TCR and Protein Engineering Platform

Advance T cell receptor and protein therapeutics with Adimab’s yeast-based protein engineering platform. Our dual-mode TCR-Fc system enables high-affinity, soluble receptors optimized for stability, specificity, and functional activity.

Dual-mode yeast platform

Dual-mode yeast platform

Soluble or surface TCR formats for fast selection.

Rapid affinity maturation

Rapid affinity maturation

All-CDR and DMS enable massive affinity gains.

Validated reproducibility

Validated reproducibility

TCR-Fc affinities match published references.

Therapeutic functionality

Therapeutic functionality

Optimized TCRs boost T cell activity >1000×.

High-throughput TCR and protein expression

Adimab’s yeast-based protein engineering platform supports expression of TCR-Fc molecules in both soluble and surface-presented modes. This dual capability allows rapid purification, screening, and kinetic analysis, while engineered constant regions and stabilizing disulfides enhance solubility and stability, accelerating workflows in T cell receptor engineering for therapeutic development.

Powerful TCR affinity maturation strategies

Using all-CDR diversification and deep mutational scanning, Adimab delivers dramatic affinity gains in TCR development. Optimized variants have achieved up to 300,000-fold tighter binding with fewer mutations than benchmark systems. These methods balance specificity and stability, advancing the potential of modern protein engineering platforms.

Proven reproducibility across targets

The yeast-based system has been validated across dozens of receptors and peptide–HLA complexes, consistently reproducing reported binding behaviors. This reproducibility highlights the reliability of our protein engineering platform in supporting diverse therapeutic projects, from early TCR discovery to advanced T cell engineering pipelines targeting intracellular antigens.

Therapeutic-ready optimization

Engineered TCRs can be directly integrated into bispecific or other therapeutic constructs, demonstrating enhanced functional activity while preserving peptide selectivity. By combining high affinity, solubility, and specificity, Adimab’s protein engineering platform enables our partners to generate optimized receptors that translate into potent, clinically relevant molecules, including TCRs and other engineered proteins.

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Validated platform performance

Our proprietary yeast-based protein engineering platform expresses soluble TCR-Fc molecules that align with published affinities across 44 diverse TCRs.

This system delivers reproducible binding behavior across peptide–HLA complexes and germline combinations, providing a reliable foundation for therapeutic development. The platform also produces engineered proteins that have modulated specificity and/or affinity to their natural partners.

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Significant affinity gains

With all-CDR diversification, TCRs engineered using our platform achieve up to 300,000-fold tighter binding in the 1G4 lineage, which recognizes the cancer antigen NY-ESO-1, and ~10,000-fold in MEL5, which targets the melanoma antigen MART-1.

These affinity gains are achieved with fewer amino acid substitutions than phage-derived controls, underscoring the efficiency of our high-throughput protein engineering workflow.

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Potent T cell activation

Optimized TCRs incorporated into CD3 bispecifics drive more than 1,000-fold stronger CD8+ T cell activation, cytokine release, and target-cell killing compared to parental clones.

The engineered molecules demonstrate therapeutic impact in formats designed to redirect immune responses.

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Preserved peptide specificity

Alanine scanning shows that affinity maturation using Adimab’s protein engineering platform preserves, and often enhances, peptide specificity.

Optimized 1G4 variants display sharper selectivity than affinity-matched controls, proving that high affinity and precise targeting can be achieved together in engineered receptors. Protein specificity can also be modulated using similar approaches.

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