Anti-interleukin-6

Anti-interleukin-6 agents are a class of therapeutics. Interleukin 6 is a cytokine relevant to many inflammatory diseases and many cancers.[1] Hence, anti-IL6 agents have been sought.[2][3][4][5][6] In rheumatoid arthritis they can help patients unresponsive to TNF inhibitors.[7]

The first approved medication in this class, tocilizumab (Actemra), is an antibody directed against the IL6-receptor.[8] The second, siltuximab (Sylvant), is directed against IL-6 itself.[1][9] Siltuximab is approved for treatment of human immunodeficiency virus-negative and HHV-8-negative patients with multicentric Castleman's disease. Siltuximab was also tested in the phase I/II study for therapy of patients with metastatic castration-associated prostate cancer in combination with docetaxel and in renal cell carcinoma; phase II trials in ovarian cancer resulted in 39% of patients showed disease stabilization via IL-6-regulated downregulation of CCL2, CXCL12 and VEGF.

Tocilizumab was first used in large-cell lung carcinoma. In phase I/II trial of tocilizumab in ovarian cancer EGFR pathway upregulation was observed and after inhibition of this pathway by gefitinib tumor growth was decreased both in vitro and in vivo.[10]

Sarilumab was approved by US FDA in 2017 for rheumatoid arthritis.[11]

Several agents are in clinical trials: olokizumab (CDP6038)[12][13] elsilimomab, clazakizumab (BMS-945429, ALD518), sirukumab (CNTO 136), levilimab (BCD-089), and CPSI-2364 an apparent macrophage-specific inhibitor of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway.[14] ALX-0061.[7]: Table1 

e.g. for rheumatoid arthritis : clazakizumab, olokizumab, sarilumab and sirukumab have all reported encouraging phase 2 results.[7] Sirukumab is in multiple phase 3 trials.[7]: Table1 

Agents in pre-clinical development include ARGX-109,[15][16] FE301,[1] and FM101.[17]

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  10. ^ Korneev, KV; Atretkhany, KN; Drutskaya, MS; Grivennikov, SI; Kuprash, DV; Nedospasov, SA (January 2017). "TLR-signaling and proinflammatory cytokines as drivers of tumorigenesis". Cytokine. 89: 127–135. doi:10.1016/j.cyto.2016.01.021. PMID 26854213.
  11. ^ FDA Gives Nod to Sarilumab for Rheumatoid Arthritis. 2017
  12. ^ "UCB Announces Start Of Phase I Study For Antibody Drug Candidate CDP6038". 2 Dec 2008.
  13. ^ "Article > UCB's RA drug does not overly impress in Phase II". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  14. ^ Websky Mv FJ, Ohsawa I, Praktiknjo M, Wehner S, Abu-Elmagd K, Kitamura K, Kalff JC, Schaefer N, Pech T (2013). "The novel guanylhydrazone CPSI-2364 ameliorates ischemia reperfusion injury after experimental small bowel transplantation". Transplantation. 95 (11): 1315–23. doi:10.1097/TP.0b013e31828e72fa. PMID 23598944. S2CID 45761175.
  15. ^ "ArGEN-X Wins €1.5M IWT Grant to Progress Camelid-Derived Human Antibody Pipeline". 27 Sep 2010.
  16. ^ "RuiYi (Formerly Anaphore) and arGEN-X Announce Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement for ARGX-109, a Novel anti-IL-6 Antibody" (Press release).
  17. ^ "Formatech to Donate Services to Formulate and Fill Femta Pharmaceuticals' FM101 Monoclonal Antibody under Its "Fillanthrop". 30 July 2010.
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