Communications Biology (Sep 2022)

Impairment of IgG Fc functions promotes tumor progression and suppresses NK cell antitumor actions

  • Xuejun Fan,
  • Zihao Yuan,
  • Yueshui Zhao,
  • Wei Xiong,
  • Hao-Ching Hsiao,
  • Rahmawati Pare,
  • Jianmin Ding,
  • Ahmad Almosa,
  • Kai Sun,
  • Songlin Zhang,
  • Robert E. Jordan,
  • Cheok Song Lee,
  • Zhiqiang An,
  • Ningyan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03931-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Single-hinge cleaved antibodies (scIgGs) in tumors damped NK cell cytotoxic activities and resulted in more aggressive tumor progression, which can be rescued by targeting the neoepitope in scIgGs with an anti-hinge antibody.