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  2. Discovery of Potent and Selective Antibody-Drug Conjugates with Eg5 Inhibitors through Linker and Payload Optimization

Discovery of Potent and Selective Antibody-Drug Conjugates with Eg5 Inhibitors through Linker and Payload Optimization

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2019 Dec 3;10(12):1674-1679. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.9b00468.
Alexei S Karpov 1 Cristina M Nieto-Oberhuber 1 Tinya Abrams 2 Edwige Beng-Louka 1 Enrique Blanco 1 Sylvie Chamoin 1 Patrick Chene 1 Isabelle Dacquignies 1 Dylan Daniel 3 Michael P Dillon 2 Lionel Doumampouom-Metoul 1 Nikolaos Drosos 1 2 3 Pavel Fedoseev 1 Markus Furegati 1 Brian Granda 2 Robert M Grotzfeld 1 Suzanna Hess Clark 2 Emilie Joly 1 Darryl Jones 1 Marion Lacaud-Baumlin 1 Stephanie Lagasse-Guerro 1 Edward G Lorenzana 3 William Mallet 3 Piotr Martyniuk 1 Andreas L Marzinzik 1 Yannick Mesrouze 1 Sandro Nocito 1 Yoko Oei 3 Francesca Perruccio 1 Grazia Piizzi 1 Etienne Richard 1 Patrick J Rudewicz 3 Patrick Schindler 1 Mélanie Velay 1 Kristine Venstrom 3 Peiyin Wang 3 Mauro Zurini 1 Marc Lafrance 1 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Fabrikstrasse 2, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
  • 2 Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, 181 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
  • 3 Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, 5300 Chiron Way, Emeryville, California 94608, United States.
Abstract

Targeted antimitotic agents are a promising class of Anticancer therapies. Herein, we describe the development of a potent and selective antimitotic Eg5 inhibitor based antibody-drug conjugate (ADC). Preliminary studies were performed using proprietary Eg5 inhibitors which were conjugated onto a HER2-targeting antibody using maleimido caproyl valine-citrulline para-amino benzocarbamate, or MC-VC-PABC Cleavable Linker. However, the resulting ADCs lacked antigen-specificity in vivo, probably from premature release of the payload. Second-generation ADCs were then developed, using noncleavable linkers, and the resulting conjugates (ADC-4 and ADC-10) led to in vivo efficacy in an HER-2 expressing (SK-OV-3ip) mouse xenograft model while ADC-11 led to in vivo efficacy in an anti-c-KIT (NCI-H526) mouse xenograft model in a target-dependent manner.

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