TAK-676: A Novel Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) Agonist Promoting Durable IFN-dependent Antitumor Immunity in Preclinical Studies.

Autor: Carideo Cunniff E; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Sato Y; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Mai D; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Appleman VA; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Iwasaki S; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan., Kolev V; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Matsuda A; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan., Shi J; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Mochizuki M; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan., Yoshikawa M; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan., Huang J; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Shen L; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Haridas S; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Shinde V; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Gemski C; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Roberts ER; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Ghasemi O; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Bazzazi H; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Menon S; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Traore T; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Shi P; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Thelen TD; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Conlon J; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Abu-Yousif AO; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Arendt C; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Shaw MH; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts., Okaniwa M; Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. (TDCA), Lexington, Massachusetts.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cancer research communications [Cancer Res Commun] 2022 Jun 23; Vol. 2 (6), pp. 489-502. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 23 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-21-0161
Abstrakt: Oncology therapies targeting the immune system have improved patient outcomes across a wide range of tumor types, but resistance due to an inadequate T-cell response in a suppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) remains a significant problem. New therapies that activate an innate immune response and relieve this suppression may be beneficial to overcome this hurdle. TAK-676 is a synthetic novel stimulator of interferon genes (STING) agonist designed for intravenous administration. Here we demonstrate that TAK-676 dose-dependently triggers activation of the STING signaling pathway and activation of type I interferons. Furthermore, we show that TAK-676 is a highly potent modulator of both the innate and adaptive immune system and that it promotes the activation of dendritic cells, natural killer cells, and T cells in preclinical models. In syngeneic murine tumor models in vivo, TAK-676 induces dose-dependent cytokine responses and increases the activation and proliferation of immune cells within the TME and tumor-associated lymphoid tissue. We also demonstrate that TAK-676 dosing results in significant STING-dependent antitumor activity, including complete regressions and durable memory T-cell immunity. We show that TAK-676 is well tolerated, exhibits dose-proportional pharmacokinetics in plasma, and exhibits higher exposure in tumor. The intravenous administration of TAK-676 provides potential treatment benefit in a broad range of tumor types. Further study of TAK-676 in first-in-human phase I trials is ongoing.
Significance: TAK-676 is a novel systemic STING agonist demonstrating robust activation of innate and adaptive immune activity resulting in durable antitumor responses within multiple syngeneic tumor models. Clinical investigation of TAK-676 is ongoing.
Competing Interests: V.A. Appleman reports personal fees from Takeda Development Centers of America, Inc during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Takeda and other from Takeda outside the submitted work. V. Kolev reports other from Takeda during the conduct of the study. M. Mochizuki reports patent application WO2018/100558. S. Haridas reports personal fees from Takeda during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Takeda outside the submitted work. T.D. Thelen reports other from Takeda outside the submitted work. A.O. Abu-Yousif reports other from Takeda during the conduct of the study. M. Okaniwa reports patent application WO2018/100558. No other disclosures were reported.
(© 2022 The Authors; Published by the American Association for Cancer Research.)
Databáze: MEDLINE