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ArticleiScience2026

Antigen-directed single domain antibody-based TNFR1 agonists elicit preferential killing of HER2-overexpressing cancer cells.

Laura Unmuth, Britta Lipinski, Alicia Hoerr, Julia Harwardt, Enrico Guarnera, Michal Szczepek, Stefan Becker, Andreas Menrad, Patrick Scheerer, Andreas Evers and 4 more

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Article in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Laura UnmuthBiomolecular Immunotherapy, Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Britta LipinskiBiomolecular Immunotherapy, Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Alicia HoerrAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Julia HarwardtAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Enrico GuarneraAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Michal SzczepekCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Stefan BeckerAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Andreas MenradAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Patrick ScheererCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Andreas EversAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Simon KrahAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Desislava ElterAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Lukas PekarAntibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Stefan ZielonkaBiomolecular Immunotherapy, Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we present a strategy to uncouple tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-like cell death induction from TNFR2 agonism in a tumor-targeted fashion. Single-domain antibodies (sdAbs) targeting TNFR1 were generated by combining camelid immunization with yeast surface display. Reformatting of resulting paratopes as bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) in a 2 + 2 manner by employing an sdAb-based paratope targeting HER2 revealed the identification of an immunocytokine-like bsAb, referred to as immunocytokine mimetic (ICM), which triggered TNF-like tumor cell death of HER2-overexpressing cancer cells as well as robust caspase-1, -3, and -8 activation in a

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cancerimmunologymolecular biology

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PMID41952996
PMCPMC13053762

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