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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2021

Engineered antibody fusion proteins for targeted disease therapy.

Aliyah B Silver, Elissa K Leonard, Joseph R Gould, Jamie B Spangler

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Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Whole-genome combinatorial gene fusions generate novel genes for advanced microbial trait development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Protein engineering: status report.Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS · 2026
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  13. Ribosome RNA Extraction and RNase R Treatment.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  19. Neurological glycogen storage diseases and emerging therapeutics.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aliyah B SilverDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Elissa K LeonardTranslational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Joseph R GouldTranslational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jamie B SpanglerTranslational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jamie.spangler@jhu.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · USBloomberg (United States) · US

Funding

Training: Molecular & Cellular Bases of Infectious DiseasesT32AI007417 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Arturo Casadevall · 1994 to 2026
$11.9M
ASPIRE - A Joint Johns Hopkins, Morgan State and Coppin State IRACDA ProgramK12GM123914 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BROWN, LISA D., SARMA, SRIDEVI V. · 2018 to 2022
$2.5M
Biomimetic Matrix for Ex Vivo and In Vivo Activation of T CellsR01EB029341 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MAO, HAI-QUAN, SCHNECK, JONATHAN P · 2020 to 2023
$1.9M
Immunoengineered nanotechnology for targeted expansion of regulatory T cellsR01EB029455 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SPANGLER, JAMIE BERTA · 2020 to 2023
$1.7M
OPTIMIZING THE PRE-CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES THROUGH GLYCOENGINEERINGR21CA249381 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SPANGLER, JAMIE BERTA, YAREMA, KEVIN J · 2020 to 2021
$410k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA249381NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007417NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB029341NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB029455NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM123914
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the FDA approval of the first therapeutic antibody 35 years ago, antibody-based products have gained prominence in the pharmaceutical market. Building on the early successes of monoclonal antibodies, more recent efforts have capitalized on the exquisite specificity and/or favorable pharmacokinetic properties of antibodies by developing fusion proteins that enable targeted delivery of therapeutic payloads which are otherwise ineffective when administered systemically. This review focuses on recent engineering and translational advances for therapeutics that genetically fuse antibodies to disease-relevant payloads, including cytokines, toxins, enzymes, neuroprotective agents, and soluble factor traps. With numerous antibody fusion proteins in the clinic and other innovative molecules poised to follow suit, these potent, multifunctional drug candidates promise to be a major player in the therapeutic development landscape for years to come.

Indexed as

Antibodies, MonoclonalCytokinesHumansAntibodies, MonoclonalCytokines

Identifiers

PMID34706833
PMCPMC8922469
OpenAlexW3208262729

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