Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Antibody display technologies: selecting the cream of the crop

B Valldorf, SC Hinz, G Russo, L Pekar, L Mohr… - Biological …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Antibody display technologies enable the successful isolation of antigen-specific antibodies
with therapeutic potential. The key feature that facilitates the selection of an antibody with …

Optimization of therapeutic antibodies by predicting antigen specificity from antibody sequence via deep learning

DM Mason, S Friedensohn, CR Weber… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The optimization of therapeutic antibodies is time-intensive and resource-demanding,
largely because of the low-throughput screening of full-length antibodies (approximately 1× …

Deep mutational learning predicts ACE2 binding and antibody escape to combinatorial mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain

JM Taft, CR Weber, B Gao, RA Ehling, J Han, L Frei… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The continual evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of variants that show resistance
to vaccines and neutralizing antibodies threaten to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic …

In silico proof of principle of machine learning-based antibody design at unconstrained scale

R Akbar, PA Robert, CR Weber, M Widrich, R Frank… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Generative machine learning (ML) has been postulated to become a major driver in the
computational design of antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb). However, efforts to …

MaveDB: an open-source platform to distribute and interpret data from multiplexed assays of variant effect

D Esposito, J Weile, J Shendure, LM Starita… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs), such as deep mutational scans and massively
parallel reporter assays, test thousands of sequence variants in a single experiment. Despite …

A compact vocabulary of paratope-epitope interactions enables predictability of antibody-antigen binding

R Akbar, PA Robert, M Pavlović, JR Jeliazkov… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Antibody-antigen binding relies on the specific interaction of amino acids at the paratope-
epitope interface. The predictability of antibody-antigen binding is a prerequisite for de novo …

High-throughput T cell receptor engineering by functional screening identifies candidates with enhanced potency and specificity

R Vazquez-Lombardi, JS Jung, FS Schlatter, A Mei… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
A major challenge in adoptive T cell immunotherapy is the discovery of natural T cell
receptors (TCRs) with high activity and specificity to tumor antigens. Engineering synthetic …

Deep mutational scanning for therapeutic antibody engineering

KR Hanning, M Minot, AK Warrender, W Kelton… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
The biophysical and functional properties of monoclonal antibody (mAb) drug candidates
are often improved by protein engineering methods to increase the probability of clinical …

immuneSIM: tunable multi-feature simulation of B-and T-cell receptor repertoires for immunoinformatics benchmarking

CR Weber, R Akbar, A Yermanos, M Pavlović… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
B-and T-cell receptor repertoires of the adaptive immune system have become a key target
for diagnostics and therapeutics research. Consequently, there is a rapidly growing number …