Monoclonal antibody (mAb) drugs are clinically important for the treatment of various diseases. TTAC-0001 is under development as a new anti-cancer antibody drug targeting VEGFR-2. As the less severe toxicity of TTAC-0001 compared to Bevacizumab, likely due to the decreased in vivo half-life, seems to be related to its structural flexibility, it is important to map the exact flexible regions. Although the 13C/15N-labeled protein is required for NMR analyses, it is difficult to obtain antibody fragments (Fab and scFv) containing disulfide bonds through general cytosolic expression in Escherichia coli (E. coli). Here, we notably increased the periplasmic expression of the 13C/15N-labeled TTAC-0001-Fab (13C/15N-TTAC-Fab) through simple isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG)-induction at an increased optical density (1.5 OD600nm). Through NMR triple resonance experiments, two loop insertions (LI-1 between the VH and CH1; LI-2 between the VL and CL) were confirmed to be highly flexible. The additional LIs could be another way to engineer the antibody by changing the pharmacokinetic properties.
[NMR paper] Mapping Antibody Epitopes by Solution NMR Spectroscopy: Practical Considerations.
Mapping Antibody Epitopes by Solution NMR Spectroscopy: Practical Considerations.
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Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1785:29-51
Authors: Simonelli L, Pedotti M, Bardelli M, Jurt S, Zerbe O, Varani L
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Identifying an epitope, the region of the antigen in contact with an antibody, is useful in both basic and pharmaceutical research, as well as in vaccine design. Solution NMR spectroscopy is particularly well suited to the residue...
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Effect of the Flexible Regions of the Oncoprotein Mouse Double Minute X on Inhibitor Binding Affinity
Effect of the Flexible Regions of the Oncoprotein Mouse Double Minute X on Inhibitor Binding Affinity
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Biochemistry
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DynamicDescriptions of Highly Flexible Moleculesfrom NMR Dipolar Couplings: Physical Basis and Limitations
DynamicDescriptions of Highly Flexible Moleculesfrom NMR Dipolar Couplings: Physical Basis and Limitations
Nicola Salvi, Loi?c Salmon and Martin Blackledge
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[NMR paper] Mapping monoclonal antibody structure by 2D 13C NMR at natural abundance.
Mapping monoclonal antibody structure by 2D 13C NMR at natural abundance.
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Anal Chem. 2015 Apr 7;87(7):3556-61
Authors: Arbogast LW, Brinson RG, Marino JP
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Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) represent an important and rapidly growing class of biotherapeutics. Correct folding of a mAb is critical for drug efficacy, while misfolding...
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â??CON-CONâ?? assignment strategy for highly flexible intrinsically disordered proteins
â??CON-CONâ?? assignment strategy for highly flexible intrinsically disordered proteins
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are a class of highly flexible proteins whose characterization by NMR spectroscopy is complicated by severe spectral overlaps. The development of experiments designed to facilitate the sequence-specific assignment procedure is thus very important to improve the tools for the characterization of IDPs and thus to be able to focus on IDPs of increasing size and complexity. Here, we present and describe the...
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[NMR paper] Epitope mapping of gibberellin to the anti-gibberellin A(4) monoclonal antibody by sa
Epitope mapping of gibberellin to the anti-gibberellin A(4) monoclonal antibody by saturation transfer difference NMR spectroscopy.
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Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2003 Aug 1;307(3):498-502
Authors: Murata T, Hemmi H, Nakajima M, Yoshida M, Yamaguchi I
Saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy is a promising tool for rapid screening, identifying ligands that interact with a target protein,...
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[NMR paper] Mapping the interacting regions between troponins T and C. Binding of TnT and TnI pep
Mapping the interacting regions between troponins T and C. Binding of TnT and TnI peptides to TnC and NMR mapping of the TnT-binding site on TnC.
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J Biol Chem. 2001 Sep 28;276(39):36606-12
Authors: Blumenschein TM, Tripet BP, Hodges RS, Sykes BD
Muscular contraction is triggered by an increase in calcium concentration, which is transmitted to the contractile proteins by the troponin...
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[NMR paper] NMR experiments for resonance assignments of 13C, 15N doubly-labeled flexible polypep
NMR experiments for resonance assignments of 13C, 15N doubly-labeled flexible polypeptides: application to the human prion protein hPrP(23-230).
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J Biomol NMR. 2000 Feb;16(2):127-38
Authors: Liu A, Riek R, Wider G, von Schroetter C, Zahn R, Wüthrich K
A combination of three heteronuclear three-dimensional NMR experiments tailored for sequential resonance assignments in uniformly 15N,...