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ArticlePharmaceutical research2015

Evolving Strategies for Target Selection for Antibody-Drug Conjugates.

Marc Damelin, Wenyan Zhong, Jeremy Myers, Puja Sapra

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Article in Pharmaceutical research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Gynecologic Oncology: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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  15. Diverse Roles of Antibodies in Antibody-Drug Conjugates.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  20. Antibody drug conjugates in the clinic.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marc DamelinPfizer Inc., Oncology Research Unit, 401 N. Middletown Rd., Bldg. 200-4502, Pearl River, NY, 10965, USA.
Wenyan ZhongPfizer Inc., Oncology Research Unit, 401 N. Middletown Rd., Bldg. 200-4502, Pearl River, NY, 10965, USA.
Jeremy MyersPfizer Inc., Oncology Research Unit, 401 N. Middletown Rd., Bldg. 200-4502, Pearl River, NY, 10965, USA.
Puja SapraPfizer Inc., Oncology Research Unit, 401 N. Middletown Rd., Bldg. 200-4502, Pearl River, NY, 10965, USA. puja.sapra@pfizer.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) represent a promising modality for the treatment of cancer. The therapeutic strategy is to deliver a potent drug preferentially to the tumor and not normal tissues by attaching the drug to an antibody that recognizes a tumor antigen. The selection of antigen targets is critical to enabling a therapeutic window for the ADC and has proven to be surprisingly complex. We surveyed the tumor and normal tissue expression profiles of the targets of ADCs currently in clinical development. Our analysis demonstrates a surprisingly broad range of expression profiles and the inability to formalize any optimal parameters for an ADC target. In this context, we discuss additional considerations for ADC target selection, including interdependencies among biophysical properties of the drug, biological functions of the target and strategies for clinical development. The TPBG (5T4) oncofetal antigen and the anti-TPBG ADC A1-mcMMAF are highlighted to demonstrate the relevance of the target's biological function. Emerging platform technologies and novel biological insights are expanding ADC target space and transforming strategies for target selection.

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Drug DesignAntibodies, MonoclonalAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorDatabases, GeneticHumansImmunoconjugatesMembrane ProteinsMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsProteomeTranscriptomeAntibodies, MonoclonalAntineoplastic AgentsImmunoconjugatesMembrane ProteinsProteome5T4A1-mcMMAFADCantibody-drug conjugatesite-specific conjugation

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