Australian-based biopharmaceutical company Phylogica will use Isogenica’s CIS display technology to optimize the performance of three of its lead compounds targeting CD40 ligand (CD40L). CD40L is a key protein involved in many inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.
CIS display, an in vitro display technology, allows the generation of polypeptide libraries of unprecedented size and complexity, according to Isogenica. It is then possible to select polypeptides with high affinity and specificity for most targets, the company continues.