Journal
ADVANCED SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202000818
Keywords
combinatorial antibody library; full agonists; function-guided selection; leptin receptors; replacement therapy
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31500632]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [16DZ1910200]
- JPB Foundation
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Growth factor deficiency in adulthood constitutes a distinct clinical syndrome with significant morbidities including abnormal body composition, reduced energy, affective disturbances, dyslipidemia, and increased cardiovascular risk. Protein replacement therapies using recombinant proteins or enzymes represent the only approved treatment. Combinatorial antibodies have shown great promise as a new class of therapeutic molecules because they act as mechanism-based antibodies with both agonist and antagonist activities. Using leptin, a key hormone in energy metabolism, as an example, a function-guided approach is developed to select combinatorial antibodies with high potency and full agonist activity that substitute natural growth factors in vivo. The identified antibody shows identical biochemical properties and cellular profiles as leptin, and rescues leptin-deficiency in ob/ob mice. Remarkably, the antibody activates leptin receptors that are otherwise nonfunctional because of mutations (L372A and A409E). Combinatorial antibodies have significant advantages over recombinant proteins for chronical usage in terms of immunological tolerance and biological stability.
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