Strategies to boost antibody selectivity in oncology

V Blay, A Pandiella - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Antibodies in oncology are being equipped with toxic cargoes and effector functions that can
kill cells at very low concentrations. A key challenge is that most targets on cancer cells are …

i-shaped antibody engineering enables conformational tuning of biotherapeutic receptor agonists

MG Romei, B Leonard, ZB Katz, D Le, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to leverage antibodies to agonize disease relevant biological pathways has
tremendous potential for clinical investigation. Yet while antibodies have been successful as …

A phase I clinical trial adding OX40 agonism to in situ therapeutic cancer vaccination in patients with low-grade B cell lymphoma highlights challenges in translation …

T Shree, D Czerwinski, S Haebe, A Sathe… - Clinical Cancer …, 2025 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: Activating T cell costimulatory receptors is a promising approach for cancer
immunotherapy. In preclinical work, adding an OX40 agonist to in situ vaccination (ISV) with …

Joined at the hip: The role of light chain complementarity determining region 2 in antibody self-association

PR Sargunas, JB Spangler - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The amplification of weak transient protein–protein interactions to elicit robust immune
responses is a recurring theme in immune processes (1)(Fig. 1). Given the often highly …

Antibody interfaces revealed through structural mining

Y Yin, MG Romei, K Sankar, LR Pal, KH Hoi… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibodies are fundamental effectors of humoral immunity, and have become a highly
successful class of therapeutics. There is increasing evidence that antibodies utilize …

Joined at the hip

PR Sargunas, JB Spangler - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - JSTOR
The amplification ofweak transient protein-protein interactions to elicit robust immune
responses is a recurring theme in immune processes (1)(Fig. 1). Given the often highly …