Immunogenicity risk assessment and mitigation for engineered antibody and protein therapeutics

PJ Carter, V Quarmby - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Remarkable progress has been made in recent decades in engineering antibodies and
other protein therapeutics, including enhancements to existing functions as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Nanobodies: from high-throughput identification to therapeutic development

PC Fridy, MP Rout, NE Ketaren - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2024 - Elsevier
The camelid single-domain antibody fragment, commonly referred to as a nanobody,
achieves the targeting power of conventional monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) at only a …

Biophysical cartography of the native and human-engineered antibody landscapes quantifies the plasticity of antibody developability

H Bashour, E Smorodina, M Pariset, J Zhong… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Designing effective monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics faces a multi-parameter
optimization challenge known as “developability”, which reflects an antibody's ability to …

Humatch-fast, gene-specific joint humanisation of antibody heavy and light chains

L Chinery, JR Jeliazkov, CM Deane - MAbs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Antibodies are a popular and powerful class of therapeutic due to their ability to exhibit high
affinity and specificity to target proteins. However, the majority of antibody therapeutics are …

nanoBERT: a deep learning model for gene agnostic navigation of the nanobody mutational space

JT Hadsund, T Satława, B Janusz, L Shan… - Bioinformatics …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Nanobodies are a subclass of immunoglobulins, whose binding site consists of
only one peptide chain, bestowing favorable biophysical properties. Recently, the first …

Improving antibody humanness prediction using patent data

T Ucar, A Ramon, D Oglic… - … on Machine Learning, 2024 - openreview.net
We investigate the potential of patent data for improving the antibody humanness prediction
using a multi-stage, multi-loss training process. Humanness serves as a proxy for the …

Nanobody–antigen interaction prediction with ensemble deep learning and prompt-based protein language models

J Deng, M Gu, P Zhang, M Dong, T Liu… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Nanobodies can provide specific binding to divergent antigens, leading to many promising
therapeutic and detection applications in recent years. Traditional technologies of nanobody …

Prediction of protein biophysical traits from limited data: a case study on nanobody thermostability through NanoMelt

A Ramon, M Ni, O Predeina, R Gaffey, P Kunz… - mAbs, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
In-silico prediction of protein biophysical traits is often hindered by the limited availability of
experimental data and their heterogeneity. Training on limited data can lead to overfitting …

Prospects for the computational humanization of antibodies and nanobodies

GL Gordon, MIJ Raybould, A Wong… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
To be viable therapeutics, antibodies must be tolerated by the human immune system.
Rational approaches to reduce the risk of unwanted immunogenicity involve maximizing the …

Applications and challenges in designing VHH-based bispecific antibodies: leveraging machine learning solutions

M Mullin, J McClory, W Haynes, J Grace, N Robertson… - Mabs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The development of bispecific antibodies that bind at least two different targets relies on
bringing together multiple binding domains with different binding properties and biophysical …