20Antibody therapeutics are one of the most important classes of drugs. Antibody structures 21 have become an integral part of predicting the behavior of potential therapeutics, either directly or 22 as the basis of modeling. Structures of Fab:antigen complexes have even greater value. While the 23 crystallization and structure determination of Fabs is easy relative to many other protein classes, 24 especially membrane proteins, broad screening and optimization of crystalline hits is still 25 necessary. Through a comprehensive review of rabbit Fab crystal contacts and their 26 incompatibility with human Fab structures, we identified a small secondary structural element 27 from the rabbit light chain constant domain potentially responsible for hindering the crystallization 28 of human Fabs. Upon replacing the human kappa constant domain FG loop (HQGLSSP) with the 29 two residue shorter rabbit loop (QGTTS), we dramatically improved the crystallization of human 30 Fabs and Fab:antigen complexes. Our design, which we call "Crystal Kappa", enables rapid 31 crystallization of human fabs and fab complexes in a broad range of conditions, with less material 32 in smaller screens or from dilute solutions. 33 Abbreviations 34 CDR Complementarity determining region 35 CFC Column fraction crystallization 36 CK Crystal Kappa 37 GITR Glucocorticoid-Induced TNFR-Related Protein 38 TIGIT T-cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains 39 LC Light Chain 40 HC Heavy Chain 41 CH1 Constant Heavy Domain 1 42 Ckappa Constant Kappa Domain 43 Fv Antibody variable domain fragment 44 45 Introduction 46 Antibody therapeutics are one of the most important classes of drugs. By the end of 2019, 47 90 monoclonal antibody drugs covering immune disease, infection disease, cardiovascular disease, 48 cancer and others had been approved in the U.S. and Europe [1], accounting for a projected $150B 49 [2]. While at one time rodent antibodies were developed for human use, this was followed by a 50 long period of humanized antibodies, which over the last two decades has shifted to entirely human 51 discovery platforms like phage [3] and yeast display [4] or by immunization of rodents with human 52 germline repertoires [5]. In these platforms engineering is not necessary for humanization but 53 continues to be used to address other issues: affinity, cross-reactivity, post translational 54 modifications, hydrophobicity, electrostatics, viscosity, and immunogenicity. Furthermore, 55 characterization of antibodies continues to become more sophisticated, especially as new antibody 56 derived formats are developed like antibody drug conjugates and bispecific antibodies [6]. 57 Modeling of antibody structures has become an integral part of predicting the behavior of 58 potential therapeutics, especially for properties such as hydrophobicity, stability, charge/dipole 59 moments and deamidation propensity [7]. This modeling is typically based on the publicly 60 available crystal structures with the most similar CDR sequences. Due to the difficulty of modeling 61 ...