Mechanisms of ADC toxicity and strategies to increase ADC tolerability

TD Nguyen, BM Bordeau, JP Balthasar - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) are a rapidly expanding class of anti-
cancer drugs, with twelve agents in current clinical use. Despite recent successes, many …

IgG subclasses and allotypes: from structure to effector functions

G Vidarsson, G Dekkers, T Rispens - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Of the five immunoglobulin isotypes, immunoglobulin G (IgG) is most abundant in human
serum. The four subclasses, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4, which are highly conserved, differ …

Complement is activated by elevated IgG3 hexameric platforms and deposits C4b onto distinct antibody domains

L Abendstein, DJ Dijkstra, RTN Tjokrodirijo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
IgG3 is unique among the IgG subclasses due to its extended hinge, allotypic diversity and
enhanced effector functions, including highly efficient pathogen neutralisation and …

B cells, antibodies, and more

W Hoffman, FG Lakkis, G Chalasani - Clinical Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
B cells play a central role in the immunopathogenesis of glomerulonephritides and
transplant rejection. B cells secrete antibodies that contribute to tissue injury via multiple …

Role of IgG3 in infectious diseases

T Damelang, SJ Rogerson, SJ Kent, AW Chung - Trends in immunology, 2019 - cell.com
IgG3 comprises only a minor fraction of IgG and has remained relatively understudied until
recent years. Key physiochemical characteristics of IgG3 include an elongated hinge region …

In Vitro Glycoengineering of IgG1 and Its Effect on Fc Receptor Binding and ADCC Activity

M Thomann, T Schlothauer, T Dashivets, S Malik… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The importance and effect of Fc glycosylation of monoclonal antibodies with regard to
biological activity is widely discussed and has been investigated in numerous studies. Fc …

Sindbis virus as a human pathogen—epidemiology, clinical picture and pathogenesis

S Adouchief, T Smura, J Sane… - Reviews in medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sindbis virus (SINV; family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus) is an enveloped RNA virus
widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa, Oceania and Australia. SINV is transmitted among its …

Microbiota dysbiosis influences immune system and muscle pathophysiology of dystrophin‐deficient mice

A Farini, L Tripodi, C Villa, F Strati… - EMBO molecular …, 2023 - embopress.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive severe muscle‐wasting disease
caused by mutations in DMD, encoding dystrophin, that leads to loss of muscle function with …

IgG glycome in colorectal cancer

F Vučković, E Theodoratou, K Thaçi, M Timofeeva… - Clinical cancer …, 2016 - AACR
Purpose: Alternative glycosylation has significant structural and functional consequences on
IgG and consequently also on cancer immunosurveillance. Because of technological …

Immunological role of IgG subclasses

C Napodano, MP Marino, A Stefanile… - Immunological …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The loss of tolerance to self-antigens is the unequivocal “red line” of autoimmunity: both
development of autoreactive T and B cells and production of polyclonal autoantibodies …