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Engineering mammalian cell line for N-linked glycosylation control
N-linked glycosylation in monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) plays a critical role in their biological function, clinical efficacy, and safety. mAbs have highly conserved N-linked glycans at the Asn297 position of the Fc region affecting Fc-mediated effector functions, including antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC). Despites increasing efforts to develop strategies for glycoengineering, the lack of tools to precisely control mAb N-glycosylation has significantly hampered the production of more effective and safe antibodies. Here, we leverage synthetic biology to control mAbs fucosylation and galactosylation with small molecule inducible systems and synthetic miRNA regulators in engineered Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. We achieved precise tuning of fuco-sylation (0–97%) and galactosylation (0–87%) levels with dose-dependent induction of two glycosyltransferases genes, FUT8 and?4GALT1. Importantly, orthogonal and small molecule inducible gene expression enabled us to simultaneously and independently control levels of fucosylation and galactosylation. Next, we developed a system for intrinsic control of mAbs fucosylation, thereby eliminating the need for expensive small molecules. Using ???8−/−CHO cells, recombinant FUT8 expression levels were controlled by varying numbers of synthetic miRNA target sites at the 5’ and 3’ UTRs. Upon induction of miR-FF4, precise tuning of mAb fucosylation levels (0.9-98%) were achieved and mAb production remained stable for long-term experiments. The development of tools to control N-glycosylation levels of monoclonal antibodies will help to overcome existing bottlenecks in next-generation antibody engineering, thereby improving their clinical efficacy.
Thesis Supervisor:
Timothy K. Lu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Synthetic Biology Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biological Engineering, MIT
Thesis Committee Chair:
James J. Collins, PhD
Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Thesis Reader:
Aleksandar D. Kostic, PhD
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, HMS
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Topic: Giyoung Jung PhD Defense
Time: October 8, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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