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ArticleMolecular pharmaceutics2025

A Pharmacophore-Based Method for Rapid and Accurate Virtual Screening of Antibody Libraries against Antigens.

Christopher I Williams, Farbod Mahmoudinobar, David C Thompson, J Wade Davis, Sandeep Kumar

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Article in Molecular pharmaceutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Christopher I WilliamsChemical Computing Group, 1010 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2R7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5428-2742
Farbod MahmoudinobarMolecule Design and Modeling Group, Computational Science, Research and Early Development, Moderna Therapeutics, 325 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
David C ThompsonChemical Computing Group, 1010 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2R7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8050-3852
J Wade DavisMolecule Design and Modeling Group, Computational Science, Research and Early Development, Moderna Therapeutics, 325 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Sandeep KumarMolecule Design and Modeling Group, Computational Science, Research and Early Development, Moderna Therapeutics, 325 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2840-6398

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Abstract

Antibody-based biotherapeutics make up an important class of biopharmaceuticals. However, their discovery requires resource- and time-consuming laboratory processes. To ameliorate this situation, several computational methods were used to predict the structures of antibody:antigen complexes (Ab:Ag) and identify potential binders, in-silico. However, there is still a general lack of rapid virtual screening methods capable of screening large antibody libraries against a given antigen or group of antigens. In this work, we explore the application of a successful small-molecule drug discovery strategy and adapt pharmacophore-based virtual screening to the world of antibody discovery. Using a nonredundant data set of 874 Ab:Ag complexes, we have developed an automated method to create pharmacophores from the antibody complementarity determining regions. Our method is 98.6% (862 out of 874) successful at reproducing the ground truth, i.e., it can recapitulate the parental antibody:antigen complexes. In a benchmarking comparison with cognate docking, using 33 Ab:Ag complexes of

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AntibodiesAntigensAntigen-Antibody ComplexComplementarity Determining RegionsDrug DiscoveryDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHumansMolecular Docking SimulationPharmacophoreSmall Molecule LibrariesAntibodiesAntigen-Antibody ComplexAntigensComplementarity Determining RegionsSmall Molecule Librariesantibodyantigenbiotherapeuticsdrug designpharmacophorevirtual screening

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PMID40694045
PMCPMC12326342

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