Bispecific antibodies in multiple myeloma: opportunities to enhance efficacy and improve safety

D Swan, P Murphy, S Glavey, J Quinn - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, is the commonest cancer
of adults in the Western World. Therapies have advanced dramatically in recent years …

BCMA CAR-T cells in multiple myeloma–ready for take-off?

L Scheller, E Tebuka, PF Rambau, H Einsele… - Leukemia & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although the approval of new drugs has improved the clinical outcome of multiple myeloma
(MM), it was widely regarded as incurable over the past decades. However, recent …

A TNFR2-Specific TNF Fusion Protein With Improved In Vivo Activity

JG Vargas, J Wagner, H Shaikh, I Lang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor-2 (TNFR2) has attracted considerable interest as a
target for immunotherapy. Indeed, using oligomeric fusion proteins of single chain-encoded …

High NEK2 expression in myeloid progenitors suppresses T cell immunity in multiple myeloma

Y Cheng, F Sun, DV Alapat, V Wanchai, D Mery… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Multiple myeloma (MM) growth is supported by an immune-tolerant bone marrow
microenvironment. Here, we find that loss of Never in mitosis gene A (NIMA)-related kinase …

Regulatory T cells hamper the efficacy of T-cell-engaging bispecific antibody therapy

M Casey, C Lee, WY Kwok, SC Law, D Corvino… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
T-cell-engaging bispecific antibodies (T-BsAb) have produced impressive clinical responses
in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies, although treatment failure remains a …

Current and Future PET imaging for multiple myeloma

M Ishibashi, M Takahashi, T Yamaya, Y Imai - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging modality used for the noninvasive
assessment of tumor staging and response to therapy. PET with 18F labeled …

Overexpression of Potential Markers of Regulatory and Exhausted CD8+ T Cells in the Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Patients with B-Acute Lymphoblastic …

M Naghavi Alhosseini, M Palazzo, L Cari… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is one of the most common pediatric cancers,
wherein regulatory T cells (Treg) and exhausted CD8+ T cells may be important in its …

Race for the Cure: From the Oldest to the Newest Monoclonal Antibodies for Multiple Myeloma Treatment

G Lapietra, F Fazio, MT Petrucci - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multiple myeloma is characterized by a wide clinical heterogeneity due to an intricate
network of interactions between bone marrow-resident clonal plasma cells and the …

A journey through the inter-cellular interactions in the bone marrow in multiple myeloma: Implications for the next generation of treatments

R Hervás-Salcedo, B Martín-Antonio - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Here, we describe the main interactions of multiple myeloma cells in the
bone marrow with non-hematological and hematological immune cells that impact the …

Endogenous CCL21-Ser deficiency reduces B16–F10 melanoma growth by enhanced antitumor immunity

R Fujie, K Kurowarabe, Y Yamada, K Fujiwara… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The chemokine CCL21 regulates immune and cancer cell migration through its receptor
CCR7. The Ccl21a gene encodes the isoform CCL21-Ser, predominantly expressed in the …