Antibody informatics for drug discovery |
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Authors: | Hiroki Shirai Catherine Prades Randi Vita Paolo Marcatili Bojana Popovic Jianqing Xu John P Overington Kazunori Hirayama Shinji Soga Kazuhisa Tsunoyama Dominic Clark Marie-Paule Lefranc Kazuyoshi Ikeda |
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Institution: | 1. Molecular Medicine Research Laboratories, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., 21, Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8585, Japan;2. Global Biotherapeutics, Bioinformatics, Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Développement, Centre de recherche Vitry-sur-Seine, 13, quai Jules Guesde, BP 14, 94403 Vitry-sur-Seine Cedex, France;3. Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Project, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, 9420 Athena Circle, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA;4. Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Anker Engelunds Vej 1, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark;5. MedImmune Ltd, Milstein Building, Granta Park, Cambridge CB21 6GH, UK;6. The EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;g IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®, Laboratoire d''ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire (LIGM), Université Montpellier 2, Institut de Génétique Humaine, UPR CNRS 1142, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France |
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Abstract: | More and more antibody therapeutics are being approved every year, mainly due to their high efficacy and antigen selectivity. However, it is still difficult to identify the antigen, and thereby the function, of an antibody if no other information is available. There are obstacles inherent to the antibody science in every project in antibody drug discovery. Recent experimental technologies allow for the rapid generation of large-scale data on antibody sequences, affinity, potency, structures, and biological functions; this should accelerate drug discovery research. Therefore, a robust bioinformatic infrastructure for these large data sets has become necessary. In this article, we first identify and discuss the typical obstacles faced during the antibody drug discovery process. We then summarize the current status of three sub-fields of antibody informatics as follows: (i) recent progress in technologies for antibody rational design using computational approaches to affinity and stability improvement, as well as ab-initio and homology-based antibody modeling; (ii) resources for antibody sequences, structures, and immune epitopes and open drug discovery resources for development of antibody drugs; and (iii) antibody numbering and IMGT. Here, we review “antibody informatics,” which may integrate the above three fields so that bridging the gaps between industrial needs and academic solutions can be accelerated. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Recent advances in molecular engineering of antibody. |
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Keywords: | 2D two-dimensional 3D three-dimensional CDR complementarity determining region CMC chemistry manufacturing and control CPCA composite protein for clinical applications CS canonical structure EMBL-EBI EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute FPIA fusion protein for immune applications FR framework region HTS high throughput sequencing IG immunoglobulin IgSF immunoglobulin superfamily IMGT the international ImMunoGeneTics information system MH major histocompatibility MhSF MH superfamily NGS next generation sequencing PD pharmacodynamics PK pharmacokinetics SPR surface plasmon resonance RMSD root mean square deviation TR T cell receptor VH variable region of heavy chain VL variable region of light chain |
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