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Karl Dane Wittrup

Professor of Chemical Engineering & Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of …
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Yeast surface display for screening combinatorial polypeptide libraries

ET Boder, KD Wittrup - Nature biotechnology, 1997 - nature.com
Display on the yeast cell wall is well suited for engineering mammalian cell-surface and
secreted proteins (eg, antibodies, receptors, cytokines) that require endoplasmic reticulum-…

Yeast surface display for protein engineering and characterization

SA Gai, KD Wittrup - Current opinion in structural biology, 2007 - Elsevier
… display, K d YSD , and other methods, K d other . scFv binding to fluorescein; K d other
determined by fluorescence quenching. scFv binding botulinum neurotoxin type A; K d other …

Flow-cytometric isolation of human antibodies from a nonimmune Saccharomyces cerevisiae surface display library

…, D Colby, J Swers, C Graff, HS Wiley, KD Wittrup - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
A nonimmune library of 10 9 human antibody scFv fragments has been cloned and expressed
on the surface of yeast, and nanomolar-affinity scFvs routinely obtained by magnetic bead …

A modeling analysis of the effects of molecular size and binding affinity on tumor targeting

MM Schmidt, KD Wittrup - Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2009 - AACR
… Schmidt, K. Dane Wittrup; A modeling analysis of the effects of molecular size and binding
affinity on tumor targeting. Mol Cancer Ther 1 October 2009; 8 (10): 2861–2871. https://doi.org/…

Practical theoretic guidance for the design of tumor-targeting agents

KD Wittrup, GM Thurber, MM Schmidt, JJ Rhoden - Methods in enzymology, 2012 - Elsevier
… 2 P R cap R Krogh 2 ( e − k clear t − e − k e t ) k e − k clear where [Ab] tumor is the antibody
… capillary), k clear is the effective first-order systemic clearance rate constant, and k e is the …

Directed evolution of antibody fragments with monovalent femtomolar antigen-binding affinity

…, KS Midelfort, KD Wittrup - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Single-chain antibody mutants have been evolved in vitro with antigen-binding equilibrium
dissociation constant K d = 48 fM and slower dissociation kinetics (half-time > 5 days) than …

Isolating and engineering human antibodies using yeast surface display

…, BJ Hackel, SL Sazinsky, SM Lippow, KD Wittrup - Nature protocols, 2006 - nature.com
… Typical scFv k on values are about 1 × 10 5 M −1 s −1 , and k off = K d × k on can be
calculated from the estimated K d of the sample. However, k on can increase substantially during …

Antibody tumor penetration: transport opposed by systemic and antigen-mediated clearance

GM Thurber, MM Schmidt, KD Wittrup - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Antibodies have proven to be effective agents in cancer imaging and therapy. One of the major
challenges still facing the field is the heterogeneous distribution of these agents in tumors …

Eradication of large established tumors in mice by combination immunotherapy that engages innate and adaptive immune responses

…, H Suh, JR Cochran, DA Lauffenburger, KD Wittrup… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Checkpoint blockade with antibodies specific for cytotoxic T lymphocyte–associated protein (CTLA)-4
or programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1; also known as PD-1) elicits durable tumor …

[25] Yeast surface display for directed evolution of protein expression, affinity, and stability

ET Boder, KD Wittrup - Methods in enzymology, 2000 - Elsevier
The described protocols enable thorough screening of polypeptide libraries with high
confidence in the isolation of improved clones. It should be emphasized that the protocols have …