Nature Communications (May 2018)

Chemically triggered drug release from an antibody-drug conjugate leads to potent antitumour activity in mice

  • Raffaella Rossin,
  • Ron M. Versteegen,
  • Jeremy Wu,
  • Alisher Khasanov,
  • Hans J. Wessels,
  • Erik J. Steenbergen,
  • Wolter ten Hoeve,
  • Henk M. Janssen,
  • Arthur H. A. M. van Onzen,
  • Peter J. Hudson,
  • Marc S. Robillard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03880-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Current antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) target internalising receptors on cancer cells. Here, the authors report the development and in vivo validation of a non-internalising ADC with the capacity to target cancer cells and release its therapeutic cargo extracellularly via a chemical trigger.