An attractive approach to target intracellular macromolecular interfaces is to design small high affinity proteins. In this manuscript a stable, autonomous, human derived non-immunogenic, disulphide-free VH domain, has been engineered for intracellular expression studies. VH domains can be designed to possess a large dynamic repertoire of binders, as opposed to other scaffolds types that are highly rigid and possess fewer sites of random variation. Picomolar inhibitors were identified using phage display against the eIF4F complex, which is commonly hyper-activated in many cancers. These molecules were also shown to impair cellular proliferation and to reduce the expression of malignancy related proteins. Structural characterization elucidated that these VH domains bound eIF4E at the eIF4G interaction interface via a novel binding pose. Molecules able to mimic this pose and interfere with the eIF4F complex are potentially important for wide-ranging tumour therapy applications.
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Yes there is potential Competing Interest. P.N., I.A., K.H. and T.C. are shareholders of DotBio Pte. Ltd. I.A. K.H., A.H.E., A.P. and Y.X.C., are employees of DotBio Pte. Ltd. Some of the work described in this paper is the subject of the following patent applications: WO2016072938A1, US20170320934A1, JP2018500879A, EP3215537A4, and CN107001477A.
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Posted 16 Mar, 2021
Posted 16 Mar, 2021
An attractive approach to target intracellular macromolecular interfaces is to design small high affinity proteins. In this manuscript a stable, autonomous, human derived non-immunogenic, disulphide-free VH domain, has been engineered for intracellular expression studies. VH domains can be designed to possess a large dynamic repertoire of binders, as opposed to other scaffolds types that are highly rigid and possess fewer sites of random variation. Picomolar inhibitors were identified using phage display against the eIF4F complex, which is commonly hyper-activated in many cancers. These molecules were also shown to impair cellular proliferation and to reduce the expression of malignancy related proteins. Structural characterization elucidated that these VH domains bound eIF4E at the eIF4G interaction interface via a novel binding pose. Molecules able to mimic this pose and interfere with the eIF4F complex are potentially important for wide-ranging tumour therapy applications.
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