T cell engaging bispecific antibody (T-BsAb): from technology to therapeutics

Z Wu, NV Cheung - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Harnessing the power of the human immune system to treat cancer is the essence of
immunotherapy. Monoclonal antibodies engage the innate immune system to destroy …

Control of protein functional dynamics by peptide linkers

W Wriggers, S Chakravarty… - … : Original Research on …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Control of structural flexibility is essential for the proper functioning of a large number of
proteins and multiprotein complexes. At the residue level, such flexibility occurs due to local …

Nephrin strands contribute to a porous slit diaphragm scaffold as revealed by electron tomography

J Wartiovaara, LG Öfverstedt… - The Journal of …, 2004 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Nephrin is a key functional component of the slit diaphragm, the structurally unresolved
molecular filter in renal glomerular capillaries. Abnormal nephrin or its absence results in …

Capturing transient antibody conformations with DNA origami epitopes

P Zhang, X Liu, P Liu, F Wang, H Ariyama… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Revealing antibody-antigen interactions at the single-molecule level will deepen our
understanding of immunology. However, structural determination under crystal or cryogenic …

Site-Specifically-Labeled Antibodies for Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveal In Situ Linkage Errors

SM Früh, U Matti, PR Spycher, M Rubini, S Lickert… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The precise spatial localization of proteins in situ by super-resolution microscopy (SRM)
demands their targeted labeling. Positioning reporter molecules as close as possible to the …

Complement activation by IgG subclasses is governed by their ability to oligomerize upon antigen binding

N Frischauf, J Strasser, EGF Borg, AF Labrijn… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Complement activation through antibody–antigen complexes is crucial in various
pathophysiological processes and utilized in immunotherapies to eliminate infectious …

3D structural fluctuation of IgG1 antibody revealed by individual particle electron tomography

X Zhang, L Zhang, H Tong, B Peng, MJ Rames… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Commonly used methods for determining protein structure, including X-ray crystallography
and single-particle reconstruction, often provide a single and unique three-dimensional (3D) …

Changes in complementarity-determining regions significantly alter IgG binding to the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) and pharmacokinetics

NM Piche-Nicholas, LB Avery, AC King, M Kavosi… - MAbs, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A large body of data exists demonstrating that neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn)
binding of an IgG via its Fc CH2-CH3 interface trends with the pharmacokinetics (PK) of IgG …

IgGs are made for walking on bacterial and viral surfaces

J Preiner, N Kodera, J Tang, A Ebner… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Binding of antibodies to their cognate antigens is fundamental for adaptive immunity.
Molecular engineering of antibodies for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes emerges to be …

Multivalency in ligand design

VM Krishnamurthy, LA Estroff… - … -based approaches in …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We define multivalency to be the operation of multiple molecular recognition events of the
same kind occurring simultaneously between two entities (molecules, molecular aggregates …