Bioengineering

Session 242 - Protein Engineering I: Therapeutics
The ability to create proteins with desired properties is limited by our current understanding of the relationships between protein sequence, protein structure and protein function and by our current abilities to search sequence space in an efficient manner. This session seeks presentations on emerging topics and recent successes in both the understanding and engineering of protein form and function. Experimental and computational approaches that are of scientific, medical, and industrial significance are sought after. Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to: computational design, directed evolution, protein mutations and modifications including non-natural amino acids, antibody or cytokine engineering, and protein medicinal chemistry.
Chair: George Georgiou
CoChair: Scott Banta
  Affinity Maturation of Antibody Fragments Containing Non-Canonical Amino Acids
James A. Van Deventer, Tae Hyeon Yoo, David A. Tirrell
  A Comparison of Antibodies Isolated from Immune Libraries by Two Different Anchored Periplasmic Expression (APEx) Systems
Thomas J. Van Blarcom, Sean Carroll, Yariv Mazor, George Georgiou
  Synthetic Library Design Using the Fibronectin Domain as a Model System
Benjamin J. Hackel, K. Dane Wittrup
  Developing Therapeutic Proteins by Engineering Ligand-Receptor Interactions
Douglas S. Jones, Stayce E. Beck, Stephen S. Lee, Jennifer R. Cochran
  Break
  Novel Enzyme-Prodrug Therapy for Cancer
Roger G. Harrison, Yahya A. Lazrak, Luis F.F. Neves, Peter S. McFetridge, Arafat Tfayli
  Fabrication of Engineered Collagen-Like Biopolymers
Sam Wei Polly Chan, She-pin Hung, Richard Lathrop, Nancy A. Da Silva, Szu-Wen Wang
  Non-Associating Heterodimeric DNA Methyltransferases as a Platform for Developing Site-Specific Methyltransferases
Glenna Meister, Srinivasan Chandrasegaran, Marc Ostermeier

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