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Human antibodies from transgenic animals.

Lonberg, Nils·2005·Nature Biotechnology

Abstract

Laboratory mice provide a ready source of diverse, high-affinity and high-specificity monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). However, development of rodent antibodies as therapeutic agents has been impaired by the inherent immunogenicity of these molecules. One technology that has been explored to generate low immunogenicity mAbs for in vivo therapy involves the use of transgenic mice expressing repertoires of human antibody gene sequences. This technology has now been exploited by over a dozen different pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies toward developing new therapeutic mAbs, and currently at least 33 different drugs in clinical testing--including several in pivotal trials--contain variable regions encoded by human sequences from transgenic mice. The emerging data from these trials provide an early glimpse of the safety and efficacy issues for these molecules. Nevertheless, actual product approval, the biggest challenge so far, is required to fully validate this technology as a drug discovery tool. In the future, it may be possible to extend this technology beyond rodents and use transgenic farm animals to directly generate and produce human sequence polyclonal sera.

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Authors
Lonberg, N.
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2005-09
Volume
23
Issue
9
Pages
1117-1125
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2054383673
Cited by
434
References
110
Citations by year
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FWCI
4.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biotechnology › Transgenic Plants and Applications
Keywords
humanized monoclonal antibody, transgenic mice, monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic antibodies, immunogenicity, immunoglobulin variable region, antibody drug development
MeSH terms
Animals, Antibodies, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Biotechnology, Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Immunoglobulins, Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains, Immunoglobulin Light Chains, Mice, Transgenic, Drug Delivery Systems, Animals, Genetically Modified, Mice

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