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Emerging Antibody Engineering Strategies and Applications for Immunotherapy of Cancer
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Emerging Antibody Engineering Strategies and Applications for Immunotherapy of Cancer

A special issue of Antibodies (ISSN 2073-4468). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibody-Based Therapeutics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 620

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Christian Klein

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Roche Pharma Research & Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland
Interests: immunotherapy of cancer; bispecific antibodies; T cell bispecific antibodies
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Prof. Dr. Sophia Karagiannis

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Translational Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy, St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, School of Basic & Medical Biosciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK
Interests: B cell responses in cancer; antibody engineering and glycoengineering; IgE class of antibodies in cancer; antibody Fc-mediated functions in cancer; cancer immunology; cancer immunotherapy; antibody-drug conjugates; melanoma; ovarian cancer; breast cancer; allergo-oncology; ADCC; ADCP; macrophages; monocytes; NK cells
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Dr. Ann White

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Department of Translational Science, UCB Pharma, 208 Bath Road, Slough SL1 3WE, UK
Interests: immunotherapy; therapeutic antibodies; antibody isotypes; antibody engineering; T-cells; myeloid cells; NK cells; B cells; cancer immunology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the past decade, cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of hematological and solid tumors, resulting in the approval of checkpoint inhibitory antibodies, CAR-T cell therapies, and T cells engaging bispecific antibodies. Despite this progress, the lack of response and/or relapse and subsequent resistance to immunotherapy remain major clinical challenges requiring the development of optimized therapeutic agents and novel principles for targeting cancer. For this purpose, the application of state-of-the-art antibody engineering continues to play a key role. This Special Issue is intended to cover recent progress and novel concepts in the engineering of innovative antibody-based immunotherapies, including engineered checkpoint inhibitors, bispecific antibodies, immunocytokines, next-generation biologies, and engineered adoptive T cell therapy approaches.

Dr. Christian Klein
Prof. Dr. Sophia Karagiannis
Dr. Ann White
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Antibodies is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • mAb
  • bsAb
  • CPI
  • TCE
  • CPI
  • CAR-T

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Characterization of a Trispecific PD-L1 Blocking Antibody That Exhibits EGFR-Conditional 4-1BB Agonist Activity
by Laura Rubio-Pérez, Susana Frago, Marta Compte, Rocío Navarro, Seandean L. Harwood, Rodrigo Lázaro-Gorines, Marina Gómez-Rosel, Oana Hangiu, Noelia Silva-Pilipich, Lucía Vanrell, Cristian Smerdou and Luis Álvarez-Vallina
Antibodies 2024, 13(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/antib13020034 - 24 Apr 2024
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Immune checkpoint blockade has changed the treatment paradigm for advanced solid tumors, but the overall response rates are still limited. The combination of checkpoint blockade with anti-4-1BB antibodies to stimulate tumor-infiltrating T cells has shown anti-tumor activity in human trials. However, the further [...] Read more.
Immune checkpoint blockade has changed the treatment paradigm for advanced solid tumors, but the overall response rates are still limited. The combination of checkpoint blockade with anti-4-1BB antibodies to stimulate tumor-infiltrating T cells has shown anti-tumor activity in human trials. However, the further clinical development of these antibodies has been hampered by significant off-tumor toxicities. Here, we generated an anti-4-1BB/EGFR/PD-L1 trispecific antibody consisting of a triple-targeting tandem trimerbody (TT) fused to an engineered silent Fc region. This antibody (IgTT-4E1-S) was designed to combine the blockade of the PD-L1/PD-1 axis with conditional 4-1BB costimulation specifically confined to the tumor microenvironment (TME). The antibody demonstrated simultaneous binding to purified EGFR, PD-L1, and 4-1BB in solution, effective blockade of the PD-L1/PD1 interaction, and potent 4-1BB-mediated costimulation, but only in the presence of EGFR-expressing cells. These results demonstrate the feasibility of IgTT-4E1-S specifically blocking the PD-L1/PD-1 axis and inducing EGFR-conditional 4-1BB agonist activity. Full article
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Title: NK cytotoxicity displayed by NK-92 cell lines expressing combinations of two allelic variants for FCGR3
Author: Seebach
Highlights: • Eight NK-92 cell lines, each with specific FCGR3A SNP combinations, exhibited robust ADCC against diverse targets, with differences given by effector, antigen, and target cell array. • The data suggest the FcγRIIIa/CD16's involvement in direct NK cytotoxicity. • Implications for designing adoptive cancer immunotherapy with NK cells and tumor antigen-directed mAbs arise from these findings.

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