Thermodynamically stable aggregation-resistant antibody domains through directed evolution |
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Authors: | Famm Kristoffer Hansen Lars Christ Daniel Winter Greg |
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Affiliation: | 1 Centre for Protein Engineering†, Medical Research Council Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK 2 Laboratory of Molecular Biology†, Medical Research Council Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK 3 Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia |
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Abstract: | Protein aggregates are usually formed by interactions between unfolded or partially unfolded species, and often occur when a protein is denatured by, for example, heat or low pH. In earlier work, we used a Darwinian selection strategy to create human antibody variable domains that resisted heat aggregation. The repertoires of domains were displayed on filamentous phage and denatured (at 80 °C in pH 7.4), and folded domains were selected by binding to a generic ligand after cooling. This process appeared to select for domains with denatured states that resisted aggregation, but the domains only had low free energies of folding (ΔGN-Do = 15-20 kJ/mol at 25 °C in pH 7.4). Here, using the same phage repertoire, we have extended the method to the selection of domains resistant to acid aggregation. In this case, however, the thermodynamic stabilities of selected domains were higher than those selected by thermal denaturation (under both neutral and acidic conditions; ΔGN-Do = 26-47 kJ/mol at 25 °C in pH 7.4, or ΔGN-Do = 27-34 kJ/mol in pH 3.2). Furthermore, we identified a key determinant (Arg28) that increased the aggregation resistance of the denatured states of the domains at low pH without compromising their thermodynamic stabilities. Thus, the selection process yielded domains that combined thermodynamic stability and aggregation-resistant unfolded states. We suggest that changes to these properties are controlled by the extent to which the folding equilibrium is displaced during the process of selection. |
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Keywords: | dAb, human antibody variable domain Tm, melting temperature PBS, phosphate-buffered saline |
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