LBPO.ET01 · 实验与分子治疗 · Late-Breaking
解锁完整的人类抗体库:具有完全人源化Lambda链和多样化遗传背景的新型人源化抗体小鼠模型
Unlocking the Full Human Antibody Repertoire: Novel Humanized Antibody Mouse Models with Fully Humanized Lambda Chains and Diversified Genetic Backgrounds
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背景:治疗性抗体领域长期以来主要立足于kappa(κ)轻链库,导致lambda(λ)轻链被系统性地未充分利用,而λ轻链约占天然人类抗体库的40%。这一忽视直接限制了可发现治疗性抗体的广度。全人源λ抗体的开发基于轻链重排的生物学,在此过程中,当κ重排失败时,λ重排作为一条关键的补偿性途径。这确立了λ链对于抗体库完整性和适应性的根本性作用,而不仅仅是补充性的。
方法:本公司已开发出一系列RenMice平台,包括能够生成携带κ轻链抗体的RenMab™小鼠。通过采用百奥赛图(Biocytogen)独有的Mb级染色体工程技术,我们成功地将1.1 Mb的人类λ轻链基因座整合到C57BL/6J胚胎干细胞(ESC)中。随后的繁育产生了携带人源化重链、κ链和λ链的完全人源化小鼠,从而实现了免疫球蛋白系统的全面人源化。为进一步增强平台的稳健性并更好地模拟人类免疫应答的多基因特性,我们通过系统性回交将RenMice品系导入多种标准近交背景(包括BALB/c和SJL),从而使其遗传背景多样化。
结果:该方法产生了两个新型模型:表达人源κ链和λ链的RenMab HKL小鼠,以及仅表达人源λ链的RenMab HL小鼠。广泛的免疫表型分析验证了所有模型均维持完全健全、类似野生型的免疫系统发育和稳态。一项关键发现是,RenMab HKL小鼠忠实地重现了天然人类κ:λ轻链表达比例(接近1:1)。两种模型均表现出高度多样化的、免疫前的λ抗体库,具有独特的种系基因片段使用偏好。经免疫后,两种品系均能可靠地生成高亲和力、抗原特异性的全人源λ抗体,其结合亲和力可与已确立的治疗性基准相媲美。多样化遗传背景的引入贡献了额外一层免疫库变异,丰富了可发现的抗体空间。
结论:我们建立了一个用于生成全人源λ抗体的新一代平台。RenMab HKL和HL模型显著扩展了抗体库多样性,从而促进了针对难治性靶点的新型治疗性生物制剂的发现,并推进了创新免疫疗法的开发。
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Background: The therapeutic antibody field has been predominantly anchored in the kappa (κ) light chain repertoire, resulting in the systematic underutilization of the lambda (λ) light chain, a component that constitutes approximately 40% of the natural human antibody landscape. This oversight directly constrains the breadth of discoverable therapeutics. The development of fully human λ antibodies is based on the biology of light chain rearrangement, a process in which λ-rearrangement serves as an essential compensatory pathway upon κ-rearrangement failure. This establishes λ chains as fundamental for antibody repertoire completeness and adaptability, not merely supplementary.
Method: Our company has developed a series of RenMice platforms, including RenMab™ mice capable of generating antibodies with κ light chains. By employing Biocytogen's unique Mb-scale chromosome engineering technology, we successfully integrated the 1.1 Mb human λ light chain locus into C57BL/6J embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Subsequent breeding yielded fully humanized mice carrying humanized heavy, κ, and λ chains, thereby achieving comprehensive humanization of the immunoglobulin system. To further enhance the platform's robustness and better model the polygenic nature of human immune responses, we diversified the genetic background of the RenMice strains through systematic backcrossing into multiple standard inbred backgrounds, including BALB/c and SJL.
Results: This approach yielded two novel models: the RenMab HKL mouse, which expresses human κ and λ chains, and the RenMab HL mouse, which exclusively expresses the human λ chains. Extensive immune phenotyping validated that all models maintain fully competent, wild-type-like immune system development and homeostasis. A key finding was that the RenMab HKL mice faithfully recapitulated the natural human κ:λ light chain expression ratio (nearly 1:1). Both models exhibited highly diverse, pre-immune λ antibody repertoires with distinct germline gene segment usage preferences. Upon immunization, both strains reliably generated high-affinity, antigen-specific, fully human λ antibodies, with binding affinities competitive with established therapeutic benchmarks. The introduction of diversified genetic backgrounds contributed an additional layer of immune repertoire variation, enriching the discoverable antibody space.
Conclusion: We have established a next-generation platform for fully human λ antibody generation. The RenMab HKL and HL models significantly expand the antibody repertoire diversity, thereby facilitating the discovery of novel therapeutic biologics against refractory targets and advancing the development of innovative immunotherapies.
利益披露 Disclosure
B. Yang, None..
L. Liu, None..
L. Zhang, None..
Y. Li, None..
H. Zhao, None..
J. Yao, None.