A Bispecific METxMET Antibody-Drug Conjugate with Cleavable Linker Is Processed in Recycling and Late Endosomes.

ABSTRACT: Most antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) approved for the treatment of cancer contain protease-cleavable linkers. ADCs that traffic to lysosomes traverse highly acidic late endosomes, while ADCs that recycle to the plasma membrane traffic through mildly acidic sorting and recycling endosomes. Although endosomes have been proposed to process cleavable ADCs, the precise identity of the relevant compartments and their relative contributions to ADC processing remain undefined. Here we show that a METxMET biparatopic antibody internalizes into sorting endosomes, rapidly traffics to recycling endosomes, and slowly reaches late endosomes. In agreement with the current model of ADC trafficking, late endosomes are the primary processing site of MET, EGFR, and prolactin receptor ADCs. Interestingly, recy

SUBMITTER: Perez Bay AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9978886 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature