An aptamer-antibody complex (oligobody) as a novel delivery platform for targeted cancer therapies
- Authors
- Heo, Kyun; Min, Sung-Won; Sung, Ho Jin; Kim, Han Gyul; Kim, Hyun Jung; Kim, Yun Hee; Choi, Beom Kyu; Han, Sewoon; Chung, Seok; Lee, Eun Sook; Chung, Junho; Kim, In-Hoo
- Issue Date
- 10-5월-2016
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Aptamer; Antibody; Oligobody; Cotinine; Targeted cancer therapy
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE, v.229, pp.1 - 9
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
- Volume
- 229
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 9
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/88662
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jconrel.2016.03.006
- ISSN
- 0168-3659
- Abstract
- Aptamers have recently emerged as reliable and promising targeting agents in the field of biology. However, their therapeutic potential has yet to be completely assessed due to their poor pharmacokinetics for systemic administration. Here, we describe a novel aptamer-antibody complex, designated an "oligobody" (oligomer + antibody) that may overcome the therapeutic limitations of aptamers. To provide proof-of-principle study, we investigated the druggability of oligobody in vivo using cotinine conjugated t44-OMe aptamer, which is specific for the sequence of pegaptanib, and an anti-cotinine antibody. The antibody part of oligobody resulted in extended in vivo pharmacokinetics of the aptamer without influencing its binding affinity. Moreover, the aptamer of oligobody penetrated deeply into the tumor tissues whereas the anti-VEGF antibody did not. Finally, the systemic administration of this oligobody reduced the tumor burden in a xenograft mouse model. Together, these results suggested that our oligobody strategy may represent a novel platform for rapid, low-cost and high-throughput cancer therapy. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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