DiPODS: A Reagent for Site-Specific Bioconjugation via the Irreversible Rebridging of Disulfide Linkages
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chemoselective reactions with thiols have long held promise for the site-specific bioconjugation of antibodies and antibody fragments. Yet bifunctional probes bearing monovalent maleimides—long the “gold standard” for thiol-based ligations—are hampered by two intrinsic issues: the in vivo instability of the maleimide–thiol bond and the need to permanently disrupt disulfide linkages in order to facilitate bioconjugation. Herein, we present the synthesis, characterization, and validation of DiPODS, a novel bioconjugation reagent containing a pair of oxadiazolyl methyl sulfone moieties capable of irreversibly forming covalent bonds with two thiolate groups while simultaneously rebridging disulfide linkages. The reagent was synthesized from commercially available starting materials in 8 steps, during which rotamers were encountered and investigated both experimentally and computationally. DiPODS is designed to be modular and can thus be conjugated to any payload through a pendant terminal primary amine (DiPODS–PEG4–NH2). Subsequently, the modification of a HER2-targeting Fab with a fluorescein-conjugated variant of DiPODS (DiPODS–PEG4–FITC) reinforced the site-specificity of the reagent, illustrated its ability to rebridge disulfide linkages, and produced an immunoconjugate with in vitro properties superior to those of an analogous construct created using traditional stochastic bioconjugation techniques. Ultimately, we believe that this work has particularly important implications for the synthesis of immunoconjugates, specifically for ensuring that the attachment of cargoes to immunoglobulins is robust, irreversible, and biologically and structurally benign.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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