Multispecific drugs herald a new era of biopharmaceutical innovation

RJ Deshaies - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The modern biopharmaceutical industry traces its roots to the dawn of the twentieth century,
coincident with marketing of aspirin—a signature event in the history of modern drug …

Engineered TCR-T cell immunotherapy in anticancer precision medicine: pros and cons

Q Zhao, Y Jiang, S Xiang, PJ Kaboli, J Shen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review provides insight into the role of engineered T-cell receptors (TCRs) in
immunotherapy. Novel approaches have been developed to boost anticancer immune …

Targeting a neoantigen derived from a common TP53 mutation

EHC Hsiue, KM Wright, J Douglass, MS Hwang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION TP53 (tumor protein P53), a tumor suppressor gene, is the most commonly
mutated cancer-driver gene. Nevertheless, drugs that target mutant p53, the protein product …

Tebentafusp, a TCR/anti-CD3 bispecific fusion protein targeting gp100, potently activated antitumor immune responses in patients with metastatic melanoma

MR Middleton, C McAlpine, VK Woodcock… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Tebentafusp is a first-in-class bispecific fusion protein designed to target gp100 (a
melanoma-associated antigen) through a high affinity T-cell receptor (TCR) binding domain …

Bispecific antibodies targeting mutant RAS neoantigens

J Douglass, EHC Hsiue, BJ Mog, MS Hwang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Mutations in the RAS oncogenes occur in multiple cancers, and ways to target these
mutations has been the subject of intense research for decades. Most of these efforts are …

Therapeutic high affinity T cell receptor targeting a KRASG12D cancer neoantigen

A Poole, V Karuppiah, A Hartt, JN Haidar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neoantigens derived from somatic mutations are specific to cancer cells and are ideal
targets for cancer immunotherapy. KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene and …

Tebentafusp: T cell redirection for the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma

BE Damato, J Dukes, H Goodall, RD Carvajal - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Metastatic disease from uveal melanoma occurs in almost 50% of patients suffering from this
ocular tumour, with median survival from development of symptoms being around 1 year. In …

Splicing Patterns in SF3B1-Mutated Uveal Melanoma Generate Shared Immunogenic Tumor-Specific Neoepitopes

J Bigot, AI Lalanne, F Lucibello, P Gueguen, A Houy… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Disruption of splicing patterns due to mutations of genes coding splicing factors in tumors
represents a potential source of tumor neoantigens, which would be both public (shared …

Biology drives the discovery of bispecific antibodies as innovative therapeutics

S Nie, Z Wang, M Moscoso-Castro… - Antibody …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A bispecific antibody (bsAb) is able to bind two different targets or two distinct
epitopes on the same target. Broadly speaking, bsAbs can include any single molecule …

[HTML][HTML] NY-ESO-1-specific redirected T cells with endogenous TCR knockdown mediate tumor response and cytokine release syndrome

M Ishihara, S Kitano, S Kageyama… - … for ImmunoTherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Because of the shortage of ideal cell surface antigens, the development of T-
cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells (TCR-T) that target intracellular antigens such as NY …