Monoclonal antibodies to lipoarabinomannan/arabinomannan–characteristics and implications for tuberculosis research and diagnostics

DT Corrigan, E Ishida, D Chatterjee, TL Lowary… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
DT Corrigan, E Ishida, D Chatterjee, TL Lowary, JM Achkar
Trends in microbiology, 2023cell.com
Antibodies to the mycobacterial surface lipoglycan lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and its related
capsular polysaccharide arabinomannan (AM) are increasingly important for investigations
focused on both understanding mechanisms of protection against Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb) and developing next-generation point-of-care tuberculosis (TB)
diagnostics. We provide here an overview of the growing pipeline of monoclonal antibodies
(mAbs) to LAM/AM. Old and new methodologies for their generation are reviewed and we …
Antibodies to the mycobacterial surface lipoglycan lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and its related capsular polysaccharide arabinomannan (AM) are increasingly important for investigations focused on both understanding mechanisms of protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and developing next-generation point-of-care tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics. We provide here an overview of the growing pipeline of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to LAM/AM. Old and new methodologies for their generation are reviewed and we outline and discuss their glycan epitope specificity and other features with implications for the TB field.
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