CD99 tumor associated antigen is a potential target for antibody therapy of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Autor: Kamonporn Kotemul, Watchara Kasinrerk, Nuchjira Takheaw
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 96-107 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2692-3114
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DOI: 10.37349/etat.2024.00207
Popis: Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an effective drug for targeted immunotherapy in several cancer types. However, so far, no antibody has been successfully developed for certain types of cancer, including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). T-ALL is an aggressive hematologic malignancy. T-ALL patients who are treated with chemotherapeutic drugs frequently relapse and become drug resistant. Therefore, antibody-based therapy is promising for T-ALL treatment. To successfully develop an antibody-based therapy for T-ALL, antibodies that induce death in malignant T cells but not in nonmalignant T cells are required to avoid the induction of secondary T-cell immunodeficiency. In this review, CD99 tumor associated antigen, which is highly expressed on malignant T cells and lowly expressed on nonmalignant T cells, is proposed to be a potential target for antibody therapy of T-ALL. Since certain clones of anti-CD99 mAbs induce apoptosis only in malignant T cells, these anti-CD99 mAbs might be a promising antibody drug for the treatment of T-ALL with high efficiency and low adverse effects. Moreover, over the past 25 years, many clones of anti-CD99 mAbs have been studied for their direct effects on T-ALL. These outcomes are gathered here.
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