Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Co-administered antibody improves penetration of antibody–dye conjugate into human cancers with implications for antibody–drug conjugates

  • Guolan Lu,
  • Naoki Nishio,
  • Nynke S. van den Berg,
  • Brock A. Martin,
  • Shayan Fakurnejad,
  • Stan van Keulen,
  • Alexander D. Colevas,
  • Greg M. Thurber,
  • Eben L. Rosenthal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19498-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Antibody-drug conjugates targeting high expression receptors can suffer from poor tumour penetration. Here, the authors use unconjugated antibody to improve the penetration of an antibody-dye conjugate in a clinical study, supporting further clinical investigation of the co-administration strategy.