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IN VITRO ENZYMATIC POLYSIALYLATION OF THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES USING ENGINEERED GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES

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Fu_cornell_0058O_11236.pdf (5.77 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/ekaw-na06
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/110400
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Author
Fu, Jingxin
Abstract

Antibody-based immunotherapy is one of the most significant medical advancement of the 21st century. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) and their conjugation variants are found to be effective in treating a myriad of conditions including autoimmune and cancer diseases. mAb is a complex biomolecule consisting of multiple polypeptides and post-translational modifications including disulfide bond and N-linked protein glycosylation. Such complexity contributes to a challenge in biomanufacturing, quality assessment, and storage of the mAb, which leads to a high cost of antibody therapy. Hence one of the major objectives of the mAb engineering is to increase its circulating half-life which will help to both reduce therapy cost and improve health care quality. In this work, we proposed using a cell-free glycoengineering strategy to enhance therapeutic antibody half-life. We employed engineered sialyltransferases derived from Campylobacter jejuni and Neisseria meningitidis to extend IgG-Fc N-glycans at the non-reducing end with the polysialic acid polymer. Using our optimized one-pot two-stage biosynthesis protocol, therapeutic antibody Herceptin modified with polysialic acid structure was efficiently produced and structurally validated. The ongoing works including a more extensive structural characterization as well as ex vivo functional assays will be discussed. Taken together, we anticipate cell-free glycoengineering technology producing polysialylated IgG will provide an attractive route for producing therapeutic mAb with enhanced stability and circulating half-life.

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81 pages
Date Issued
2021-08
Keywords
antibody half-life
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cell-free glycoengineering
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glycosylation
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polysialylation
Committee Chair
DeLisa, Matthew
Committee Member
Alabi, Christopher Akinleye
Degree Discipline
Chemical Engineering
Degree Name
M.S., Chemical Engineering
Degree Level
Master of Science
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15160283

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