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Targeted antibody and cytokine cancer immunotherapies through collagen affinity

Ishihara, Jun
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Ishihara, Ako
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Sasaki, Koichi
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April 10, 2019
Science Translational Medicine

Cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) has demonstrated clinical efficacy but is frequently accompanied with severe adverse events caused by excessive and systemic immune system activation. Here, we addressed this need by targeting both the CPI antibodies anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 antibody (alpha CTLA4) + anti-programmed death ligand 1 antibody (alpha PD-L1) and the cytokine IL-2 to tumors via conjugation (for the antibodies) or recombinant fusion (for the cytokine) to a collagen-binding domain (CBD) derived from the blood protein von Willebrand factor (VWF) A3 domain, harnessing the exposure of tumor stroma collagen to blood components due to the leakiness of the tumor vasculature. We show that intravenously administered CBD protein accumulated mainly in tumors. CBD conjugation or fusion decreases the systemic toxicity of both alpha CTLA4+alpha PD-L1 combination therapy and IL-2, for example, eliminating hepatotoxicity with the CPI molecules and ameliorating pulmonary edema with IL-2. Both CBD-CPI and CBD-IL-2 suppressed tumor growth compared to their unmodified forms in multiple murine cancer models, and both CBD-CPI and CBD-IL-2 increased tumor-infiltrating CD8(+) T cells. In an orthotopic breast cancer model, combination treatment with CPI and IL-2 eradicated tumors in 9 of 13 animals with the CBD-modified drugs, whereas it did so in only 1 of 13 animals with the unmodified drugs. Thus, the A3 domain of VWF can be used to improve safety and efficacy of systemically administered tumor drugs with high translational promise.

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research article
DOI
10.1126/scitranslmed.aau3259
Web of Science ID

WOS:000464020300003

Author(s)
Ishihara, Jun
Ishihara, Ako
Sasaki, Koichi
Lee, Steve Seung-Young
Williford, John-Michael
Yasui, Mariko
Abe, Hiroyuki
Potin, Lambert  
Hosseinchi, Peyman
Fukunaga, Kazuto
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Date Issued

2019-04-10

Publisher

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE

Published in
Science Translational Medicine
Volume

11

Issue

487

Article Number

eaau3259

Subjects

Cell Biology

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Medicine, Research & Experimental

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Research & Experimental Medicine

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immune checkpoint blockade

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combination immunotherapy

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tumor microenvironment

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vascular-permeability

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t-cells

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interleukin-2

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activation

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anti-ctla-4

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pathways

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REVIEWED

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June 18, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/157854
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