Journal
BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 510-517Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.2c00576
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Cysteines are commonly used as handles to synthesize antibody-drug conjugates, and tyrosinase can be used to attach phenolic cargo to cysteines engineered on antibody surfaces. This method provides more stable linkages and can be used for constructing antibody conjugates with cytotoxic payloads and attaching various cargos.
Cysteines are routinely used as site-specific handles to synthesize antibody-drug conjugates for targeted immunotherapy applications. Michael additions between thiols and maleimides are some of the most common methods for modifying cysteines, but these functional groups can be difficult to prepare on scale, and the resulting linkages have been shown to be reversible under some physiological conditions. Here, we show that the enzyme tyrosinase, which oxidizes conveniently accessed phenols to afford reactive ortho-quinone intermediates, can be used to attach phenolic cargo to cysteines engineered on antibody surfaces. The resulting linkages between the thiols and ortho-quinones are shown to be more resistant than maleimides to reversion under physiological conditions. Using this approach, we construct antibody conjugates bearing cytotoxic payloads, which exhibit targeted cell killing, and further demonstrate this method for the attachment of a variety of cargo to antibodies, including fluorophores and oligonucleotides.
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