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Luna, J., García, E. (2022). Diseño in silico de nanoanticuerpos contra la región RBD de la proteína spike del SARS-CoV-2 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13647
Luna, J., García, E. Diseño in silico de nanoanticuerpos contra la región RBD de la proteína spike del SARS-CoV-2 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13647
@misc{renati/910738,
title = "Diseño in silico de nanoanticuerpos contra la región RBD de la proteína spike del SARS-CoV-2",
author = "García Chacaliaza, Eduardo Daniel",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Nanobodies are a type of single domain synthetic antibodies with many applications in research, diagnostics and treatments. These are easily expressed in microorganisms such as bacteria and yeasts and have high stability, allowing them to keep their structure even without cold chain (1, 2, 3). However, the conventional method of nanobody discovery requires a great number of resources and time (4). On the other hand, mutations that cause the loss of antibody affinity, such as the case with the RBD of the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 (5), are an example of how the rapid development of treatments and detection methods are particularly necessary for newly emerging pathogens. Having these factors in mind, we propose that an in silico design technique could complement and accelerate nanobody discovery, as it currently does for already stablished in vivo and in vitro methods for conventional IgG antibody discovery (6, 7, 8). In this project two strategies based on free access bioinformatic programs and the modification of known protein structures are proposed. The first is focused on nanobody discovery with high affinity to the RBD region of SARS-CoV-2 variants, while the second one is focused on nanobody discovery with high affinity to the reference strains of SARS-CoV-2, through the camelization of a VH of a conventional IgG antibody with affinity to the same antigen. Through these methods, 500 nanobodies were generated for each epitope and were analyzed with programs used for the estimation of their affinities towards the antigen, the quality of the generated model and protein modelling from scratch. Ultimately, 2 nanobodies with high affinity for the RBD of the P.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 and 14 nanobodies with high affinity to the RBD of the reference strain of SARS-CoV-2 were obtained. We propose the in vitro assessment of these 16 structures in order to validate the methods here followed.
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