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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2019

Multivalent Ligand Binding to Cell Membrane Antigens: Defining the Interplay of Affinity, Valency, and Expression Density.

Clifford M Csizmar, Jacob R Petersburg, Thomas J Perry, Lakmal Rozumalski, Benjamin J Hackel, Carston R Wagner

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clifford M Csizmar
Jacob R Petersburg
Thomas J Perry
Lakmal Rozumalski
Benjamin J HackelORCID 0000-0003-3561-9463
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Women's CancerP30CA077598 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Jeffrey S. Miller · 1998 to 2026
$100.4M
MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008244 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI SHIMIZU, YOJI · 1988 to 2024
$13.6M
Engineering Cell-Cell Interactions by Chemically Self-Assembled CARSR21CA185627 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI WAGNER, CARSTON R. · 2015 to 2016
$349k
Engineering Reversible Cell-Cell Interactions with Chemically Self-Assembled CARsF30CA210345 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI CSIZMAR, CLIFFORD MICHAEL · 2016 to 2019
$144k
NCI NIH HHS F30 CA210345NCI NIH HHS P30 CA077598NCI NIH HHS R21 CA185627NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature uses multivalency to govern many biological processes. The development of macromolecular and cellular therapies has largely been dependent on engineering similar polyvalent interactions to enable effective targeting. Such therapeutics typically utilize high-affinity binding domains that have the propensity to recognize both antigen-overexpressing tumors and normal-expressing tissues, leading to "on-target, off-tumor" toxicities. One strategy to improve these agents' selectivity is to reduce the binding affinity, such that biologically relevant interactions between the therapeutic and target cell will only exist under conditions of high avidity. Preclinical studies have validated this principle of avidity optimization in the context of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells; however, a rigorous analysis of this approach in the context of soluble multivalent targeting scaffolds has yet to be undertaken. Using a modular protein nanoring capable of displaying ≤8 fibronectin domains with engineered specificity for a model antigen, epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), this study demonstrates that binding affinity and ligand valency can be optimized to afford discrimination between EpCAM

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Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeHumansLigandsMaleMCF-7 CellsMiceProtein BindingSubstrate SpecificityTissue DistributionEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeLigands

Identifiers

PMID30507196
PMCPMC6520051
OpenAlexW2902465632

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