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ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2012

Recombinant IgE antibody engineering to target EGFR.

Edzard Spillner, Melanie Plum, Simon Blank, Michaela Miehe, Josef Singer, Ingke Braren

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. AllergoOncology in Review: Harnessing Allergy in the Field of Oncology to Improve Patient Outcomes.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2026
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  5. IgE Antibodies against Cancer: Efficacy and Safety.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  9. IgE immunotherapy against cancer.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2015
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  12. The nascent field of AllergoOncology.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Edzard SpillnerDepartment of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. spillner@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Melanie Plum
Simon Blank
Michaela Miehe
Josef Singer
Ingke Braren
Universität Hamburg · DEUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf · DEUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Vienna · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monoclonal antibodies have become a mainstay for the targeted treatment of cancer today. Some of the most successful targets of monoclonal antibodies are constituted by the epidermal growth factor receptor family spearheaded by the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Prompted by studies indicating that IgE compared to IgG may harness alternate effector functions to eradicate malignant cells, we addressed the establishment, engineering, and the potential tumoricidal effects of recombinant anti-EGFR IgE. Therefore, two different therapeutic EGFR-specific antibodies, 225 and 425, were chosen for re-cloning into different chimeric IgE and IgG formats and produced in human cells. Simultaneous antibody binding to the sEGFR demonstrated accessibility of both epitopes for recombinant IgE. Proliferation and cytotoxicity assays demonstrated signal blocking and effector mediating capability of IgE isotypes. Pronounced degranulation in the presence of sEGFR upon activation exclusively with two IgE antibodies verified the epitope proximity and provides evidence that tumor-targeting by anti-EGFR IgE is safe with regard to soluble target structures. Degranulation mediated by tumor cells expressing EGFR could be demonstrated for singular and combined IgE antibodies; however, use of two IgE specificities was not superior to use of one IgE alone. The data suggest that the surface distribution of EGFR is optimally suited to mount a robust effector cell trigger and corroborate the potential and specificity of the IgE/IgE receptor network to react to xenobiotic or pathogenic patterns for targeting malignancies.

Indexed as

Antibodies, MonoclonalErbB ReceptorsHumansImmunoglobulin EProtein EngineeringAntibodies, MonoclonalErbB ReceptorsImmunoglobulin E

Identifiers

PMID22674055
PMCPMC11028481
OpenAlexW2020502712

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