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Public on Jul 30, 2024 |
| Title |
Engineered cytokine/antibody fusion proteins improve delivery of IL-2 to pro-inflammatory cells and promote antitumor activity |
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Homo sapiens |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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| Summary |
Progress in cytokine engineering is driving therapeutic translation by overcoming these proteins’ inherent limitations as drugs. The interleukin-2 (IL-2) cytokine harbors great promise as an immune stimulant for cancer treatment. However, the cytokine’s concurrent activation of both pro- inflammatory immune effector cells and anti-inflammatory regulatory T cells, toxicity at high doses, and short serum half-life limit clinical application. One promising approach to improve the selectivity, safety, and longevity of IL-2 is complexation with anti-IL-2 antibodies that bias the cytokine towards activation of immune effector cells. Although this strategy shows therapeutic potential in preclinical cancer models, clinical translation of a cytokine/antibody complex is complicated by challenges in formulating a multi-protein drug and concerns about complex stability. Here, we introduce a versatile approach to designing intramolecularly assembled single- agent fusion proteins (immunocytokines, ICs) comprising IL-2 and a biasing anti-IL-2 antibody that directs the cytokine’s activities towards immune effector cells. We establish the optimal IC construction and further engineer the cytokine/antibody affinity to improve immune biasing function. We demonstrate that our IC preferentially activates and expands immune effector cells, leading to superior antitumor activity compared to natural IL-2, both alone and in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Moreover, therapeutic efficacy is observed without inducing toxicity, as measured by weight loss, pulmonary edema, cytokine secretion, and liver damage markers. This work presents a roadmap for the design and translation of cytokine/antibody fusion proteins.
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| Overall design |
human CD8+ T cells were cultured in complete RPMI 1640 medium and stimulated for 4 or 24 hr with 1 µM IL-2 or 0.5 µM (equivalent stoichiometric quantity) Control IC or F10 IC.
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| Contributor(s) |
Leonard EK, Tomala J, Gould JR, Leff MI, Lin J, Li P, Porter MJ, Johansen ER, Thompson L, Cao SD, Hou S, Henclova T, Huliciak M, Sargunas PR, Fabilane CS, Vaněk O, Kovar M, Schneider B, Raimondi G, Leonard WJ, Spangler JB |
| Citation(s) |
39115939 |
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| Submission date |
Jul 29, 2024 |
| Last update date |
Oct 29, 2024 |
| Contact name |
Jyothi Padiadpu |
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NIH
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| Department |
NHLBI
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Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and the Immunology Center
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| Street address |
9000 Rockville Pike
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Bethesda |
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MD |
| ZIP/Postal code |
20892 |
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USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL24676 |
Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (Homo sapiens) |
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| Samples (14)
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| BioProject |
PRJNA1141569 |
| Supplementary file |
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Download |
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| GSE273415_total.reads.IL2.F10.4420.txt.gz |
1.6 Mb |
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TXT |
SRA Run Selector |
| Raw data are available in SRA |
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