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Parameters and determinants of responses to selection in antibody libraries

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Antibody repertoires contain binders to nearly any target antigen. The sequences of these antibodies differ mostly at few sites located on the surface of a scaffold that itself consists of much less varied amino acids. What is the impact of this scaffold on the response to selection of a repertoire? To gauge this impact, we carried out quantitative phage display experiments with three antibody libraries based on distinct scaffolds harboring the same diversity at randomized sites, which we selected for binding to four arbitrary targets. We first show that the response to selection of an antibody library is captured by a simple and measurable parameter with direct physical and information-theoretic interpretations. Second, we identify a major determinant of this parameter which is encoded in the scaffold, its degree of evolutionary maturation. Antibodies undergo an accelerated evolutionary process, called affinity maturation, to improve their affinity to a given target antigen as part of the adaptive immune response. We find that libraries of antibodies built around such maturated scaffolds have a lower response to selection to other arbitrary targets than libraries built around naïve scaffolds of germline origin. Our results are a first step towards quantifying and controlling the evolutionary potential of biomolecules.
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hal-03190048 , version 1 (06-11-2020)
hal-03190048 , version 2 (06-10-2021)

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Steven Schulz, Sébastien Boyer, Matteo Smerlak, Simona Cocco, Remi Monasson, et al.. Parameters and determinants of responses to selection in antibody libraries. 2020. ⟨hal-03190048v1⟩
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