Towards Aptamer-Targeted Drug Delivery to Brain Tumors: The Synthesis of Ramified Conjugates of an EGFR-Specific Aptamer with MMAE on a Cathepsin B-Cleavable Linker

• Main Authors: Vladimir A. Brylev (Author), Ekaterina V. Ryabukhina (Author), Ekaterina V. Nazarova (Author), Nadezhda S. Samoylenkova (Author), Evgeny L. Gulyak (Author), Ksenia A. Sapozhnikova (Author), Fatima M. Dzarieva (Author), Alexey V. Ustinov (Author), Igor N. Pronin (Author), Dmitry Y. Usachev (Author), Alexey M. Kopylov (Author), Andrey V. Golovin (Author), Galina V. Pavlova (Author), Dmitry Yu. Ryazantsev (Author), Vladimir A. Korshun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic agents is a well-established approach to cancer therapy. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) typically carry toxic payloads attached to a tumor-associated antigen-targeting IgG antibody via an enzyme-cleavable linker that re...