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in an attempt to overcome the pitfalls of previously developed mAbs. PS A1 is a zwit­terionic polysaccharide (ZPS) capable of triggering a T-cell immune response in the absence of peptides, proteins, or other nonsugar-based material. When compared to commercially available anti-Tn IgM monoclonal Tn-218, using a glycan array, KT-IgM-8 showed a dramatic difference in being able to bind to monovalent Tn at varying concentrations, while commercially available Tn-218 showed virtually no binding to monovalent Tn invitro and induced protection through complement­mediated cytotoxicity in invivo tumor mouse models[43]. MCF-7, a human breast cancer cell line, was xenographed into SCID mice, and KT-IgM-8 showed 40% tumor reduction compared to the control[43].
7.5 mAbs from Preclinical to Clinical Studies
Over the recent years, several mAbs targeting a variety of different types of TACAs have given promising results in preclinical studies and are progressing to clinical trials[44]. Among the TACAs that are being studied here, we will discuss the globo series, blood group, and mucin-attached glycans in more detail. As Unituxin is an anti-GD2mAb and is part of the gangliosides, we will discuss this section later with Unituxin[45].
7.6 Globo Series
This group is made up of stage-specific embryonic antigen 3 (SSEA), SSEA-4, and Globo-H and is found in several types of cancers, such as breast, gastric, lung, ovar­ian, endometrial, pancreatic, and prostate[46, 47]. Globo-H is the most common antigen in the series[48]. Anti-Globo-H mAb OBI-888 is currently in phase II clini­cal trials and has shown promising results toward more than five types of cancer. OBI-888 has shown excellent tumor growth inhibition, which tested for 85% toward breast cancer being the highest and the lowest being 43% for lung can­cer[49, 50]. This study showed inhibition of tumor growth in over 150 patients tested[51].
7.6.1 Blood Group
Type I and Type II Lewis antigens are terminal fucosylated carbohydrate structures belonging to the human histoblood group system. LewisA (LeA), LewisB (LeB), LewisX (LeX), and LewisY (LeY) are synthetized in exocrine epithelial cells by fuco­syltransferase (FUT) enzymes [52]. The antigens only differ in their glycosidic bonds (Galβ1-3GlcNAc and Galβ1-4GlcNAc)[53]. Teng and coworkers showed that Mab216 is highly selective for blood group antigen CDIM that is located on human B cells. This antibody was then tested in a Phase 1 clinical trial, showing good
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efficacy against lymphoblastic leukemia[20]. When the Mab216was progressed to phase 2, the scale-up and production proved to be challenging and prevented fur­ther development. The only FDA-approved IgM antibody was called NeutroSpec
TM
otherwise known as fanolesomab-Tc99M, which was approved for use in 2004. Fanolesomab was a murine-based monoclonal IgM antibody labeled with technetium-99m and directed toward 3-fucosyl-N-acetyl lactosamine found on CD15[19]. When clinical trials were first conducted, the results showed sufficient public safety, so fanolesomab was approved for further clinical trials that eventually led to FDA approval. The main use was for scintigraphic imaging of patients who showed symptoms of appendicitis. Ultimately, fanolesomab was removed from the market by the FDA in 2005, when reports arose that patients taking the drug were suffering from serious cardiopulmonary events, leading to fanolesomab being dis­continued by Palatin Technologies in 2008[18, 19, 21].
7.6.2 Mucin-Attached Glycans
One of the more studied groups are the mucin-attached glycans, which consist of Tn (GalNAc), Tf (Galβ1-3GalNAc), and STn (Neu5Acα2-6GalNAc). These antigens are attractive targets because of their absence from healthy tissues[52–55]. STn is the most targeted of all the mucin glycans, as it has a lot of notoriety with Theratope, which was tested in Phase 3 for breast cancer[56]. The first anti-STn mAb was ini­tially used for cancer detection rather than vaccine[57]. After being humanized, the mAb CC49 showed a modest immune response and a 40% increase in survival vs. controls[58]. An anti-Tn mAb, Gatipotuzumab, was tested in a phase 1 study and showed that it was safe and well tolerated. Gatipotuzumab was moved to phase 2 and failed to demonstrate an improvement vs. the placebo in progression-free sur­vival[59, 60]. Gatipotuzumab in combination with anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibody was tested in a Phase 1 study and showed promising results for colorectal cancer patients. This study went onto Phase 2 and is waiting for the results[61].
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7.7   New Treatment Options forNeuroblastoma
In the United States, neuroblastomas affect 1in 100 000 children, and approximately 700 children under the age of 15 suffer from the disease annually [62, 63]. Approximately 50% of the diagnosed patients are in advanced stage IV of the dis­ease, and the five-year survival rate of these patients is 20–25%[64]. Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children[65]. It accounts for about 7% of children with cancer who are under the age of 15. About 90% of patients diag­nosed with neuroblastoma are under the age of 5, and about 40% of diagnosed patients will have high-risk neuroblastoma[66]. Relapse in neuroblastoma tumor cells is not only probable but also highly incurable [63, 67]. Therefore, novel
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therapeutic strategies are highly needed. Frequent relapses are often caused by the loss of heterozygosity of 1p and 11p chromosomes and partial deletions of other chromosomes, which can lead to a loss of critical genes, leaving patients more sus­ceptible to further gene mutations, cancer, and other diseases. Other major prob­lems can be due to amplification of tumor cell growth because of mutations in the MYCN oncogene, which controls the growth, proliferation, and apoptosis of cell, and metastasis of cancerous cells in the liver, bone, and bone marrow [67]. Treatments using dinutuximab or naxitamab are necessary because the complex and aggressive nature of neuroblastoma tumor cells allows them to avoid regular immune responses by evading T cells through down-regulation or losing human leukocyte antigen (HLA) expression. This is a challenge because it interferes with the afferent arm, with the T cells’ ability to find neuroblastoma tumor cells, and with the cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) effector phase of adaptive immunity. Cellular immunity is further impaired by soluble inhibitors such as FAS ligand (FASL) and gangliosides, pro-tumor macrophages, myeloid suppressor cells, and regulatory T cells[68]. Neuroblastoma patients tend to be young with underdeveloped or com­promised immune systems because of the burden of living with an aggressive, high­risk disease and receiving intensive chemotherapy, radiation, or other rigorous treatment that can strain the patient [69]. Because neuroblastoma is so poorly immunogenic for T cells, the patient’s natural immune responses and common can­cer treatments, such as chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation, are not as effective in high-risk neuroblastoma patients[66]. Before immunotherapy options like Unituxin were available, about 40% of high-risk neuroblastoma patients were able to achieve long-term remission, and the 5-year event-free survival (EFS) rates were less than 50%[62, 65, 70]. Because complete eradication of neuroblastoma is rarely possible, dinutuximab is used as a second-line treatment to target any surviving cancer cells and prevent relapse, especially in patients with an advanced version of the disease. In therapeutic trials, patients who received Unituxin had significantly higher EFS rates and overall survival (OS) rates when compared to standard therapy options without Unituxin. EFS rates increased from about 46% to 66%, and OS rates increased from about 75% to 86%[62, 66, 71]. Therefore, including Unituxin treatment cycles as part of the postconsolidation therapy for a patient with high-risk neuroblastoma would help improve patient survival[70].
7.7.1  History ofUnituxin
Milstein and Koehler invented monoclonal antibody technology in 1975, but Unituxin was discovered in the late 1980s by Alice Yu, M.D., at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center[72–75]. Dr. Yu’s research used laboratory­made mAbs as a possible treatment for neuroblastoma. Many versions of the mAbs were tested before a final version, ch14.18, was settled on[74]. In 2001, Dr. Yu and colleagues in the Children’s Oncology Group tested ch14.18monoclonal antibody on neuroblastoma patients[71]. For this immunotherapy treatment, children were initially treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and stem cell transplantation before
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ch14.18was administered[70, 71]. Immune-stimulating agents known as GM-CSF and interleukin 2 (IL-2) were administered with the mAb to increase the drug’s effectiveness at killing tumor cells. The NCI’s National Clinical Trails Network was a major contributor to these trials [70]. Also, the NCI’s Biopharmaceutical Development Program (BDP) produced the ch14.18 for clinical trials and worked on its process development in order to make the drug available for eligible children suf­fering from high-risk neuroblastoma. In 2010, NCI partnered with a branch of the United Therapeutics Corporation (UTC) to manufacture dinutuximab and gain regulatory approval from the FDA. UTC conducted safety, efficacy, and optimal use studies and gained licensure to manufacture and market dinutuximab under the brand name Unituxin. In 2015, the FDA and European Commission approved Unituxin as a treatment option for pediatric cancer[1, 71, 76].
7.7.2  What is Unituxin?
Dinutuximab, also named ch14.18 or Unituxin, is a chimeric human–mouse IgG mAb [67, 72, 73, 77]. It is composed of murine variable heavy- and light-chain regions and human constant regions[78–81]. All approved therapeutic mAbs are N-glycosylated in the Fc region[80]. For Unituxin, glycosylation of the conserved asparagine position 297 (Asn-297) occurs in the heavy-chain CH2 domain of the Fc region. Because the Fc region is the receptor-binding region, posttranslational modi­fications in this region create the molecule’s high heterogeneity and affect the func­tions of the key antibody effectors[72].
United Therapeutics manufactures dinutuximab by industrial fermentation using SP2/O, which is a murine myeloma cell line[71, 82]. However, mAbs produced in nonhuman cells tend to express oligosaccharides that are not found in normal IgG serum, and their presence can cause immunogenicity issues in patients [72]. Even with the potential issues, Unituxin is used as a second-line treatment for children with high-risk neuroblastoma because of its ability to target neuroblastoma cells by binding to the glycolipid antigen disialoganglioside, known as GD2, which is highly expressed on the neuroblastoma cell’s surface[71, 76]. The chemical structure of GD2 is shown in Figure7.2. The binding of dinutuximab and GD2 to neuroblastoma induces tumor cell lysis, apoptosis, and proliferation inhibition. During invitro testing, dinutuximab was shown to bind to tumor cells and was more effective at inducing lysis of tumor cells than the murine version 14.G2a[71]. This cell death occurs through two major
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neuroblastoma. (a) is the CDC pathway, and (b) is the ADCC pathway. (a) CDC: Complement dependent cytotoxicity. (b) ADCC: Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Source: Adapted from Matthay etal.[85].
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pathways: ADCC and CDC [67, 69]. Figure 7.3 illustrates these two pathways.
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Following the mechanisms of the ADCC pathway, the mAb’s Fc fragment binds the Fc receptors on monocytes, macrophages, granulocytes, or natural killer (NK) cells, allowing these cells to engulf and destroy bound tumor cells. NK cells can also secrete cytokines that lead to cell death [69, 85, 86]. The Fc-receptors for granulocytes are FcgRIIA/CD32, and the Fc-receptors for NK cells are FcRIIIA/CD16A. In CDC, C1q binds to the Fc section of mAbs bound to the tumor cells. This binding activates a complement cascade and forms membrane attack complexes to create pores in the cell membrane and cause lysis of the tumor cells[87]. Following the mechanisms of the CDC pathway, the mAb binds to the receptor and initiates the complement cascade to clear damaged cells and microbes from the system and attack the cell membrane of the identified pathogen. The complement cascade causes the formation of a mem­brane attack complex to make a hole within the tumor cell membrane, causing cell lysis and death[85, 86]. Unituxin is an intravenous drug that is used as a postconsoli­dation therapy when combined with GM-CSF, IL-2, and isotretinoin (RA) [78, 82]. The recommended dosage for this drug is 17.5 20-hour period for four consecutive days in a four-week cycle[41]. When dinutuximab
mg a day administered over a 10-to
was tested using the Scatchard analysis, it showed acceptable binding to a series of neuroblastoma cell lines and the melanoma M-21 cell line with a K
value of 11.2 nM
D
and nonspecific binding between 5% and 10% total bound[88].
Despite problems and limitations, several anti-GD2 antibodies have been devel­oped. Four, in particular, have been extensively studied in clinical studies: 3F8, hu3F8, ch14.18, and hu14.18[83]. Ch14.18 (dinutuximab) was the first antibody to
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be approved by the FDA for pediatric solid tumor and high-risk neuroblastoma[87]. Anti-GD2mAbs work by binding to the end-terminal penta-oligosaccharide of GD2 and following the ADCC or CDC pathways to kill neuroblastoma tumor cells. Besides ADCC and CMC pathways, mAbs can enhance nonimmune-mediated effects, such as survival signal blockade and anoikis. Anoikis is the induction of apoptosis in cells. It occurs when abnormal cells detach from the extracellular matrix (ECM) and neighboring cells. In a healthy system, anoikis would remove the unhealthy or abnormal cells, but tumor cells have the ability to escape anoikis by constitutive activation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK). However, anti-GD2mAbs will dephosphorylate FAK and inhibit activation of PI3K/Akt pathways, which allows the drug to induce apoptosis and cause cancer cell death[87].
7.7.3  Challenges with Unituxin
Unituxin can cause serious adverse side reactions because it binds to GD2 expressed in both benign and malignant tissues. This means neural tissues in the central nervous system, peripheral nerves, and neuroblastoma can be affected by the drug [79]. Dinutuximab is a toxic regimen that must be infused into patients over a 20-hour period in a hospital because there is serious risk of intense pain, serious infusion reac­tions, capillary leak syndrome, and hypotension[41]. This drug can give patients an increased risk of infection, neurological eye disorders, suppression of bone marrow, electrolyte abnormalities, and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome. It is limited for use in pediatric patients because adults with melanoma who participated in dose-finding, safety, and tolerability studies experienced severe and possibly irreversible motor neu­ropathy[41, 79]. However, Unituxin was still approved because of the seriousness of the disease and the lack of alternative treatment options for high-risk neuroblas­toma[79]. Murine anti-GD2mAbs are tolerated in patients and do show antineuro­blastoma activity, but the development of HAMA response and hypersensitive reactions to injections limit how often the drug can be administered[74, 77]. Some patients had to wait months for the next round of antibody injections to be administered, which decreased the efficiency and effectiveness of the treatment. HAMA’s increase the clear­ance of murine mAbs and often cause unwanted allergic reactions and tumor penetra­tion[75]. Murine mAbs have a shorter half-life than human mAbs, and the Fc region of murine antibodies is less effective at eliciting ADCC and CDC than human antibod­ies[73, 77]. These limitations have led to advances in genetic engineering that have allowed for the development of chimeric and humanized anti-GD2mAbs[87].
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7.7.4 mAbs Binding to Neuroblastoma
The anti-GD2murine antibodies include murine IgG3 (m3F8) and murine IgG2a (14G2a). Murine 3F8 was the first anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody to be tested in patients with neuroblastoma, and it is the murine IgG3with the highest reported affinity for GD2with a K
value of 5 nM. Murine 3F8has been shown to kill neuro-
D
blastoma cells by CDC and by lymphocytes, cultured monocytes, and granulocytes. Murine 3F8 binds to Fc-receptors FcyRII and FcyRIII for neutrophil- and
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NK-mediated ADCC. The CR3 receptor also plays an important role in cytotoxic­ity[83, 87]. CDC can be enhanced by naturally occurring complex polysaccharide β-glucan (BG)[36]. This enhancement increases the adhesion of complement recep­tors on myeloid cells to natural ligands like iC3b. When m3F8 is combined with the cytokine GM-CSF, there is a greater than 60% long-term survival rate among pediat­ric patients with stage-4 high-risk neuroblastoma.
Other murine anti-GD2 antibodies include ME36.1 and 14.G2a, which have lower affinities to GD2 with K
values of 19 and 77 nM, respectively [83, 89]. While
D
ME36.1was originally obtained as a mouse IgG3, it can be class-switched to IgG2a and IgG1 variants. Also, ME36.1mostly binds to GD2, but it does have some cross­reactivity to GD3, which means that ME36.1 can be a useful antibody for targeting other tumors, such as melanoma[83]. Preclinical studies showed ME36.1-inhibiting tumor growth at the inoculation site and in the lymph nodes and lungs.
7.7.5 Chimeric and Humanized Anti-GD2 Antibodies
When creating chimeric versions of the anti-GD2mAbs, the VH and VL domains of the murine antibody are grafted onto human IgG constant domains. When creating humanized versions of the anti-GD2mAbs, a fully human monoclonal antibody is grafted with murine CDR loops and a few structurally significant residues, or a fully human monoclonal antibody with no murine residues is used[77, 83]. L72, which is a fully human IgM, was the first nonmurine anti-GD2 antibody. It was produced using the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) to transform B lymphocytes from the peripheral blood lymphocytes of melanoma patients into lymphoblastoid cell lines[83]. L72’s clinical studies showed injections caused regression in melanoma tumor cells, except for patients who had tumors with low antigenicity. After that, no further studies were reported.
ch14.18 is the chimeric form of m14.G2a, and hu14.18 is the human form. The names were derived from the original mouse isotype 14.18 IgG3. Phase 1 studies concluded the safety of both forms, with a warning about severe pain during admin­istration and other possible side effects. Phase 3 studies showed that combining ch14.18with GM-CSF and interleukin-2 can greatly increase the two-year survival rate of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma in comparison to the standard ther­apy options.
Murine 3F8 was also humanized (hu3F8) through grafting on the CDR, and it is currently in Phase 1 trials. Initial test results show a reduction in the production of HAHA and complement activation in comparison to murine 3F8[83].
7.7.6  Naxitamab asa Potential Alternative forHigh-Risk Patients
In 2020, the ongoing research efforts to reduce the toxicity and development of human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA) in anti-GD2 antibodies like dinutuximab were a success, and naxitamab, marketed as Danyelza®, was approved by the
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FDA[90]. Naxitamab is a humanized anti-GD2monoclonal antibody developed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc.[41, 91]. Structurally speaking, naxitamab is very similar to dinutuximab, except some mouse components have been substituted with human ones[64]. Naxitamab is a treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, and many other GD2­positive cancers. This drug is injected intravenously in combination with GM-CSF to treat patients with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma in the bone or bone marrow[41, 92]. This drug regimen is an improvement over Unituxin because it has a shorter infusion time (naxitamab infuses in 30–60 minutes compared to the 10–20 hours needed for Unituxin), and it can be used in a greater age range of patients, from 1-year-olds to adults[41, 91]. As mentioned above, Unituxin is too risky for most adults to use because of the high probability of side effects. Also, because of the toxicity profiles, dinutuximab is for inpatient administration only, while naxitamab allows for outpatient administration and a better quality of life
−1
during treatment[41]. Naxitamab’s recommended dosage is 3 mg kg
day−1[41]. This treatment cycle is administered on days 1, 3, and 5 of a four-week-long treat­ment. The treatment cycle is repeated every four weeks until a complete or partial response is noted[41, 91, 92]. Once a response is noted, the studies recommend at least five more treatment cycles. However, be warned that this treatment still has risks because it may cause severe infusion-related reactions and neurotoxicity[41]. During testing, the drug showed promising binding via surface plasmon resonance to GD2 coated onto CM5 chips. Naxitamab had a k
1.03E, a K
value of 11 nM, and low reactivity with gangliosides other than
D
value of 9.19, a k
on
value of
off
GD2[91]. In fact, naxitamab’s affinity for GD2 is 10 times higher than dinutuxi­mab’s affinity [41]. These results, along with the drug’s cytotoxicity against the LAN-1neuroblastoma cell line with an EC
of 5.1 μg ml−1, allow naxitamab to be
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a treatment option for patients with high-risk neuroblastoma[91]. When naxita­mab is used as a treatment in conjunction with GM-CSF, the three-year EFS is
74.3% and the OS is 91.6%, which is an increase in survival rates compared to dinutuximab[41].
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7.7.7 Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) Targeting GD2
Therefore, alternative cancer cell targets are necessary for treatment options. This idea led to the discovery of T-cell-independent carbohydrate differentiation anti­gens, such as GD2, GD3, O-acetylated GD2 and GD3, and polysialic acid (PSA)[68]. mAbs can be used as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) or bispecific antibodies, such as anti-GD2 and anti-CD3, to allow polyclonal T cells to target tumors. CARs are single-chain Fv fragments that can fuse through the transmembrane domain of T-cell-activating motifs, such as CD3ζ and CD28 or 41BB, to allow the T cells to target a specific protein[68]. All of these possible neuroblastoma-killing pathways are illustrated in Figure7.4. There are several CARs that have gone through clinical trials; here is an example of an anti-GD2 CAR that utilized an scFv based on
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Figure7.4  Illustration of potential immune responses to neuroblastoma tumor cells. Source: Adapted from Cheyung and Dyer[68].
humanized murine antibody KM8138 that is fused to CD28 [93]. This trial took children with relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma; out of 34 patients, only 15% reported a partial response. In this study, two patients showed significant tumor regression; one had two large tumors and the other patient had one retroperitoneal tumor. Both patients had greater than 90% regression after two months of CAR T-cell therapy[94]. There are drawbacks to CARs; in a different phase 1 clinical trial, anti-GD2 CAR was administered to 11 patients with relapsed or refractory neuro­blastoma. The patients were treated with either anti-GD2 CAR T cells alone or in conjunction with lymphodepleting chemotherapy. This trial saw minimal activity with no measurable responses in all patients. CAR T cells aggregated and caused tonic signaling of 14g2a anti-GD2 scFv; this led to T-cell exhaustion and limited antitumor efficacy[95].
7.8 Summary
Overall, carbohydrate-specific mAbs that target carbohydrate antigens have proven to be effective as therapies against cancer, and what waits in the wings is further development against bacterial infections and viruses. Unituxin and naxitamab have paved the path for using immunotherapeutics against carbohydrates a reality. The research community will need to take advantage of carbohydrate antigens further to develop other important therapies in the quest to combat disease more effectively.
List ofAbbreviations
tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens TACAs antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity ADCC complement-dependent cytotoxicity CDC monoclonal antibodies mAbs natural killer NK gra nulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating
factor GM-CSF interleukin 2 IL-2 isotretinoin 13-cis-retinoic acid- RA Biopharmaceutical Development Program BDP United Therapeutics Corporation UTC Food and Drug Administration FDA European Commission EC event-free survival EFS overall survival OS human anti-mouse antibodies HAMA human leukocyte antigen HLA cytotoxic T lymphocyte CTL FAS ligand FASL polysialic acid PSA NK cell-mediated antibody-dependent
cell-mediated cytotoxicity NK-ADCC granulocyte-mediated ADCC granulocyte ADCC complement-mediated cytotoxicity CMC membrane attack complex MAC chimeric antigen receptors CARs single-chain Fv fragments scFvs anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase ALK central nervous system CNS lactosylceramide LacCer asialo-GM2 GA2 cerebrospinal fluid CSF extracellular matrix ECM focal adhesion kinase FAK m3F8 murine IgG3 14G2a murine IgG2a β-glucan BG Epstein–Barr virus EBV humanized m3F8 hu3F8
complementarity-determining region CDR
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