Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

An in vivo platform to select and evolve aggregation-resistant proteins

  • Jessica S. Ebo,
  • Janet C. Saunders,
  • Paul W. A. Devine,
  • Alice M. Gordon,
  • Amy S. Warwick,
  • Bob Schiffrin,
  • Stacey E. Chin,
  • Elizabeth England,
  • James D. Button,
  • Christopher Lloyd,
  • Nicholas J. Bond,
  • Alison E. Ashcroft,
  • Sheena E. Radford,
  • David C. Lowe,
  • David J. Brockwell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15667-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Protein aggregation remains a significant challenge for manufacturing of protein biopharmaceuticals. Here, the authors demonstrate the use of directed evolution and an assay for in vivo innate protein aggregation-propensity to generate aggregation-resistant scFv fragments.