Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

An in silico method to assess antibody fragment polyreactivity

  • Edward P. Harvey,
  • Jung-Eun Shin,
  • Meredith A. Skiba,
  • Genevieve R. Nemeth,
  • Joseph D. Hurley,
  • Alon Wellner,
  • Ada Y. Shaw,
  • Victor G. Miranda,
  • Joseph K. Min,
  • Chang C. Liu,
  • Debora S. Marks,
  • Andrew C. Kruse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35276-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Off-target binding hinders the development of therapeutic antibodies and reproducibility in basic research settings. Here the authors develop a method to quantify and reduce the polyreactivity of antibody fragments based on protein sequence alone.