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Immunogenicity of therapeutic recombinant immunotoxins #MMPMID26864110
Mazor R; Onda M; Pastan I
Immunol Rev 2016[Mar]; 270 (1): 152-64 PMID26864110show ga
Recombinant Immunotoxins (RITs) are chimeric proteins designed to treat cancer. They are made up of an Fv or Fab that targets an antigen on a cancer cell fused to a 38 kDa portion of Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE38). Because PE38 is a bacterial protein, it is highly immunogenic in patients with solid tumors that have normal immune systems, but much less immunogenic in patients with hematologic malignancies where the immune system is suppressed. RITs have shown efficacy in refractory hairy cell leukemia and in some children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but have been much less effective in solid tumors, because neutralizing antibodies develop and prevent additional treatment cycles. In this paper we will 1) review data from clinical trials describing the immunogenicity of PE38 in different patient populations, 2) review results form clinical trials using different immunosuppressive drugs and 3) describe our efforts to make new less-immunogenic RITs by identifying and removing T and B cell epitopes to hide the RIT from the immune system.