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ArticleScientific reports2018

Assessing the Feasibility of Neutralizing Osteopontin with Various Therapeutic Antibody Modalities.

Vahid Farrokhi, Jeffrey R Chabot, Hendrik Neubert, Zhiyong Yang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vahid FarrokhiBiomedicine Design, Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Andover, Massachusetts, 01810, USA.
Jeffrey R ChabotBiomedicine Design, Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA.
Hendrik NeubertBiomedicine Design, Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Andover, Massachusetts, 01810, USA.
Zhiyong YangInflammation and Immunology Research Unit, Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA. zhiyong.yang@pfizer.com.
Pfizer (United States) · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteopontin is a secreted glycophosphoprotein that is highly implicated in many physiological and pathological processes such as biomineralization, cell-mediated immunity, inflammation, fibrosis, cell survival, tumorigenesis and metastasis. Antibodies against osteopontin have been actively pursued as potential therapeutics for various diseases by pharmaceutical companies and academic laboratories. Many studies have demonstrated the efficacy of osteopontin inhibition in a variety of preclinical models of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, but clinical utility has not yet been demonstrated. To evaluate the feasibility of osteopontin neutralization with antibodies in a clinical setting, we measured its physiological turnover rate in humans, a sensitive parameter required for mechanistic pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling of biotherapeutics. Results from a stable isotope-labelled amino acid pulse-chase study in healthy human subjects followed by mass spectrometry showed that osteopontin undergoes very rapid turnover. PK/PD modeling and simulation of different theoretical scenarios reveal that achieving sufficient target coverage using antibodies can be very challenging mostly due to osteopontin's fast turnover, as well as its relatively high plasma concentrations in human. Therapeutic antibodies against osteopontin would need to be engineered to have much extended PK than conventional antibodies, and be administered at high doses and with short dosing intervals.

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AnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingFeasibility StudiesHumansModels, BiologicalOsteopontinAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingOsteopontin

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PMID29773891
PMCPMC5958109
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