.
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2022, Vol 40, Issue 10, p1509
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41587-022-01384-1