Avalon GloboCare Announces Publication Featuring QTY Code Technology in the Official Journal of the American Chemical Society
08 August 2022 - 11:00PM
Avalon GloboCare Corp. (NASDAQ: AVCO), a leading
global developer of innovative cell-based technologies and
therapeutics, today announced a new publication featuring the
Company’s QTY protein code technology in Chemical Reviews, a
top-ranked peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official
journal of American Chemical Society (journal Impact Factor is 72).
The publication, entitled “Protein Design: From the Aspect of Water
Solubility and Stability,” focuses on the innovative QTY protein
design code—co-developed by Avalon—as a novel platform to generate
water-soluble proteins for a wide spectrum of biomedical
applications. The Company initially licensed the technology from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has advanced
the platform through a sponsored research agreement with the
university.
The “QTY Code” breakthrough technology,
developed in 2011 by the laboratory of Dr. Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D.,
of MIT’s Media lab in Boston, MA, is a protein-design platform that
can turn difficult to work with water-insoluble transmembrane
receptor proteins into water-soluble proteins, enabling their
potential use in many clinical applications, including drug
development.
The publication provides a comprehensive review
of the QTY protein code design platform. Proteins are molecular
machines inside of cells that perform the majority of essential
biological functions. Proteins need to maintain their correct
3-dimensional structure for human health, to perform their
functions. Well-known human disorders are related to mis-folding of
proteins that result in their poor solubility, stability, and
function. A better understanding of the protein folding process is
necessary for development of therapies for diseases involving
protein misfolding.
The QTY code design approach may have the
potential to facilitate the 1) development of important drug
modalities including monoclonal antibodies, 2) creation of
water-soluble proteins from insoluble proteins that are important
but difficult to work with drug targets, 3) evolution of
computational methods for rational drug design, 4) development of
novel therapeutic targets for pharmaceutical and cellular
medicines, and 5) production of other important biomedical
applications.
“We are excited to have the technology we
developed together with MIT’s Dr. Zhang featured in this
publication,” said David Jin, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief
Executive Officer of Avalon. “Over the past 70 years, there has
been rapid advancement in the understanding of how biology works at
the molecular level. Our QTY protein design code extends this
knowledge, enabling an even more precise understanding and
manipulation of protein structures and function. Not only does the
QTY code contribute significantly to the knowledge base of an
important class of proteins, but we believe it also provides new
pathways for further investigation and subsequent applications that
were previously unattainable. Importantly, we believe this
publication is a validation of Avalon’s strategy. We previously
licensed patents from MIT related to the use of QTY solubilized
membrane proteins to be used as decoy receptors in therapeutics. We
subsequently filed additional patent applications jointly with MIT,
and plan to apply for more patents with the university related to
the QTY protein design technologies.”
“As the QTY code method evolves, we expect the
construction of new functional proteins will become increasingly
easier. Potential applications for these new designs include: (i)
novel therapeutics which utilize functional equivalents of native
cellular receptors; (ii) integrated vehicles for drug delivery and
personalized medicine; (iii) biomimetic sensing platforms with high
specificity and diagnostic precision; (iv) biocompatible
human-electronic interfaces with molecular level integrations; and
(v) functional supramolecular nanomaterials with hyperstability. We
hope that these findings can inspire other researchers to explore
new methodologies for water-soluble protein design, leveraging our
growing portfolio of intellectually property, and develop them into
biological entities and biomaterials that can be used in
biomedicine to better the health of individuals,” concluded Dr.
Jin.
About Avalon GloboCare Corp.
Avalon GloboCare Corp. (NASDAQ: AVCO) is a
clinical-stage, vertically integrated, leading CellTech
bio-developer dedicated to advancing and empowering innovative,
transformative immune effector cell therapy, exosome technology, as
well as cell therapy related companion diagnostics. Avalon also
provides strategic advisory and outsourcing services to facilitate
and enhance its clients' growth and development, as well as
competitiveness in healthcare and CellTech industry markets.
Through its subsidiary structure with unique integration of
verticals from innovative R&D to automated bioproduction and
accelerated clinical development, Avalon is establishing a leading
role in the fields of cellular immunotherapy (including CAR-T/NK),
exosome technology (ACTEX™), and regenerative therapeutics. For
more information about Avalon GloboCare, please visit
www.avalon-globocare.com.
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