Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Engineering an anti-HER2 biparatopic antibody with a multimodal mechanism of action

  • Florian Kast,
  • Martin Schwill,
  • Jakob C. Stüber,
  • Svende Pfundstein,
  • Gabriela Nagy-Davidescu,
  • Josep M. Monné Rodríguez,
  • Frauke Seehusen,
  • Christian P. Richter,
  • Annemarie Honegger,
  • Karen Patricia Hartmann,
  • Thomas G. Weber,
  • Felix Kroener,
  • Patrick Ernst,
  • Jacob Piehler,
  • Andreas Plückthun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23948-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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HER2 acts an oncogenic driver in numerous cancers. Here, the authors design an anti-HER2 biparatopic and tetravalent IgG fusion with inhibitory effects in a xenograft model.