From Antibody Fragments to Therapeutic Manufacturing: Challenges and the Future of Antibody Synthesis
A special issue of Antibodies (ISSN 2073-4468).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2021) | Viewed by 808
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antibody discovery; antibody structure prediction and analysis; protein mutational analysis; antibody design; protein design; deep learning; machine learning; structural biology
2. Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 27232, USA
Interests: antibody therapeutics; infectious diseases; viruses; antibody generation and development; biomarker development; biotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the explosive growth in the antibody therapeutics market comes the increasing need to create higher-quality antibody proteins using time- and cost-effective strategies. Protein synthesis is a rapidly evolving field with a broad diversity of techniques. Antibody protein synthesis, particularly, requires constant innovation to create better research tools, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Expression systems, scale, and techniques vary widely from recombinant expression in prokaryotes to mammalian cell culture expression, cell-free expression, monoclonal vs. polyclonal, fragments, isotypes, multi-specifics, library generation, and many others.
The Special Issue “Form Antibody Fragments to Therapeutic Manufacturing: Challenges and the Future of Antibody Synthesis” aims to kindle discussion of current and innovative methods of antibody production. We invite experts to share manuscripts describing their choice of antibody synthesis method, advantages, disadvantages, and innovations from preclinical proof-of-concept to large-scale manufacturing of antibody or antibody-like proteins intended for research, diagnostics, or therapeutic applications.
Dr. Monica BerrondoProf. Dr. Robert H. Carnahan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Antibody fragment
- Antibody expression
- Multi-specific antibodies
- Cell-free protein synthesis
- Therapeutic manufacturing
- Immunization
- Therapeutics
- Diagnostics
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