Abstract
Domain antibodies (dAbs) are promising candidate therapeutics and diagnostics. Efficient selection of novel potent dAbs with potential for clinical utility is critically dependent on the library diversity and size, and the scaffold stability. We have previously constructed a large (size ∼2.5 × 10 10) dAb library by grafting human antibody heavy chain complementarity determining regions (CDRs) 2 and 3 (H2s, H3s) into their cognate positions in a human heavy chain variable domain (VH) scaffold and mutagenizing the CDR1 (H1). High-affinity binders against some antigens were selected from this library but panning against others was not very successful likely due to limited diversity. We have hypothesized that by grafting highly variable, both in length and composition, human CDRs into non-cognate positions, the dAb library diversity could be significantly increased and the library would allow for more efficient selection of high-affinity antibodies against some targets. To test this hypothesis we designed a novel type of dAb library containing CDRs in non-cognate positions. It is based on our previous library where H1 was replaced by a library of human light chain CDR3s (L3s) thus combining three most diversified fragments (L3, H3 and H2) in one VH scaffold. This large (size ∼10 10) phage-displayed library was highly diversified as determined by analyzing the sequences of 126 randomly selected clones. Novel high-affinity dAbs against components of the human insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system were selected from the new library that could not be selected from the previously constructed one. Most of the newly identified dAbs were highly soluble, expressible, monomeric and may have potential as candidate cancer therapeutics. The new library could be used not only for the selection of such dAbs thus complementing existing libraries but also as a research tool for the exploration of the mechanisms determining folding and stability of human antibody domains.
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