Journal
MABS
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 466-474Publisher
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/mabs.20652
Keywords
serum half-life; CH2 domain; IgG(1); protein scaffolds; FcRn
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- Research Corporation Technologies
- CRADA
- NCI
- RCT
- Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research
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Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies have several advantages over small molecule drugs and small proteins and peptides, including a long serum half-life. The long serum half-life of IgG is due, in part, to its molecular weight (150 kDa) and its ability to bind FcRn. Both the CH2 and CH3 domains of Fc are involved in FcRn binding. Antibody fragments and antibody-like scaffolds have improved penetration into tissues due to their small size, but they commonly have serum half-lifes of less than one hour. The human CH2 domain (CH2D) of IgG1 retains a portion of the FcRn binding site, is amenable to modification for target binding, and may represent the smallest antibody-like scaffold retaining a relatively long serum half-life. We describe here the generation of a dimeric CH2D (dCH2D) and determination of its pharmacokinetics (PK), as well as the PK of wild-type monomeric CH2D (mCH2D) and a short stabilized CH2D variant (ssCH2D) in normal B6 mice, human FcRn transgenic mice and cynomolgus macaques. The elimination half-life of dCH2D was 9.9, 10.4 and 11.2 h, and that of ssCH2D was 13.1, 9.9 and 11.4 h, in B6 mice, hFcRn mice and cynomolgus macaques, respectively. These half-lives were slightly longer than that of mCH2D (6.9 and 8.8 h) in B6 and hFcRn mice, respectively. These data demonstrate that engineered CH2D-based variants have relatively long serum half-lives, making them a unique scaffold suitable for development of targeted therapeutics.
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