Biochemical patterns of antibody polyreactivity revealed through a bioinformatics-based analysis of CDR loops.

ABSTRACT: Antibodies are critical components of adaptive immunity, binding with high affinity to pathogenic epitopes. Antibodies undergo rigorous selection to achieve this high affinity, yet some maintain an additional basal level of low affinity, broad reactivity to diverse epitopes, a phenomenon termed 'polyreactivity'. While polyreactivity has been observed in antibodies isolated from various immunological niches, the biophysical properties that allow for promiscuity in a protein selected for high-affinity binding to a single target remain unclear. Using a database of over 1000 polyreactive and non-polyreactive antibody sequences, we created a bioinformatic pipeline to isolate key determinants of polyreactivity. These determinants, which include an increase in inter-loop crosstalk and a propensit

SUBMITTER: Boughter CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755423 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature