Emerging new therapeutic antibody derivatives for cancer treatment

S Jin, Y Sun, X Liang, X Gu, J Ning, Y Xu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies constitute a promising class of targeted anticancer agents that
enhance natural immune system functions to suppress cancer cell activity and eliminate …

Bispecific antibodies: from research to clinical application

J Ma, Y Mo, M Tang, J Shen, Y Qi, W Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) are antibodies with two binding sites directed at two different
antigens or two different epitopes on the same antigen. The clinical therapeutic effects of …

The therapeutic potential of nanobodies

I Jovčevska, S Muyldermans - BioDrugs, 2020 - Springer
Today, bio-medical efforts are entering the subcellular level, which is witnessed with the fast-
developing fields of nanomedicine, nanodiagnostics and nanotherapy in conjunction with …

Antibody structure and function: the basis for engineering therapeutics

ML Chiu, DR Goulet, A Teplyakov, GL Gilliland - Antibodies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antibodies and antibody-derived macromolecules have established themselves as the
mainstay in protein-based therapeutic molecules (biologics). Our knowledge of the structure …

The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

An alpaca nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by blocking receptor interaction

L Hanke, L Vidakovics Perez, DJ Sheward… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 enters host cells through an interaction between the spike glycoprotein and
the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor. Directly preventing this interaction …

Extracellular ATP and P2 purinergic signalling in the tumour microenvironment

F Di Virgilio, AC Sarti, S Falzoni, E De Marchi… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Modulation of the biochemical composition of the tumour microenvironment is a new frontier
of cancer therapy. Several immunosuppressive mechanisms operate in the milieu of most …

Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N Xie… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

Nanobody-based CAR-T cells for cancer immunotherapy

P Safarzadeh Kozani, A Naseri, SMJ Mirarefin… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is the result of combining genetic
engineering-based cancer immunotherapy with adoptive cell therapy (ACT). CAR-T therapy …

Engineered probiotics for local tumor delivery of checkpoint blockade nanobodies

CR Gurbatri, I Lia, R Vincent, C Coker… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer therapy but only work in a subset of
patients and can lead to a multitude of toxicities, suggesting the need for more targeted …