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ReviewToxins2016

Glypican-3 Targeting Immunotoxins for the Treatment of Liver Cancer.

Bryan D Fleming, Mitchell Ho

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Review in Toxins, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Circumsporozoite Protein ofPharmaceutics · 2022
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  12. HCRP1, ID4 and Glypican-3: an optimal panel of biomarkers for diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2018
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  13. [A bioinformatics analysis of differentially expressed genes associated with liver cancer].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bryan D FlemingLaboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Bryan.Fleming@nih.gov.
Mitchell HoLaboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. homi@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Development of new antibody-based cancer therapiesZIABC010891 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HO, MITCHELL · 2009 to 2025
$21.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of primary liver cancer, yet no effective therapeutics exist. This review provides an overview of the recent development of recombinant immunotoxins for the treatment of glypican-3 (GPC3) expressing HCC. GPC3 is a cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycan that is overexpressed in HCC, but is absent from normal adult human tissues. Treatment of HCC with anti-GPC3 immunotoxins represents a new therapeutic option. Using phage display and hybridoma technologies, three high affinity antibodies (HN3, HS20 and YP7) have been generated against GPC3. Two of these antibodies (HN3 and HS20) have demonstrated the ability to inhibit Wnt/Yap signaling, leading to a reduction in liver cancer cell proliferation. By combining the HN3 antibody capable of inhibiting Wnt/Yap signaling with the protein synthesis inhibitory domain of the Pseudomonas exotoxin, a recombinant immunotoxin that exhibits a dual inhibitory mechanism was generated. This immunotoxin was found to be highly effective in the treatment of human HCCs in mouse xenograft models. Engineering of the toxin fragment to reduce the level of immunogenicity is currently being explored. The development of immunotoxins provides opportunities for novel liver cancer therapies.

Indexed as

AnimalsCarcinoma, HepatocellularGlypicansHumansImmunotoxinsLiver NeoplasmsGlypicansGPC3 protein, humanImmunotoxinsglypican-3 (GPC3)hepatocellular carcinomaliver cancermonoclonal antibodiespseudomonas exotoxinrecombinant immunotoxin

Identifiers

PMID27669301
PMCPMC5086635

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