Antibody鈥揇rug Conjugates for Tumor Targeting鈥擭ovel Conjugation Chemistries and the Promise of non-IgG Binding Proteins
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- 作者：Hannes Merten ; Fabian Brandl ; Andreas Pl眉ckthun ; Uwe Zangemeister-Wittke
- 刊名：Bioconjugate Chemistry
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：November 18, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：26
- 期：11
- 页码：2176-2185
- 全文大小：471K
- ISSN：1520-4812
文摘
Antibody鈥揹rug conjugates (ADCs) have emerged as a promising class of anticancer agents, combining the specificity of antibodies for tumor targeting and the destructive potential of highly potent drugs as payload. An essential component of these immunoconjugates is a bifunctional linker capable of reacting with the antibody and the payload to assemble a functional entity. Linker design is fundamental, as it must provide high stability in the circulation to prevent premature drug release, but be capable of releasing the active drug inside the target cell upon receptor-mediated endocytosis. Although ADCs have demonstrated an increased therapeutic window, compared to conventional chemotherapy in recent clinical trials, therapeutic success rates are still far from optimal. To explore other regimes of half-life variation and drug conjugation stoichiometries, it is necessary to investigate additional binding proteins which offer access to a wide range of formats, all with molecularly defined drug conjugation. Here, we delineate recent progress with site-specific and biorthogonal conjugation chemistries, and discuss alternative, biophysically more stable protein scaffolds like Designed Ankyrin Repeat Proteins (DARPins), which may provide such additional engineering opportunities for drug conjugates with improved pharmacological performance.