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Cancer Vaccine

Fusion protein vaccine generates potent antitumor effects

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 30th, 2005

Fusion protein vaccine by domains of bacterial exotoxin linked with a tumor antigen generates potent immunologic responses and antitumor effects.

"Antigen-specific immunotherapy represents an attractive approach for cancer treatment because of the capacity to eradicate systemic tumors at multiple sites in the body while retaining the requisite specificity to discriminate between neoplastic and non-neophistic cells. It has been shown that certain domains of bacterial exotoxins facilitate translocation from extracellular and vesicular compartments into the cytoplasm. This feature provides an opportunity to enhance class I and/or II presentation of exogenous antigen to T...

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