Variantes del anticuerpo herceptina que interactúan con HER2 y VEGF en el sitio de unión al antígeno

Jenny Bostrom1, Shang-Fan Yu, David Kan

  • 1Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 21, 2009
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores diseñaron un nuevo anticuerpo capaz de unirse a dos proteínas distintas, el receptor 2 del factor de crecimiento epidérmico humano (HER2) y el factor de crecimiento endotelial vascular (VEGF). Este anticuerpo "dos en uno" es prometedor para nuevas estrategias terapéuticas.

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