Antibody mimetics are organic compounds that, like antibodies, can specifically bind antigens, but that are not structurally related to antibodies. They are usually artificial peptides or proteins with a molar mass of about 3 to 20 kDa. (Antibodies are ~150 kDa.)
Nucleic acids and small molecules are sometimes considered antibody mimetics as well, but not artificial antibodies, antibody fragments and fusion proteins composed from these.
Common advantages over antibodies are better solubility, tissue penetration, stability towards heat and enzymes, and comparatively low production costs. Antibody mimetics are being developed as therapeutic and diagnostic agents.[1]
Examples
editAntibody mimetic | Scaffold | Molar mass | Example drug |
---|---|---|---|
Affibody molecules[2] | Z domain of Protein A | 6 kDa | ABY-025 |
Affilins[3] | Gamma-B crystallin | 20 kDa | |
Ubiquitin | 10 kDa | SPVF 2801 | |
Affimers[4] (Adhirons) | Cystatin | 12–14 kDa | |
Affitins[5] | Sac7d (from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius) | 7 kDa | |
Alphabodies[6] | Triple helix coiled coil | 10 kDa | CMPX-1023 |
Anticalins[7] | Lipocalins | 20 kDa | |
Avimers[8] | A domains of various membrane receptors | 9–18 kDa | |
DARPins[9] | Ankyrin repeat motif | 10–19 kDa | MP0112 |
Fynomers[10] | SH3 domain of Fyn | 7 kDa | |
Gastrobodies[11] | Kunitz-type soybean trypsin inhibitor | 20 kDa | |
Kunitz domain peptides[12] | Kunitz domains of various protease inhibitors | 6 kDa | Ecallantide (Kalbitor) |
Monobodies[13] | 10th type III domain of fibronectin | 10 kDa | Pegdinetanib (Angiocept) |
nanoCLAMPs[14] | Carbohydrate Binding Module 32-2 (from Clostridium perfringens NagH) | 16 kDa | |
Optimers[15] | Flexible nucleic acid based scaffold; G-quadruplex | 8-15 kDa | |
Repebodies[16] | leucine-rich repeats | ||
Pronectin™[17] | fourteenth fibronectin type-III scaffold of Human Fibronectin (14Fn3) | 10 kDa | |
Centyrins[18] | highly stable fibronectin type III (FN3) domain | 10 kDa | |
Obodies[19] | a high affinity binding protein domain engineered to bind to Hen Egg-white Lysozyme |
See also
editReferences
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- ^ Nygren PA (June 2008). "Alternative binding proteins: affibody binding proteins developed from a small three-helix bundle scaffold". FEBS J. 275 (11): 2668–76. doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06438.x. PMID 18435759.
- ^ Ebersbach H, Fiedler E, Scheuermann T, et al. (September 2007). "Affilin-novel binding molecules based on human gamma-B-crystallin, an all beta-sheet protein". J. Mol. Biol. 372 (1): 172–85. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2007.06.045. PMID 17628592.
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- ^ Desmet J, Verstraete K, Bloch Y, Lorent E, Wen Y, Devreese B, et al. (October 2014). "Structural basis of IL-23 antagonism by an Alphabody protein scaffold". Nature Communications. 5: 5237. doi:10.1038/ncomms6237. PMC 4220489. PMID 25354530.
- ^ Skerra A (June 2008). "Alternative binding proteins: anticalins - harnessing the structural plasticity of the lipocalin ligand pocket to engineer novel binding activities". FEBS J. 275 (11): 2677–83. doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06439.x. PMID 18435758. S2CID 19992238.
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- ^ Stumpp MT, Binz HK, Amstutz P (August 2008). "DARPins: a new generation of protein therapeutics". Drug Discov. Today. 13 (15–16): 695–701. doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2008.04.013. PMID 18621567.
- ^ Grabulovski D, Kaspar M, Neri D (February 2007). "A novel, non-immunogenic Fyn SH3-derived binding protein with tumor vascular targeting properties". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (5): 3196–204. doi:10.1074/jbc.M609211200. PMID 17130124.
- ^ Wicke N, Bedford MR, Howarth M (August 2021). "Gastrobodies are engineered antibody mimetics resilient to pepsin and hydrochloric acid". Communications Biology. 4 (1): 960. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02487-2. PMC 8358037. PMID 34381153.
- ^ Nixon AE, Wood CR (March 2006). "Engineered protein inhibitors of proteases". Curr Opin Drug Discov Dev. 9 (2): 261–8. PMID 16566296.
- ^ Koide A, Koide S (2007). "Monobodies: antibody mimics based on the scaffold of the fibronectin type III domain". Protein Engineering Protocols. Methods Mol. Biol. Vol. 352. pp. 95–109. doi:10.1385/1-59745-187-8:95. ISBN 978-1-59745-187-1. PMID 17041261.
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- ^ Hantschel O (2017-11-20). "Monobodies as possible next-generation protein therapeutics - a perspective". Swiss Medical Weekly. 147 (4748): w14545. doi:10.4414/smw.2017.14545. PMC 7316567. PMID 29185244.
- ^ "Pronectin Technology". Protelica. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ Goldberg SD, Cardoso RM, Lin T, Spinka-Doms T, Klein D, Jacobs SA, et al. (December 2016). "Engineering a targeted delivery platform using Centyrins". Protein Engineering, Design & Selection. 29 (12): 563–572. doi:10.1093/protein/gzw054. PMID 27737926.
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