Cited by 45Protein purification and stabilityMonoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies ResearchComputational Drug Discovery Methods

Machine learning feature selection for predicting high concentration therapeutic antibody aggregation

Lai, Pin-Kuang, Fernando, Amendra, Cloutier, Theresa K., Kingsbury, Jonathan S., Gokarn, Yatin, Halloran, Kevin T., Calero-Rubio, Cesar, Trout, Bernhardt L.·2021·Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Abstract

Protein aggregation can hinder the development, safety and efficacy of therapeutic antibody-based drugs. Developing a predictive model that evaluates aggregation behaviors during early stage development is therefore desirable. Machine learning is a widely used tool to train models that predict data with different attributes. However, most machine learning techniques require more data than is typically available in antibody development. In this work, we describe a rational feature selection framework to develop accurate models with a small number of features. We applied this framework to predict aggregation behaviors of 21 approved monospecific monoclonal antibodies at high concentration (150 mg/mL), yielding a correlation coefficient of 0.71 on validation tests with only two features using a linear model. The nearest neighbors and support vector regression models further improved the performance, which have correlation coefficients of 0.86 and 0.80, respectively. This framework can be extended to train other models that predict different physical properties.

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  • The Trout group identified the spatial charge map (SCM) positive of the Fv region and surface accessible surface area (SASA) of the CDR-H2 and H3 as the two most important molecular dynamics simulation features in their model.

    “The group identified the spatial charge map (SCM) positive of the Fv region, which describes the sum of all the positive charge patches in the variable region, and surface accessible surface area (SASA) of the CDR-H2 and H3 as the two most important molecular dynamics (MD) simulation features in their model [29].”
  • The Trout group proposed an ML framework obtained from various models, including linear regression, support vector regression, and nearest neighbors' regression to predict antibodies' aggregation rate, which followed the form: Aggregation rate = -0.34 × SCM positive Fv + 0.29 × SASA CDRH2H3 + 0.84.

    “The Trout group proposed an ML framework obtained from various models, including linear regression, support vector regression, and nearest neighbors' regression to predict antibodies' aggregation rate, which followed the form:”

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Authors
Lai, P.-K., Fernando, A., Cloutier, T. K., Kingsbury, J. S., Gokarn, Y., Halloran, K. T., Calero-Rubio, C., & Trout, B. L.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Sanofi (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Trout, Bernhardt L.
Venue
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-04
Volume
110
Issue
4
Pages
1583-1591
ISSN
0022-3549 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3110652321
Cited by
45
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 1
FWCI
1.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Sanofi
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein purification and stability
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Keywords
feature selection, monoclonal antibodies, nearest neighbors, support vector regression, linear regression, antibody development, protein stability
MeSH terms
Machine Learning, Support Vector Machine

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