1. Cathepsin B Nuclear Flux in a DNA-Guided Antinuclear Missile Cancer Therapy.
- Author
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Cao, Fei, Tang, Caroline, Chen, Xiaoyong, Tu, Zewei, Jin, Ying, Turk, Olivia, Nishimura, Robert, Ebens, Allen, Dubljevic, Valentina, Campbell, James, Zhou, Jiangbing, and Hansen, James
- Abstract
Some antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) bind extracellular nucleic acids released into tumor environments and are pulled into the nuclei of live cancer cells through nucleoside salvage pathways, independent of tumor-specific surface antigens. Here we show that ANA nuclear penetration induces nuclear flux by the lysosomal protease cathepsin B and leverage this mechanism to design an antinuclear antibody-drug conjugate (ANADC) with cathepsin B-labile drug linker. The ANADC targets nucleic acid exhaust from necrotic tumors and crosses membrane barriers through nucleoside salvage as a DNA-seeking and tumor agnostic antinuclear missile cancer therapy.
- Published
- 2024