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ArticleScientific reports2017

A re-engineered immunotoxin shows promising preclinical activity in ovarian cancer.

Gwendlyn Kollmorgen, Klara Palme, Annette Seidl, Stefan Scheiblich, Fabian Birzele, Sabine Wilson, Christian Clemens, Edgar Voss, Martin Kaufmann, Klaus Hirzel and 4 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gwendlyn KollmorgenDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany. gwendlyn.kollmorgen@roche.com.
Klara PalmeDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Annette SeidlDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Stefan ScheiblichDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Fabian BirzeleBioinformatics, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Sabine WilsonPharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Christian ClemensDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Edgar VossDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Martin KaufmannImmunoassay Development Oncological Diseases, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Munich, Germany.
Klaus HirzelEarly Development & Rare Reagents, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Munich, Germany.
Natascha RiederPathology and Tissue Analytics, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Ben-Fillippo KrippendorffPharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Basel, Switzerland.
Frank HertingDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Gerhard NiederfellnerDiscovery Oncology, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
Roche Pharma AG (Germany) · DERoche (Switzerland) · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RG7787 is a re-engineered mesothelin-targeted immunotoxin with reduced immunogenicity composed of a humanized anti-mesothelin Fab fragment and a B-cell epitope silenced 24 kD fragment of Pseudomonas exotoxin A. High prevalence of mesothelin-positive cases and a large unmet medical need make ovarian cancer a promising indication for the clinical development of RG7787. However, ovarian cancer patients also frequently have elevated serum levels of the cancer antigen 125 (CA-125). In principle this could pose a problem, since the binding sites for CA-125 and RG7787 on mesothelin were reported to overlap. However, we show here that RG7787 can readily displace even excess amounts of CA-125 in different cellular assays. Moreover when tested in-vitro on a panel of 12 ovarian cancer cell lines, RG7787 had high cytotoxic activity on COV644, Caov-4, and SNU-119 cells and fully inhibited growth of EFO-21, KURAMOCHI, OVSAHO, and Caov-3 cells with potency values ranging from 1 to 86 pM. Finally, we evaluated the in-vivo efficacy of RG7787 in OvCa6668, a patient-derived ovarian cancer model with high levels of CA-125 expression. RG7787 had moderate monotherapy efficacy but in combination with standard chemotherapies (cisplatin, paclitaxel) achieved pronounced tumor regressions. In summary our data support clinical testing of RG7787 in ovarian cancer.

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Antineoplastic AgentsApoptosisCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationFemaleHumansImmunoconjugatesImmunotoxinsOvarian NeoplasmsAntineoplastic AgentsImmunoconjugatesImmunotoxinsLMB-100

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PMID29273809
PMCPMC5741731
OpenAlexW2778095406

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