Half-Life Extension of Therapeutic Antibodies
A special issue of Antibodies (ISSN 2073-4468).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2022) | Viewed by 428
Special Issue Editor
Interests: therapeutic proteins; antibodies; Fc receptor biology; FcRn; antibody recycling mechanism; mechanism of action; affinity determination technologies; surface plasmon response; affinity column chromatography; protein folding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The number of therapeutic antibodies in clinical development has been continuously increasing over the last several decades. Monoclonal therapeutic antibodies are established as classical immunoglobulin G (IgG)-like scaffolds such as more complex formats with novel functions and differentiated mechanisms of action. IgG1, the most abundant isotype, has the longest half-life amongst the immunoglobulins due to the pH-dependent active FcRn-mediated recycling mechanism. This Special Issue of Antibodies aims to collect original manuscripts and reviews covering the attempts made so far to engineer IgG-based formats for significant half-life extensions, including the research activity that was needed to understand this mechanism in more detail to repair unexpected fast clearance of complex novel IgG-based formats.
Dr. Tilman Schlothauer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- FcRn recycling;
- half-life extension;
- complex Fc based formats;
- modulating clearance
