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SUBMITTER: Rizk SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5429742 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rizk Shahir S SS Mukherjee Somnath S Koide Akiko A Koide Shohei S Kossiakoff Anthony A AA
Scientific reports 20170403 1
We have utilized a high-diversity phage display library to engineer antibody fragments (Fabs) that can modulate the activity of the enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1). We show that a conformation-specific Fab can reactivate an IDH1 mutant associated with brain tumors. The results show that this strategy is a first step towards developing "activator drugs" for a large number of genetic disorders where mutations have disrupted protein function. ...[more]