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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Mar;29(3):245–254. doi: 10.1038/nbt.1791

Table 3.

In vitro selected antibodies recognizing cell surface receptors

Target Notes/therapeutic indication Ref
Blys Systemic lupus erythematosis 102
Tumor necrosis factor a Phage display was used to convert a murine mAb into a human antibody by guided selection. Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic plaque psoriasis and Crohn’s disease, antibody developed by guided selection phage display 104,105
IGF-1 receptor Blocking of ligand-binding site of receptor and receptor down-regulation by endocytosis. Potential application in cancer 106
Notch Prevent proteolysis of juxtamembrane NRR domain 107,108
Met Dimeric antibodies are agonistic, monomeric ones are antagonistic, and prospected for non-small cell lung cancer 109
MuSK Agonsitic antibodies demonstrate that MuSK activation is capable of triggering a key event in neuromuscular junction formation 110
CD40 Agonistic antibodies which activate normal human B suppress HIV-1 infection in vitro 111
Hemagglutinin Antibodies recognize a previously unknown conserved conformational epitope. Isolated from both naïve and immunized libraries. 23,112,113
EphA2 and CD44 Selected from phage antibody library on yeast displayed antigen, followed by selection for internalization on cells 114
CD166 Internalizing antibodies selected directly for internalization on cancer cells (CD166 on prostate, ErbB2 and Transferrin receptor on breast, EGFR on A431). Antigen identified after selection. Potential utility for internalization of chemotherapeutics. 115,116
ErbB2 117
Transferrin receptor 117
EGFR 118
TRAIL-R Over 500 different scFvs and Fabs isolated by phage display. 119