Looking for therapeutic antibodies in next generation sequencing repositories
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Recently it has become possible to query the great diversity of natural antibody repertoires using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). These methods are capable of producing millions of sequences in a single experiment. Here we compare Clinical Stage Therapeutic antibodies to the ∼1b sequences from 60 independent sequencing studies in the Observed Antibody Space Database. Of the 242 post Phase I antibodies, we find 16 with sequence identity matches of 95% or better for both heavy and light chains. There are also 54 perfect matches to therapeutic CDR-H3 regions in the NGS outputs, suggesting a nontrivial amount of convergence between naturally observed sequences and those developed artificially. This has potential implications for both the discovery of antibody therapeutics and the legal protection of commercial antibodies.
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Many therapeutic CDRH3 loops can be found in naturally sourced NGS datasets, indicating a certain degree of convergence between antibodies raised experimentally and naturally occurring ones.
“Furthermore, many therapeutic CDRH3 loops can be found in naturally sourced NGS datasets, indicating a certain degree of convergence between antibodies raised experimentally and naturally occurring ones [225].”
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- Authors
- Krawczyk, K., Raybould, M., Kovaltsuk, A., & Deane, C. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Krawczyk, Konrad
- Venue
- mAbs
- Publisher
- openRxiv
- Published
- 2019-03-09
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1197-1205
- ISSN
- 1942-0862 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6748601
- OpenAlex
- W2950135969
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 3.47
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- cc-by
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- mAbs (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (1795796)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (1801486, BB/M011224/1)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods
- Keywords
- therapeutic antibodies, immunoglobulin gene repertoire
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Immunoglobulins, Immunotherapy, Complementarity Determining Regions, Databases, Genetic, Immunity, Humoral, Data Mining, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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