Kanodia J S, Gadkar K, Bumbaca D, Zhang Y, Tong R K, Luk W, Hoyte K, Lu Y, Wildsmith K R, Couch J A, Watts R J, Dennis M S, Ernst J A, Scearce-Levie K, Atwal J K, Ramanujan S, Joseph S
Preclinical and Translational Pharmacokinetics Department, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Antibody Engineering Department, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol. 2016 May;5(5):283-91. doi: 10.1002/psp4.12081. Epub 2016 May 17.
Anti-transferrin receptor (TfR)-based bispecific antibodies have shown promise for boosting antibody uptake in the brain. Nevertheless, there are limited data on the molecular properties, including affinity required for successful development of TfR-based therapeutics. A complex nonmonotonic relationship exists between affinity of the anti-TfR arm and brain uptake at therapeutically relevant doses. However, the quantitative nature of this relationship and its translatability to humans is heretofore unexplored. Therefore, we developed a mechanistic pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) model for bispecific anti-TfR/BACE1 antibodies that accounts for antibody-TfR interactions at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) as well as the pharmacodynamic (PD) effect of anti-BACE1 arm. The calibrated model correctly predicted the optimal anti-TfR affinity required to maximize brain exposure of therapeutic antibodies in the cynomolgus monkey and was scaled to predict the optimal affinity of anti-TfR bispecifics in humans. Thus, this model provides a framework for testing critical translational predictions for anti-TfR bispecific antibodies, including choice of candidate molecule for clinical development.
基于抗转铁蛋白受体(TfR)的双特异性抗体已显示出在促进抗体进入大脑方面的潜力。然而,关于分子特性的数据有限,包括基于TfR的治疗药物成功开发所需的亲和力。在治疗相关剂量下,抗TfR臂的亲和力与脑摄取之间存在复杂的非单调关系。然而,这种关系的定量性质及其对人类的可转化性迄今尚未得到探索。因此,我们开发了一种双特异性抗TfR/BACE1抗体的机制性药代动力学-药效学(PK-PD)模型,该模型考虑了血脑屏障(BBB)处的抗体-TfR相互作用以及抗BACE1臂的药效学(PD)效应。校准后的模型正确预测了食蟹猴中使治疗性抗体脑暴露最大化所需的最佳抗TfR亲和力,并进行了缩放以预测人类中抗TfR双特异性抗体的最佳亲和力。因此,该模型为测试抗TfR双特异性抗体的关键转化预测提供了一个框架,包括临床开发候选分子的选择。