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Pharmacology of Potassium Channels

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Pharmacology of Potassium Channels
Springer International Publishing
Attention for Chapter: Therapeutic Antibodies Targeting Potassium Ion Channels.
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Chapter title
Therapeutic Antibodies Targeting Potassium Ion Channels.
Book title
Pharmacology of Potassium Channels
Published in
Handbook of experimental pharmacology, May 2021
DOI 10.1007/164_2021_464
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Book ISBNs
978-3-03-084051-8, 978-3-03-084052-5
Authors

Bednenko, Janna, Colussi, Paul, Hussain, Sunyia, Zhang, Yihui, Clark, Theodore

Abstract

Monoclonal antibodies combine specificity and high affinity binding with excellent pharmacokinetic properties and are rapidly being developed for a wide range of drug targets including clinically important potassium ion channels. Nonetheless, while therapeutic antibodies come with great promise, K+ channels represent particularly difficult targets for biologics development for a variety of reasons that include their dynamic structures and relatively small extracellular loops, their high degree of sequence conservation (leading to immune tolerance), and their generally low-level expression in vivo. The process is made all the more difficult when large numbers of antibody candidates must be screened for a given target, or when lead candidates fail to cross-react with orthologous channels in animal disease models due to their highly selective binding properties. While the number of antibodies targeting potassium channels in preclinical or clinical development is still modest, significant advances in the areas of protein expression and antibody screening are converging to open the field to an avalanche of new drugs. Here, the opportunities and constraints associated with the discovery of antibodies against K+ channels are discussed, with an emphasis on novel technologies that are opening the field to exciting new possibilities for biologics development.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 20%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 20%
Neuroscience 1 20%
Unknown 3 60%