Antibody-drug conjugates: recent advances in conjugation and linker chemistries

K Tsuchikama, Z An - Protein & cell, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), a humanized or human monoclonal antibody
conjugated with highly cytotoxic small molecules (payloads) through chemical linkers, is a …

Site-specific antibody–drug conjugates: the nexus of bioorthogonal chemistry, protein engineering, and drug development

P Agarwal, CR Bertozzi - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) combine the specificity of antibodies with the potency of
small molecules to create targeted drugs. Despite the simplicity of this concept, generation of …

Antibody drug conjugates: design and selection of linker, payload and conjugation chemistry

JR McCombs, SC Owen - The AAPS journal, 2015 - Springer
Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) have emerged as an important pharmaceutical class of
drugs designed to harness the specificity of antibodies with the potency of small molecule …

Exploiting nanobodies' singular traits

JR Ingram, FI Schmidt, HL Ploegh - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The unique class of heavy chain–only antibodies, present in Camelidae, can be shrunk to
just the variable region of the heavy chain to yield VHHs, also called nanobodies. About one …

Site-specific C-terminal and internal loop labeling of proteins using sortase-mediated reactions

CP Guimaraes, MD Witte, CS Theile, G Bozkurt… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
Methods for site-specific modification of proteins should be quantitative and versatile with
respect to the nature and size of the biological or chemical targets involved. They should …

Biomaterials for vaccine-based cancer immunotherapy

R Zhang, MM Billingsley, MJ Mitchell - Journal of Controlled Release, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of therapeutic cancer vaccines as a means to generate immune reactivity
against tumors has been explored since the early discovery of tumor-specific antigens by …

Engineering a catalytically efficient recombinant protein ligase

R Yang, YH Wong, GKT Nguyen, JP Tam… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Breaking and forming peptidyl bonds are fundamental biochemical reactions in protein
chemistry. Unlike proteases that are abundantly available, fast-acting ligases are rare …

Sortase Enzyme-Mediated Generation of Site-Specifically Conjugated Antibody Drug Conjugates with High In Vitro and In Vivo Potency

RR Beerli, T Hell, AS Merkel, U Grawunder - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) have recently been proven to be highly potent anti-tumor
drugs, typically exceeding the efficacy of conventional monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). ADCs …

Irreversible site‐specific hydrazinolysis of proteins by use of sortase

YM Li, YT Li, M Pan, XQ Kong, YC Huang… - Angewandte …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sortase‐mediated hydrazinolysis of proteins with hydrazine or its derivatives was developed
for the production of recombinant protein hydrazides. This process provides an alternative …

Antibody conjugates: from heterogeneous populations to defined reagents

P Dennler, E Fischer, R Schibli - Antibodies, 2015 - mdpi.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and their derivatives are currently the fastest growing class of
therapeutics. Even if naked antibodies have proven their value as successful …