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ReviewAntibody therapeutics2022

Strategies to mitigate the on- and off-target toxicities of recombinant immunotoxins: an antibody engineering perspective.

Mengyu Li, Sen Mei, Yi Yang, Yuelei Shen, Lei Chen

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Review in Antibody therapeutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A proimmunotoxin nanodrug targeting AIDS-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2026
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  7. Advances in Nanobody-Based Platforms for Precision Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2025
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  13. Cancer therapy with antibodies.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mengyu LiDepartment of Postgraduate, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
Sen MeiBiotherapeutics, Biocytogen Jiangsu Co. Ltd, Nantong, China.
Yi YangJoint Graduate School, Yangtze Delta Drug Advanced Research Institute, Nantong, China.
Yuelei ShenJoint Graduate School, Yangtze Delta Drug Advanced Research Institute, Nantong, China.
Lei ChenBiotherapeutics, Biocytogen Jiangsu Co. Ltd, Nantong, China.
Beijing Biocytogen (China) · CNJiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted cancer therapies using immunotoxins have achieved remarkable efficacy in hematological malignancies. However, the clinical development of immunotoxins is also faced with many challenges like anti-drug antibodies and dose-limiting toxicity issues. Such a poor efficacy or safety ratio is also the major hurdle in the research and development of antibody-drug conjugates. From an antibody engineering perspective, various strategies were summarized or proposed to tackle the notorious on-target off-tumor toxicity issues, including passive strategy (XTENylation of immunotoxins) and active strategies (modulating the affinity and valency of the targeting moiety of immunotoxins, conditionally activating immunotoxins in the tumor microenvironments and reconstituting split toxin to reduce systemic toxicity, etc.). By modulating the functional characteristics of the targeting moiety and the toxic moiety of immunotoxins, selective tumor targeting can be augmented while sparing the healthy cells in normal tissues expressing the same target of interest. If successful, the improved therapeutic index will likely help to address the dose-limiting toxicities commonly observed in the clinical trials of various immunotoxins.

Indexed as

antibody-drug conjugateconditionally active biologicsimmunotoxinoff-target toxicityon-target toxicitysplit toxintherapeutic index

Identifiers

PMID35928456
PMCPMC9344849
OpenAlexW4283016520

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