A guide to taming a toxin--recombinant immunotoxins constructed from Pseudomonas exotoxin A for the treatment of cancer.

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Published in FEBS J on June 02, 2011

Authors

John E Weldon1, Ira Pastan

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4264, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

CAT-8015 in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia or Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma | NCT00659425

Safety Study of CAT-8015 Immunooxin in Patients With HCL With Advance Disease | NCT00462189

Phase II Trial of LMB-2, Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide for Adult T-Cell Leukemia | NCT00924170

LMB-2 to Treat Hairy Cell Leukemia | NCT00321555

A Phase I Trial of SS1 (dsFv) PE38 With Paclitaxel, Carboplatin, and Bevacizumab in Subjects With Unresectable Non-Small Cell Lung Adenocarcinoma | NCT01051934

NCT00575770

A Phase I, Multicenter Dose Escalation Study in Patients With Leukemia | NCT00586924

Anti-Tac(Fv)-PE38 (LMB-2) to Treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia | NCT00077922

Anti-Tac(Fv)-PE38 (LMB-2) to Treat Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas | NCT00080535

NCT01086644

NCT01041118

Safety Study of CAT-8015 Immunotoxin in Patients With CLL, PLL or SLL With Advance Disease | NCT00457860

Safety Study of CAT-8015 Immunoxin in Patients With NHL With Advance Disease (NHL) | NCT00515892

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A flow cytometry method to quantitate internalized immunotoxins shows that taxol synergistically increases cellular immunotoxins uptake. Cancer Res (2010) 1.21

Identification and elimination of an immunodominant T-cell epitope in recombinant immunotoxins based on Pseudomonas exotoxin A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.20

Pulsed high-intensity focused ultrasound enhances uptake of radiolabeled monoclonal antibody to human epidermoid tumor in nude mice. J Nucl Med (2008) 1.20

Megakaryocyte potentiation factor cleaved from mesothelin precursor is a useful tumor marker in the serum of patients with mesothelioma. Clin Cancer Res (2006) 1.19

Cytotoxicity of the anti-CD22 immunotoxin HA22 (CAT-8015) against paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Br J Haematol (2010) 1.19

POTE paralogs are induced and differentially expressed in many cancers. Cancer Res (2006) 1.19

Induction of caspase-dependent programmed cell death in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia by anti-CD22 immunotoxins. Blood (2003) 1.17

Induction of hyperintense signal on T2-weighted MR images correlates with infusion distribution from intracerebral convection-enhanced delivery of a tumor-targeted cytotoxin. AJR Am J Roentgenol (2007) 1.16

High shed antigen levels within tumors: an additional barrier to immunoconjugate therapy. Clin Cancer Res (2008) 1.16

Characterization of overlapping XAGE-1 transcripts encoding a cancer testis antigen expressed in lung, breast, and other types of cancers. Mol Cancer Ther (2002) 1.15

Antitumor activity of SS(dsFv)PE38 and SS1(dsFv)PE38, recombinant antimesothelin immunotoxins against human gynecologic cancers grown in organotypic culture in vitro. Clin Cancer Res (2002) 1.15

Identification of novel human CTL epitopes and their agonist epitopes of mesothelin. Clin Cancer Res (2005) 1.14

Inhibition of mesothelin-CA-125 interaction in patients with mesothelioma by the anti-mesothelin monoclonal antibody MORAb-009: Implications for cancer therapy. Lung Cancer (2009) 1.13

Impairment of reward-related learning by cholinergic cell ablation in the striatum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.12

Convection-enhanced delivery of free gadolinium with the recombinant immunotoxin MR1-1. J Neurooncol (2009) 1.11

CAT-8015: a second-generation pseudomonas exotoxin A-based immunotherapy targeting CD22-expressing hematologic malignancies. Clin Cancer Res (2009) 1.10

Five POTE paralogs and their splice variants are expressed in human prostate and encode proteins of different lengths. Gene (2004) 1.10

Immunotoxin complementation of HAART to deplete persisting HIV-infected cell reservoirs. PLoS Pathog (2010) 1.10

Evolution and expression of chimeric POTE-actin genes in the human genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.09

NGEP, a prostate-specific plasma membrane protein that promotes the association of LNCaP cells. Cancer Res (2007) 1.08

High expression of a cytokeratin-associated protein in many cancers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.08

Segregation and coactivation of developing neocortical layer 1 neurons. J Neurosci (2003) 1.08

Removal of B cell epitopes as a practical approach for reducing the immunogenicity of foreign protein-based therapeutics. Adv Drug Deliv Rev (2009) 1.07

Human CTLs to wild-type and enhanced epitopes of a novel prostate and breast tumor-associated protein, TARP, lyse human breast cancer cells. Cancer Res (2004) 1.07

A novel high-affinity human monoclonal antibody to mesothelin. Int J Cancer (2011) 1.06

New immunotoxins targeting CD123, a stem cell antigen on acute myeloid leukemia cells. J Immunother (2007) 1.06

A novel human monoclonal antibody that binds with high affinity to mesothelin-expressing cells and kills them by antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Mol Cancer Ther (2009) 1.05

Aberrant Notch1-dependent effects on glomerular parietal epithelial cells promotes collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis with progressive podocyte loss. Kidney Int (2013) 1.04

Identification of a set of seven genes for the monitoring of minimal residual disease in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Clin Cancer Res (2006) 1.04

Pentostatin plus cyclophosphamide safely and effectively prevents immunotoxin immunogenicity in murine hosts. Clin Cancer Res (2011) 1.04

FCRL1 on chronic lymphocytic leukemia, hairy cell leukemia, and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a target of immunotoxins. Blood (2007) 1.03

A model for obesity and gigantism due to disruption of the Ankrd26 gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.03

A recombinant immunotoxin targeting CD22 with low immunogenicity, low nonspecific toxicity, and high antitumor activity in mice. J Immunother (2010) 1.03

Selective elimination of human regulatory T lymphocytes in vitro with the recombinant immunotoxin LMB-2. J Immunother (2006) 1.03

Fc receptor-like 3 protein expressed on IL-2 nonresponsive subset of human regulatory T cells. J Immunol (2009) 1.02

PATE gene clusters code for multiple, secreted TFP/Ly-6/uPAR proteins that are expressed in reproductive and neuron-rich tissues and possess neuromodulatory activity. J Biol Chem (2008) 1.02

Ankrd26 gene disruption enhances adipogenesis of mouse embryonic fibroblasts. J Biol Chem (2011) 1.02

A primate-specific POTE-actin fusion protein plays a role in apoptosis. Apoptosis (2009) 1.02

Cytotoxic activity of immunotoxin SS1P is modulated by TACE-dependent mesothelin shedding. Cancer Res (2011) 1.01

MRP9, an unusual truncated member of the ABC transporter superfamily, is highly expressed in breast cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 1.00

Angiotensin receptor blocker protection against podocyte-induced sclerosis is podocyte angiotensin II type 1 receptor-independent. Hypertension (2010) 0.99