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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Fluorogenic Platform for Real-Time Imaging of Subcellular Payload Release in Antibody-Drug Conjugates.

Ferran Nadal-Bufi, Paulin L Salomon, Fabio de Moliner, Kathy A Sarris, Zhi Wang, Rachel D Wills, Violeta L Marin, Xiaona Shi, Kuo Zhou, Zhongyuan Wang and 5 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Conditionally Activatable Antibody Platforms: Mechanisms, Modalities, and Clinical Translation Potential.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Ferran Nadal-BufiCentre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-1156-3410
Paulin L SalomonAbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, United States.
Fabio de MolinerCentre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, U.K.
Kathy A SarrisAbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States.
Zhi WangAbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States.
Rachel D WillsAbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States.
Violeta L MarinAbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States.
Xiaona ShiWuXi AppTec, 168 Nanhai Road, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area TEDA, Tianjin 300457, China.
Kuo ZhouWuXi AppTec, 168 Nanhai Road, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area TEDA, Tianjin 300457, China.
Zhongyuan WangWuXi AppTec, 168 Nanhai Road, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area TEDA, Tianjin 300457, China.
Zhou XuWuXi AppTec, 168 Nanhai Road, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area TEDA, Tianjin 300457, China.
Michael J McPhersonAbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, United States.
Christopher C MarvinAbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4984-8435
Adrian D HobsonAbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3948-0577
Marc VendrellCentre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-5392-9740

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) represent promising therapeutic constructs to enhance the selective delivery of drugs to target cells; however, attaining precise control over the timing and location of payload release remains challenging due to the complex intracellular processes that define ADC internalization, trafficking, and linker cleavage. In this study, we present novel real-time fluorogenic probes to monitor both subcellular dynamics of ADC trafficking and payload release. We optimized a tandem molecular design of sequential pH- and enzyme-activatable naphthalimide fluorophores to (1) track their subcellular localization along the endolysosomal pathway and (2) monitor linker cleavage with OFF-to-ON fluorescence switches. Live-cell imaging microscopy revealed that fluorogenic ADCs can traffic to the lysosomes and yet require residence time in these subcellular compartments for efficient linker cleavage. Notably, the compact size of fluorogenic naphthalimides did not impair the recognition of target cell surface reporters or the kinetics of payload release. This modular platform is applicable to many ADCs and holds promise to inform their rational design for optimal release profiles and therapeutic efficacy.

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Fluorescent DyesImmunoconjugatesDrug LiberationHumansLysosomesNaphthalimidesOptical ImagingFluorescent DyesImmunoconjugatesNaphthalimides

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PMID39965918
PMCPMC11887046

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