Article
Increasing the melting temperature of VHH with the in silico free energy score.
Scientific reports - 25 Mar 2023
Tomimoto Yusuke, Yamazaki Rika, Shirai Hiroki
Abstract excerpt
VHH, the antigen-binding fragment of a heavy chain-only antibody, is a useful component of antibody-based therapeutics. Thermal stability, represented by the melting temperature (Tm), is one of the key factors affecting the developability of antibody-based therapeutics. In this study, we examined whether the in silico free energy score dStability can be used to design mutants with improved Tm compared to the...
Topics
- Temperature
- Entropy
- Antibodies
- Mutation
- Mutagenesis
