Development of applicable thiol-linked antibody-drug conjugates with improved stability and therapeutic index.

ABSTRACT: Maleimides are typically applicable for coupling with reactive thiol moieties of antibodies in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) via the thiol-Michael click chemistry. Even so, the thiosuccinimide group produced in ADCs is unstable under physiological conditions, which is a unresolved issue in the ADC industry that can cause serious off-target toxicity. Committed to solving the stability defects of traditional thiosuccinimide-containing ADCs, we explored a series of linkers based on the ring-opening hydrolysates of thiosuccinimide. Meanwhile, a type of linkers based on maleamic methyl ester were used to conjugate the popular monomethyl auristatin E to an anti-HER2 antibody to generate the target ADCs, which enhances the stability and do not need to change the structure of the ideal stable me

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8933021 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature