Antibody affinity maturation by computational design
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The immune systems protect our bodies from foreign molecules or antigens, where antibodies play important roles. Antibodies evolve over time upon antigen encounter by somatically mutating their genome sequences. The end result is a series of antibodies that display higher affinities and specificities to specific antigens. This process is called affinity maturation. Recent improvements in computer hardware and modeling algorithms now enable the rational design of protein structures and functions, and several works on computer-aided antibody design have been published. In this chapter, we briefly describe computational methods for antibody affinity maturation, focusing on methods for sampling antibody conformations and for scoring designed antibody variants. We also discuss lessons learned from the successful computer-aided design of antibodies.
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The availability of an antigen structure opens up the possibility to develop a novel antibody binder computationally.
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- Authors
- Kuroda, D., & Tsumoto, K.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Tsumoto, Kouhei
- Venue
- Methods in molecular biology
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 1827
- Pages
- 15-34
- ISSN
- 1064-3745 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-6029
- OpenAlex
- W2890155846
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 142
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 12.40
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Methods in molecular biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Keywords
- affinity maturation, somatic hypermutation, rational protein design, antibody-antigen binding
- MeSH terms
- Antibody Affinity, Humans, Models, Molecular, Mutation, Computer-Aided Design, Computational Biology
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