ArticleActa pharmacologica Sinica2023
AXL antibody and AXL-ADC mediate antitumor efficacy via targeting AXL in tumor-intrinsic epithelial-mesenchymal transition and tumor-associated M2-like macrophage.
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- Dysregulation of post-translational modifications in glioma: advances in pathological mechanisms and clinical targeting strategies.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- [Role of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase AXL in Cancer Targeted Therapy Drug Resistance].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2026Review
- From pathogenesis to therapeutic targeting: new insight into TAM receptors in rheumatoid arthritis.Cell & bioscience · 2025Review
- Recent advances in TAM mechanisms in lung diseases.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Preclinical development of mecbotamab vedotin (BA3011), a novel, AXL-specific conditional active biologic antibody-drug conjugate.Antibody therapeutics · 2025Article
- AXL signaling in cancer: from molecular insights to targeted therapies.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Review
- Myeloid Mir34a suppresses colitis-associated colon cancer: characterization of mediators by single-cell RNA sequencing.Cell death and differentiation · 2025Article
- AXL: shapers of tumor progression and immunosuppressive microenvironments.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- Recent Advances of Trained immunity in Macrophages.International journal of biological sciences · 2025Review
- Combined inhibition of EZH2 and CDK4/6 perturbs endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial homeostasis and increases antitumor activity against glioblastoma.NPJ precision oncology · 2024Article
- B-cell performance in chemotherapy: Unravelling the mystery of B-cell therapeutic potential.Clinical and translational medicine · 2024Review
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- Curcumin in Cancer and Inflammation: An In-Depth Exploration of Molecular Interactions, Therapeutic Potentials, and the Role in Disease Management.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Drug conjugates for the treatment of lung cancer: from drug discovery to clinical practice.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2024Review
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Abstract
The receptor tyrosine kinase AXL is an emerging driver of cancer recurrence, while its molecular mechanism remains unclear. In this study we investigated how AXL regulated the disease progression and poor prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). We performed AXL transcriptome analysis from TCGA datasets, and found that AXL expression was significantly elevated in NSCLC and TNBC correlating with poor prognosis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and immune-tolerant tumor microenvironment (TME). Knockdown of AXL or treatment with two independent AXL antibodies (named anti-AXL and AXL02) all diminished cell migration and EMT in AXL-high expressing NSCLC and TNBC cell lines. In a mouse model of 4T1 TNBC, administration of anti-AXL antibody substantially inhibited lung metastases formation and growth, accompanied by reduced downstream signaling activation, EMT and proliferation index, as well as an increased apoptosis and activated anti-tumor immunity. We found that AXL was abundantly activated in tumor nodule-infiltrated M2-macrophages. A specific anti-AXL antibody blocked bone marrow-derived macrophage (BMDM) M2-polarization in vitro. Targeting of AXL in M2-macrophage in addition to tumor cell substantially suppressed CSF-1 production and eliminated M2-macrophage in TME, leading to a coordinated enhancement in both the innate and adaptive immunity reflecting M1-like macrophages, mature dendritic cells, cytotoxic T cells and B cells. We generated a novel and humanized AXL-ADC (AXL02-MMAE) employing a site-specific conjugation platform. AXL02-MMAE exerted potent cytotoxicity against a panel of AXL-high expressing tumor cell lines (IC
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