Therapeutic antibody: new opportunity for immunity and inflammatory diseases

With the development of therapeutic antibodies over the past decade, they have become the treatment options for immunity and inflammation diseases.  Major limitations of mouse antibodies as therapeutic agents — immunogenicity, lack of effectors’ functions and short serum half-life — were subsequently identified and largely overcome by the advent of humanized and fully human antibody technologies.  The therapeutic antibodies for immunity and inflammatory diseases are primarily utilized in the treatment of allograft rejection, autoimmune disease, autoinflammatory syndromes, allergies and other chronic inflammation.  The action mechanisms of therapeutic antibody include blocking ligands or receptors, regulating receptor activity, clearing the target cells or activating receptor.  Strategies for generating the antibody drugs with high efficacy and low side effects can be realized by modulation of Fc-mediated activities and optimization of antigen-binding domains.