Strategies to mitigate the on-and off-target toxicities of recombinant immunotoxins: an antibody engineering perspective

M Li, S Mei, Y Yang, Y Shen, L Chen - Antibody therapeutics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Targeted cancer therapies using immunotoxins have achieved remarkable efficacy in
hematological malignancies. However, the clinical development of immunotoxins is also …

Cancer drug delivery systems using bacterial toxin translocation mechanisms

L Yin, H Thaker - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in targeted cancer therapy hold great promise for both research and
clinical applications and push the boundaries in finding new treatments for various currently …

Unconventional structure and mechanisms for membrane interaction and translocation of the NF-κB-targeting toxin AIP56

J Lisboa, C Pereira, RD Pinto, IS Rodrigues… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial AB toxins are secreted key virulence factors that are internalized by target cells
through receptor-mediated endocytosis, translocating their enzymatic domain to the cytosol …

An enhanced intracellular delivery platform based on a distant diphtheria toxin homolog that evades pre-existing antitoxin antibodies

SK Gill, SN Sugiman-Marangos… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
Targeted intracellular delivery of therapeutic proteins remains a significant unmet challenge
in biotechnology. A promising approach is to leverage the intrinsic capabilities of bacterial …

Map** C. difficile TcdB interactions with host cell-surface and intracellular factors using proximity-dependent biotinylation labeling

JS Ward, KJ Schreiber, J Tam, JY Youn, RA Melnyk - mBio, 2025 - journals.asm.org
Many bacterial toxins exert their cytotoxic effects by enzymatically inactivating one or more
cytosolic targets in host cells. To reach their intracellular targets, these toxins possess …

Neuropilin-1 binding peptide as fusion to diphtheria toxin induces apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer cell line

S Eghtedari, M Behdani… - Current Pharmaceutical …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
Background: Targeted cancer therapy can be considered as a new strategy to overcome the
side effects of current cancer treatments. Neuropilin-1 (NRP-1) is a transmembrane …

Structural and functional characterization of the NF-κB-targeting toxin AIP56 from Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida reveals a novel mechanism for …

J Lisboa, C Pereira, RD Pinto, IS Rodrigues… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Bacterial AB toxins are secreted virulence factors that are internalized by target cells through
receptor-mediated endocytosis, translocating their enzymatic domain to the cytosol from …

Enhanced delivery of protein therapeutics with a diphtheria toxin-like platform that evades pre-existing neutralizing immunity

SK Gill, SN Sugiman-Marangos, GL Beilhartz, E Mei… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Targeted intracellular delivery of therapeutic peptides and proteins remains an important but
unresolved goal in biotechnology. A promising approach is to engineer bacterial exotoxins …

Rapid selection of transgenic mammalian cells via diphtheria toxin resistance

D Scherer, S Honrath, JC Leroux, M Burger - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The ability to generate stable transgenic mammalian cell lines is crucial to the investigation
of gene functions and the production of recombinant proteins. Currently, mammalian cells …

Broadly conserved surface molecules mediate cellular entry of engineered bacterial toxins

R Mei - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Screening approaches have identified many peptide-based biologics with demonstrable in
vivo efficacy. However, clinical translatability is impeded by outstanding challenges in target …