| Literature DB >> 19154157 |
Russell N Johnson1, Pavla Kopecková, Jindrich Kopecek.
Abstract
Several drug delivery designs combine synthetic drug carriers with covalently conjugated targeting moieties. Such modifications of monoclonal antibodies (mAb), or their Fab' fragments, inevitably result in diminished affinity for their targeted tissue. In an attempt to overcome this limitation, high molecular weight, branched N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymers were synthesized and conjugated with Fab' fragments of the anti-CD20 antibody, 1F5. This produced multivalent conjugates with varying valency (amount of Fab' per macromolecule) targeted to the B-cell antigen CD20. Evaluation of a multivalent effect was done by determining the apparent K(D) at low concentrations of conjugates, the Sips heterogeneity factor, a, and the binding enhancement factors of each construct. The results clearly indicated that multivalency could improve the affinity of the HPMA copolymer-Fab' conjugates to that of unconjugated mAb.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19154157 PMCID: PMC3136133 DOI: 10.1021/bc800351m
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioconjug Chem ISSN: 1043-1802 Impact factor: 4.774