Takahiro Ishiguro, Yuji Sano, Shun-Ichiro Komatsu, Mika Kamata-Sakurai, Akihisa Kaneko, Yasuko Kinoshita, Hirotake Shiraiwa, Yumiko Azuma, Toshiaki Tsunenari, Yoko Kayukawa, Yukiko Sonobe, Natsuki Ono, Kiyoaki Sakata, Toshihiko Fujii, Yoko Miyazaki, Mizuho Noguchi, Mika Endo, Asako Harada, Werner Frings, Etsuko Fujii, Eitaro Nanba, Atsushi Narita, Akihisa Sakamoto, Tetsuya Wakabayashi, Hiroko Konishi, Hiroaki Segawa, Tomoyuki Igawa, Takashi Tsushima, Hironori Mutoh, Yukari Nishito, Mina Takahashi, Lorraine Stewart, Ehab ElGabry, Yoshiki Kawabe, Masaki Ishigai, Shuichi Chiba, Masahiro Aoki, Kunihiro Hattori, Junichi Nezu
Cancer care is being revolutionized by immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, engineered T cell transfer, and cell vaccines. The bispecific T cell-redirecting antibody (TRAB) is one such promising immunotherapy, which can redirect T cells to tumor cells by engaging CD3 on a T cell and an antigen on a tumor cell. Because T cells can be redirected to tumor cells regardless of the specificity of T cell receptors, TRAB is considered efficacious for less immunogenic tumors lacking enough neoantigens...
October 4, 2017: Science Translational Medicine