Authors
Ritter, S., Rand, L., Karthick, S., Bloomingdale, T., Smith, A., Ao, X., Pierre, Y., Harris, B., Moller, J., Bhatt, A., Bhatt, R., Schwartz, J., Grippo, L., Cohen, R., Borhani, D. W., Tessier, P. M., Arsiwala, A.
Abstract
Bispecific antibodies deliver functional outcomes that monospecific antibodies cannot, yet emergent self-association, polyreactivity, and aggregation often degrade their developability relative to their parental arms. Whether bispecific developability inherits from the parents or is driven by the format has not been tested at scale. We characterized 160 bispecific antibodies and their 65 parental arms on a uniform knobs-into-holes CrossMab IgG1 scaffold across 10 assays on the PROPHET-Ab high-throughput platform. Bispecific developability separates into three classes of inheritance. Hydrophobicity and surface charge inherit cleanly from the parents (Spearman {rho} {approx} 0.85 to 0.95), so parental-level screening predicts bispecific fate. Self-association and polyreactivity inherit partially ({rho} {approx} 0.60 to 0.88), with mechanistically interpretable emergent outliers driven in part by Fv-Fv charge complementarity and a parental biophysical ceiling on the hydrophobicity (HIC) by surface-charge (HAC) plane. Thermostability is poorly predicted from parental antibodies ({rho} < 0.4), so it requires bispecific-level testing. The class framework yields actionable selection rules: triage hydrophobicity and charge at the parental level, avoid pairing two high-HIC x high-HAC arms, pair opposite-sign Fv charges to suppress self-association but re-validate at the formulation buffer, and measure thermostability on the bispecific itself. This work charts a tractable path from monospecific sequence to bispecific developability prediction.
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