Transferrin receptor-mediated endocytosis: a useful target for cancer therapy

S Tortorella, TC Karagiannis - The Journal of membrane biology, 2014 - Springer
Current cancer management strategies fail to adequately treat malignancies with
multivariable dose-restricting factors such as systemic toxicity and multi-drug resistance …

Immunotoxin: A new tool for cancer therapy

H Allahyari, S Heidari, M Ghamgosha… - Tumor …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Cancer is one of the main reasons of death in the most countries and in Iran. Immunotherapy
quickly became one of the best methods of cancer treatment, along with chemotherapy and …

Critical issues in the development of immunotoxins for anticancer therapy

JS Kim, SY Jun, YS Kim - Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Immunotoxins (ITs) are attractive anticancer modalities aimed at cancer-specific delivery of
highly potent cytotoxic protein toxins. An IT consists of a targeting domain (an antibody …

Monoclonal antibody-based therapies in cancer: advances and challenges

P Sapra, B Shor - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2013 - Elsevier
Conventional anticancer therapeutics often suffer from lack of specificity, resulting in
toxicities to normal healthy tissues and poor therapeutic index. Antibody-mediated delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Saporin-S6: a useful tool in cancer therapy

L Polito, M Bortolotti, D Mercatelli, MG Battelli… - Toxins, 2013 - mdpi.com
Thirty years ago, the type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) saporin-S6 (also known as
saporin) was isolated from Saponaria officinalis L. seeds. Since then, the properties and …

A potent immunotoxin targeting fibroblast activation protein for treatment of breast cancer in mice

J Fang, L Xiao, KI Joo, Y Liu, C Zhang… - … journal of cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is highly expressed in the tumor‐associated fibroblasts
(TAFs) of most human epithelial cancers. FAP plays a critical role in tumorigenesis and …

B7-H4 as a potential target for immunotherapy for gynecologic cancers: a closer look

JB Smith, C Stashwick, DJ Powell Jr - Gynecologic oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
B7-H4 is a transmembrane protein that binds an unknown receptor on activated T cells
resulting in inhibition of T-cell effector function via cell cycle arrest, decreased proliferation …

Targeted delivery of antibody-based therapeutic and imaging agents to CNS tumors: crossing the blood–brain barrier divide

AM Chacko, C Li, DA Pryma, S Brem… - Expert opinion on …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Brain tumors are inherently difficult to treat in large part due to the cellular blood–
brain barriers (BBBs) that limit the delivery of therapeutics to the tumor tissue from the …

Immunotoxins constructed with ribosome-inactivating proteins and their enhancers: a lethal cocktail with tumor specific efficacy

R Gilabert-Oriol, A Weng… - Current …, 2014 - benthamdirect.com
The term ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) is used to denominate proteins mostly of plant
origin, which have N-glycosidase enzymatic activity leading to a complete destruction of the …

Production of anti‐cancer immunotoxins in algae: ribosome inactivating proteins as fusion partners

M Tran, RE Henry, D Siefker, C Van… - Biotechnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The eukaryotic green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been shown to be capable of
producing a variety of recombinant proteins, but the true potential of this platform remains …