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Antibody-drug conjugate using ionized CYS-linker-mmae as the potent payload shows optimal therapeutic safety
Fan, Shiyong,Li, Wei,Liu, Lianqi,Wang, Yanming,Xiao, Dian,Xie, Fei,Zhong, Wu,Zhou, Xinbo
, (2020/04/01)
Monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) is the most popular and widely used cytotoxin in the development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). However, current MMAE-based ADCs are all constructed using cleavable linkers, and this design concept still has insurmountable drawbacks. Their potential instabilities and lipophilic MMAE-induced “bystander effect” inevitably increase the toxicity to normal tissues. Herein, we overturn previous negative views of MMAE-based ADCs with non-cleavable linkers and propose using ionized L-Cysteine (Cys)-linker-MMAE as a novel payload, which can ingeniously enrich and enter tumor cells through receptor-mediated endocytosis of antibodies while its lower permeability helps to avoid further off-target toxicity. We demonstrate that Cys-linker-MMAE maintains high potency similar to free MMAE at the tubulin molecular level and can also be efficiently released in target cells. As a result, the preferred ADC (mil40-15) not only exhibits ideal plasma stability and maintains potent cytotoxicity as MMAE (IC50: 10?11 M), but also shows improved safety with lower bystander toxicity (IC50: 10?9 M), its maximum tolerated dose approaching the level of the naked antibody (160 mg/kg). This study indicated that Cys-linker-MMAE has the potential as a potent payload for ADCs, which is expected to provide novel strategies for the development of MMAE-based ADCs.
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The invention provides compounds comprising a therapeutic agent coupled to a carrier molecule, with a minimum coupling ratio of 5: 1; wherein the carrier molecule is (i) an antibody fragment or derivative thereof or (ii) an antibody mimetic or derivative thereof; and wherein the therapeutic agents are coupled onto a lysine amino acid residue; and further wherein the therapeutic agent is not a photosensitising agent. There is also provided uses, methods relating to such compounds, as well as processes for their manufacture.