Communications Biology (Feb 2022)

A synthetic protein as efficient multitarget regulator against complement over-activation

  • Natalia Ruiz-Molina,
  • Juliana Parsons,
  • Madeleine Müller,
  • Sebastian N. W. Hoernstein,
  • Lennard L. Bohlender,
  • Steffen Pumple,
  • Peter F. Zipfel,
  • Karsten Häffner,
  • Ralf Reski,
  • Eva L. Decker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03094-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Ruiz-Molina et al. design a synthetic protein, MFHR13, as a multi-target complement regulator. They demonstrate that it protects sheep erythrocytes from complement attack exhibiting 26 and 4-fold the regulatory activity of eculizumab and human Factor H, respectively, which highlights its therapeutic potential.