Engineering Highly Homogenous Tetravalent IgGs with Enhanced Sperm Agglutination Potency
Shrestha, B.; Schaefer, A.; Chavez, E. C.; Kopp, A. J.; Jacobs, T. M.; Moench, T. R.; Lai, S.
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Millions of women avoid using available contraceptives and risk unintended pregnancies every year, due to perceived and/or real side-effects associated with the use of exogenous hormones. Naturally occurring anti-sperm antibodies can prevent fertilization in immune infertile women by limiting sperm permeation through mucus, particularly multivalent antibodies such as sIgA that offers robust agglutination potencies. Unfortunately, sIgA remains challenging to produce in large quantities and easily aggregates. Here, we designed two tetravalent anti-sperm IgGs with a Fab domain previously isolated from an immune infertile woman. Both constructs possess at least 4-fold greater agglutination potency and induced much more rapid sperm agglutination than the parent IgG while exhibiting comparable production yields and identical thermostability as the parent IgG. These tetravalent IgGs offer promise for non-hormonal contraception and underscore the multimerization of IgG as a promising strategy to improve existing mAb therapeutics.
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