1. A resource of high-quality and versatile nanobodies for drug delivery
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Zhuolun Shen, Yufei Xiang, Sandra Vergara, Apeng Chen, Zhengyun Xiao, Ulises Santiago, Changzhong Jin, Zhe Sang, Jiadi Luo, Kong Chen, Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Carlos Camacho, Guillermo Calero, Baoli Hu, and Yi Shi
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Drug Delivery System ,Biochemical Engineering ,Biotechnology ,Structural Biology ,Proteomics ,Science - Abstract
Summary: Therapeutic and diagnostic efficacies of small biomolecules and chemical compounds are hampered by suboptimal pharmacokinetics. Here, we developed a repertoire of robust and high-affinity antihuman serum albumin nanobodies (NbHSA) that can be readily fused to small biologics for half-life extension. We characterized the thermostability, binding kinetics, and cross-species reactivity of NbHSAs, mapped their epitopes, and structurally resolved a tetrameric HSA-Nb complex. We parallelly determined the half-lives of a cohort of selected NbHSAs in an HSA mouse model by quantitative proteomics. Compared to short-lived control nanobodies, the half-lives of NbHSAs were drastically prolonged by 771-fold. NbHSAs have distinct and diverse pharmacokinetics, positively correlating with their albumin binding affinities at the endosomal pH. We then generated stable and highly bioactive NbHSA-cytokine fusion constructs “Duraleukin” and demonstrated Duraleukin's high preclinical efficacy for cancer treatment in a melanoma model. This high-quality and versatile Nb toolkit will help tailor drug half-life to specific medical needs.
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- 2021
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