The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates

T Journeaux, GJL Bernardes - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Many systemic cancer chemotherapies comprise a combination of drugs, yet all clinically
used antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) contain a single-drug payload. These combination …

Site-selective modification strategies in antibody–drug conjugates

SJ Walsh, JD Bargh, FM Dannheim… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) harness the highly specific targeting capabilities of an
antibody to deliver a cytotoxic payload to specific cell types. They have garnered …

Antibody–PROTAC conjugates enable HER2-dependent targeted protein degradation of BRD4

M Maneiro, N Forte, MM Shchepinova… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Targeting protein degradation with Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) is an area of
great current interest in drug discovery. Nevertheless, although the high effectiveness of …

Platinum nanocatalyst amplification: redefining the gold standard for lateral flow immunoassays with ultrabroad dynamic range

CN Loynachan, MR Thomas, ER Gray, DA Richards… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Paper-based lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) are one of the most widely used point-of-
care (PoC) devices; however, their application in early disease diagnostics is often limited …

Chemical technology principles for selective bioconjugation of proteins and antibodies

P Chauhan, V Ragendu, M Kumar, R Molla… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins are multifunctional large organic compounds that constitute an essential
component of a living system. Hence, control over their bioconjugation impacts science at …

Chemical generation of checkpoint inhibitory T cell engagers for the treatment of cancer

PA Szijj, MA Gray, MK Ribi, C Bahou, JCF Nogueira… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bispecific T cell engagers (BiTEs), a subset of bispecific antibodies (bsAbs), can promote a
targeted cancer cell's death by bringing it close to a cytotoxic T cell. Checkpoint inhibitory T …

Novel ADCs and strategies to overcome resistance to anti-HER2 ADCs

E Díaz-Rodríguez, L Gandullo-Sánchez, A Ocaña… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A proportion of breast tumors bear the oncogenic transmembrane tyrosine
kinase protein HER2. Even though therapies that target HER2 have changed the prognosis …

Chemical modification of proteins–challenges and trends at the start of the 2020s

NH Fischer, MT Oliveira, F Diness - Biomaterials Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ribosomally expressed proteins perform multiple, versatile, and specialized tasks
throughout Nature. In modern times, chemically modified proteins, including improved …

Minireview: Addressing the retro-Michael instability of maleimide bioconjugates

PA Szijj, C Bahou, V Chudasama - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2018 - Elsevier
Bioconjugation, the modification of biological macromolecules such as proteins, is an up
and coming area in the field of chemical biology. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) …