Elucidating key determinants of engineered scFv antibody in MMP-9 binding using high throughput screening and machine learning
Kalantar, M.; Kalanther, I.; Kumar, S.; Buxton, E. K.; Raeeszadeh-Sarmazdeh, M.
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An imbalance in matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) regulation can lead to numerous diseases, including neurological disorders, cancer, and pre-term labor. Engineering single-chain antibody fragments (scFvs) Targeting MMP-9 to develop novel therapeutics for such diseases is desirable. We screened a synthetic scFv antibody library displayed on the yeast surface for binding improvement to MMP-9 using FACS (fluorescent-activated cell sorting). The scFv antibody clones isolated after FACS showed improvement in binding to MMP-9 compared to the endogenous inhibitor. To understand molecular determinants of binding between engineered scFv antibody variants and MMP-9, next-generation DNA sequencing, and computational protein structure analysis were used. Additionally, a deep-learning language model was trained on the synthetic library to predict the binding of scFv variants using their CDR-H3 sequences.
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