Improving therapeutic efficacy of a complement receptor by structure-based affinity maturation
| Autor: | Sachdev S. Sidhu, Jason Chinn, Lauri Diehl, Menno van Lookeren Campagne, Laura DeForge, Bing Li, Wyne P. Lee, Christian Wiesmann, Lizette Sturgeon, Hongkang Xi, Robert F. Kelley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Phage display
Protein subunit Recombinant Fusion Proteins Complement Pathway Alternative Mutation Missense Complement receptor Biology Biochemistry Affinity maturation Mice Structure-Activity Relationship Animals Humans Receptor Molecular Biology Complement component 5 Mice Inbred BALB C Arthritis Macrophages Complement C5 Cell Biology Molecular biology Cell biology Complement system Protein Structure Tertiary Disease Models Animal Amino Acid Substitution Complement C3b Protein Structure and Folding Alternative complement pathway Receptors Complement 3b Rabbits |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of biological chemistry. 284(51) |
| ISSN: | 1083-351X |
| Popis: | CRIg is a recently discovered complement C3 receptor expressed on a subpopulation of tissue-resident macrophages. The extracellular IgV domain of CRIg (CRIg-ECD) holds considerable promise as a potential therapeutic because it selectively inhibits the alternative pathway of complement by binding to C3b and inhibiting proteolytic activation of C3 and C5. However, CRIg binds weakly to the convertase subunit C3b (K(D) = 1.1 microm), and thus a relatively high concentration of protein is required to reach nearly complete complement inhibition. To improve therapeutic efficacy while minimizing risk of immunogenicity, we devised a phage display strategy to evolve a high affinity CRIg-ECD variant with a minimal number of mutations. Using the crystal structure of CRIg in complex with C3b as a guide for library design, we isolated a CRIg-ECD double mutant (Q64R/M86Y, CRIg-v27) that showed increased binding affinity and improved complement inhibitory activity relative to CRIg-ECD. In a mouse model of arthritis, treatment with a Fc fusion of CRIg-v27 resulted in a significant reduction in clinical scores compared with treatment with an Fc fusion of CRIg-ECD. This study clearly illustrates how phage display technology and structural information can be combined to generate proteins with nearly natural sequences that act as potent complement inhibitors with greatly improved therapeutic efficacy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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