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Enzymatic glycan remodeling–metal free click (GlycoConnect™) provides homogenous antibody-drug conjugates with improved stability and therapeutic index without sequence engineering

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are increasingly powerful medicines for targeted cancer therapy. Inspired by the trend to further improve their therapeutic index by generation of homogenous ADCs, we report here how the clinical-stage GlycoConnect™ technology uses the globally conserved N-glycosylati...

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Autores principales: Wijdeven, Marloes A., van Geel, Remon, Hoogenboom, Jorin H., Verkade, Jorge M. M., Janssen, Brian M. G., Hurkmans, Inge, de Bever, Laureen, van Berkel, Sander S., van Delft, Floris L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9154768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35634725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420862.2022.2078466
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Sumario:Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are increasingly powerful medicines for targeted cancer therapy. Inspired by the trend to further improve their therapeutic index by generation of homogenous ADCs, we report here how the clinical-stage GlycoConnect™ technology uses the globally conserved N-glycosylation site to generate stable and site-specific ADCs based on enzymatic remodeling and metal-free click chemistry. We demonstrate how an engineered endoglycosidase and a native glycosyl transferase enable highly efficient, one-pot glycan remodeling, incorporating a novel sugar substrate 6-azidoGalNAc. Metal-free click attachment of an array of cytotoxic payloads was highly optimized, in particular by inclusion of anionic surfactants. The therapeutic potential of GlycoConnect™, in combination with HydraSpace™ polar spacer technology, was compared to that of Kadcyla® (ado-trastuzumab emtansine), showing significantly improved efficacy and tolerability.