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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2020

Development and Preliminary Clinical Activity of PD-1-Guided CTLA-4 Blocking Bispecific DART Molecule.

Alexey Berezhnoy, Bradley J Sumrow, Kurt Stahl, Kalpana Shah, Daorong Liu, Jonathan Li, Su-Shin Hao, Anushka De Costa, Sanjeev Kaul, Johanna Bendell and 9 more

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In one paragraph

Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03761017 (A Phase 1, First-in-Human, Open-Label, Dose Escalation and Cohort Expansion Study of MGD019, a Bispecific DART® Protein Binding PD-1 and CTLA-4 in Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Neoplasms), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03761017 phase1completednot on this map

A Phase 1, First-in-Human, Open-Label, Dose Escalation and Cohort Expansion Study of MGD019, a Bispecific DART® Protein Binding PD-1 and CTLA-4 in Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Neoplasms

TypeinterventionalSponsorMacroGenicsRan2018 to 2025Enrolled162ConditionsSquamous Cell Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer Metastatic, Cutaneous Melanoma, Colorectal CancerArmsLorigerlimab
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. A CD25×TIGIT bispecific antibody induces anti-tumor activity through selective intratumoral Treg cell depletion.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Alexey BerezhnoyMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Bradley J SumrowMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Kurt StahlMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Kalpana ShahMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Daorong LiuMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Jonathan LiMacroGenics, Brisbane, CA, USA.
Su-Shin HaoMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Anushka De CostaMacroGenics, Brisbane, CA, USA.
Sanjeev KaulBio-ClinPharm Consulting, Cranbury, NJ, USA.
Johanna BendellSarah Cannon Research Institute/Tennessee Oncology, Nashville, TN, USA.
Gregory M CoteMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Jason J LukeUPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Rachel E SanbornEarle A. Chiles Research Institute at Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA.
Manish R SharmaSTART-Midwest, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
Francine ChenMacroGenics, Brisbane, CA, USA.
Hua LiMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Gundo DiedrichMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Ezio BonviniMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
Paul A MooreMacroGenics, Rockville, MD, USA.
MacroGenics (United States) · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USProvidence Portland Medical Center · USSarah Cannon · USSouth Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics · USUPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combination immunotherapy with antibodies directed against PD-1 and CTLA-4 shows improved clinical benefit across cancer indications compared to single agents, albeit with increased toxicity. Leveraging the observation that PD-1 and CTLA-4 are co-expressed by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, an investigational PD-1 x CTLA-4 bispecific DART molecule, MGD019, is engineered to maximize checkpoint blockade in the tumor microenvironment via enhanced CTLA-4 blockade in a PD-1-binding-dependent manner.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAntibodiesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCTLA-4 AntigenHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorTumor MicroenvironmentAntibodiesCTLA-4 AntigenCTLA4 protein, humanImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorbispecificcheckpointcombinatorialCTLA-4immunotherapyPD-1pharmacodynamics

Identifiers

PMID33377134
PMCPMC7762776
OpenAlexW3115547163

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