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A low-toxicity IL-2-based immunocytokine retains antitumor activity despite its high degree of IL-2 receptor selectivity.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jun 2011
Gillies Stephen D, Lan Yan, Hettmann Thore, Brunkhorst Beatrice, Sun Yaping, Mueller Stefan O, Lo Kin-Ming
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The goal of the study was to engineer a form of interleukin 2 (IL-2) that, when delivered as a tumor-specific antibody fusion protein, retains the ability to stimulate an antitumor immune response via interaction with the high-affinity IL-2 receptor but has lower toxicity because of the reduced activation of the intermediate-affinity IL-2 receptor. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We investigated changes in the...
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