基于结构的方法预测治疗性抗体中的脱酰胺和异构化位点。
Predicting deamidation and isomerization sites in therapeutic antibodies using structure-based approaches.
机构信息
Early Stage Pharmaceutical Development Biologicals, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach/Riss, Germany.
In Silico Team, Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach/Riss, Germany.
出版信息
MAbs. 2024 Jan-Dec;16(1):2333436. doi: 10.1080/19420862.2024.2333436. Epub 2024 Mar 28.
Asparagine (Asn) deamidation and aspartic acid (Asp) isomerization are common degradation pathways that affect the stability of therapeutic antibodies. These modifications can pose a significant challenge in the development of biopharmaceuticals. As such, the early engineering and selection of chemically stable monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) can substantially mitigate the risk of subsequent failure. In this study, we introduce a novel in silico approach for predicting deamidation and isomerization sites in therapeutic antibodies by analyzing the structural environment surrounding asparagine and aspartate residues. The resulting quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was trained using previously published forced degradation data from 57 clinical-stage mAbs. The predictive accuracy of the model was evaluated for four different states of the protein structure: (1) static homology models, (2) enhancing low-frequency vibrational modes during short molecular dynamics (MD) runs, (3) a combination of (2) with a protonation state reassignment, and (4) conventional full-atomistic MD simulations. The most effective QSAR model considered the accessible surface area (ASA) of the residue, the pKa value of the backbone amide, and the root mean square deviations of both the alpha carbon and the side chain. The accuracy was further enhanced by incorporating the QSAR model into a decision tree, which also includes empirical information about the sequential successor and the position in the protein. The resulting model has been implemented as a plugin named "Forecasting Reactivity of Isomerization and Deamidation in Antibodies" in MOE software, completed with a user-friendly graphical interface to facilitate its use.
天冬酰胺(Asn)脱酰胺和天冬氨酸(Asp)异构化是影响治疗性抗体稳定性的常见降解途径。这些修饰可能会给生物制药的发展带来重大挑战。因此,早期对化学稳定的单克隆抗体(mAb)进行工程设计和选择,可以大大降低后续失败的风险。在这项研究中,我们通过分析天冬酰胺和天冬氨酸残基周围的结构环境,引入了一种预测治疗性抗体中脱酰胺和异构化位点的新型计算方法。该定量构效关系(QSAR)模型使用 57 种临床阶段 mAb 的先前发表的强制降解数据进行了训练。该模型的预测准确性针对蛋白质结构的四种不同状态进行了评估:(1)静态同源模型,(2)在短分子动力学(MD)运行期间增强低频振动模式,(3)(2)与质子化状态重新分配相结合,以及(4)常规全原子 MD 模拟。考虑到残基的可及表面积(ASA)、骨架酰胺的 pKa 值以及α碳和侧链的均方根偏差,最有效的 QSAR 模型。通过将 QSAR 模型纳入决策树中,进一步提高了准确性,该决策树还包括关于序列后继者和蛋白质位置的经验信息。由此产生的模型已作为名为“预测抗体中异构化和脱酰胺反应性”的 MOE 软件插件实现,具有用户友好的图形界面,便于使用。