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    Jiang, Liwei; Jung, Sungwook; Zhao, Jing; Kasinath, Vivek; Ichimura, Takaharu; Joseph, John; Fiorina, Paolo; Liss, Andrew S.; Shah, Khalid; Annabi, Nasim; Joshi, Nitin; Akama, Tomoya O.; Bromberg, Jonathan S.; Kobayashi, Motohiro; Uchimura, Kenji; Abdi, Reza

    Nano today, 02/2021, Volume: 36
    Journal Article

    Cancer patients with malignant involvement of tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs) and distant metastases have the poorest prognosis. A drug delivery platform that targets the primary tumor, TDLNs, and metastatic niches simultaneously, remains to be developed. Here, we generated a novel monoclonal antibody (MHA112) against peripheral node addressin (PNAd), a family of glycoproteins expressed on high endothelial venules (HEVs), which are present constitutively in the lymph nodes (LNs) and formed ectopically in the tumor stroma. MHA112 was endocytosed by PNAd-expressing cells, where it passed through the lysosomes. MHA112 conjugated antineoplastic drug Paclitaxel (Taxol) (MHA112-Taxol) delivered Taxol effectively to the HEV-containing tumors, TDLNs, and metastatic lesions. MHA112-Taxol treatment significantly reduced primary tumor size as well as metastatic lesions in a number of mouse and human tumor xenografts tested. These data indicate that human metastatic lesions contain HEVs and provide a platform that permits simultaneous targeted delivery of antineoplastic drugs to the three key sites of primary tumor, TDLNs, and metastases. Display omitted •A novel monoclonal antibody (MHA112) against peripheral node addressin (PNAd) on high endothelial venules (HEVs).•Simultaneous targeting to primary tumor, tumor-draining lymph nodes and metastatic sites by MHA112-antineoplastic drug.•Tumor metastatic lesions contain HEVs.