Strategies for extended serum half-life of protein therapeutics

RE Kontermann - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2011 - Elsevier
With a growing number of protein therapeutics being developed, many of them exhibiting a
short plasma half-life, half-life extension strategies find increasing attention by the biotech …

Albumin as a versatile platform for drug half-life extension

D Sleep, J Cameron, LR Evans - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Albumin is the most abundant plasma protein, is highly soluble, very stable and
has an extraordinarily long circulatory half-life as a direct result of its size and interaction …

Unraveling the interaction between FcRn and albumin: opportunities for design of albumin-based therapeutics

KMK Sand, M Bern, J Nilsen, HT Noordzij… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) was first found to be responsible for transporting antibodies
of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) class from the mother to the fetus or neonate as well as for …

[HTML][HTML] Pros and cons of different therapeutic antibody formats for recombinant antivenom development

AH Laustsen, JM Gutiérrez, C Knudsen, KH Johansen… - Toxicon, 2018 - Elsevier
Antibody technologies are being increasingly applied in the field of toxinology. Fuelled by
the many advances in immunology, synthetic biology, and antibody research, different …

The role of albumin receptors in regulation of albumin homeostasis: Implications for drug delivery

M Bern, KMK Sand, J Nilsen, I Sandlie… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Albumin is the most abundant protein in blood and acts as a molecular taxi for a plethora of
small insoluble substances such as nutrients, hormones, metals and toxins. In addition, it …

Extending serum half-life of albumin by engineering neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) binding

JT Andersen, B Dalhus, D Viuff, BT Ravn… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
A major challenge for the therapeutic use of many peptides and proteins is their short
circulatory half-life. Albumin has an extended serum half-life of 3 weeks because of its size …

Structure-based mutagenesis reveals the albumin-binding site of the neonatal Fc receptor

JT Andersen, B Dalhus, J Cameron, MB Daba… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Albumin is the most abundant protein in blood where it has a pivotal role as a transporter of
fatty acids and drugs. Like IgG, albumin has long serum half-life, protected from degradation …

Unconventional microbial systems for the cost-efficient production of high-quality protein therapeutics

JL Corchero, B Gasser, D Resina, W Smith… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Both conventional and innovative biomedical approaches require cost-effective protein
drugs with high therapeutic potency, improved bioavailability, biocompatibility, stability and …

Direct demonstration of a neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn)-driven endosomal sorting pathway for cellular recycling of albumin

EGW Schmidt, ML Hvam, F Antunes, J Cameron… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
Albumin is the most abundant plasma protein involved in the transport of many compounds,
such as fatty acids, bilirubin, and heme. The endothelial cellular neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) …

General introduction: recombinant protein production and purification of insoluble proteins

N Ferrer-Miralles, P Saccardo, JL Corchero… - … Proteins: Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
Proteins are synthesized in heterologous systems because of the impossibility to obtain
satisfactory yields from natural sources. The production of soluble and functional …