ArticleCell death & disease2021
Development of a bispecific immune engager using a recombinant malaria protein.
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- Malaria and cancer: common features and interactions.Trends in parasitology · 2026Review
- Parasite in cancer therapy: molecular mechanisms and translational potential.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Protein catenation potentiates antitumor activity of malaria VAR2CSA navigation CAR-T cells in a mouse model of hematological malignancies.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Article
- Glycan Profiling Identifies Chondroitin-4-sulfate as a Biomarker for Platinum Response and Therapeutic Target in Ovarian Cancer.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Transient CAR T cells with specificity to oncofetal glycosaminoglycans in solid tumors.EMBO molecular medicine · 2024Article
- Tumor-agnostic cancer therapy using antibodies targeting oncofetal chondroitin sulfate.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Bispecific T cell-engager targeting oncofetal chondroitin sulfate induces complete tumor regression and protective immune memory in mice.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2023Article
- Engineering Functional Membrane-Membrane Interfaces by InterSpy.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023Article
- Chemical and Enzymatic Methods for Post-Translational Protein-Protein Conjugation.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022Review
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19 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
As an immune evasion and survival strategy, the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite has evolved a protein named VAR2CSA. This protein mediates sequestration of infected red blood cells in the placenta through the interaction with a unique carbohydrate abundantly and exclusively present in the placenta. Cancer cells were found to share the same expression of this distinct carbohydrate, termed oncofetal chondroitin sulfate on their surface. In this study we have used a protein conjugation system to produce a bispecific immune engager, V-aCD3, based on recombinant VAR2CSA as the cancer targeting moiety and an anti-CD3 single-chain variable fragment linked to a single-chain Fc as the immune engager. Conjugation of these two proteins resulted in a single functional moiety that induced immune mediated killing of a broad range of cancer cells in vitro and facilitated tumor arrest in an orthotopic bladder cancer xenograft model.
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