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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Immunol. 2009 Apr;9(4):271–285. doi: 10.1038/nri2526

Table 3.

Therapeutic targeting of TNF superfamily members in cancer

Mode of therapy Target Combination treatment Tumour type
Stimulatory antibody or
ligand Fc protein
OX40 NA Sarcoma, melanoma, glioma, colon carcinoma,
mammary carcinoma, thymoma and renal-cell
carcinoma
Adoptive transfer of CTLs Sarcoma, thymoma and prostate tumour
Administration of IL-12 and 4-1BB-specific
antibody
Colon carcinoma
Administration of GM-CSF Colon and breast carcinoma
Tumour transfection with CD80 B-cell lymphoma
Administration of DC vaccine and
4-1BB-specific antibody
Breast carcinoma
Administration of GM-CSF and tumour
antigen vaccine
Breast tumour
Administration of IL-12 Sarcoma and prostate tumor
4-1BB NA Sarcoma, mastocytoma, glioma, colon carcinoma
and B-cell lymphoma
Administration of IL-12 Colon carcinoma and melanoma
Adoptive transfer of CTLs Plasmacytoma
FLT3L-mediated DC mobilization Fibrosarcoma
HLA-DR- and CD40-specific antibodies Renal carcinoma and mammary carcinoma
5-fluorouracil Renal carcinoma
CD27 NA B-cell lymphoma
Transfection of tumour
cells
OX40L Administration of GM-CSF Melanoma, lung carcinomathymoma and colon
carcinoma
4-1BBL CD80 co-transfection Sarcoma and colon carcinoma
CD80 and CD86 co-transfection B-cell lymphoma
IL-12 co-transfection Colon carcinoma
CD80 Squamous-cell carcinoma
CD80, CD40L and CD48 co-transfection T-cell lymphoma
Adoptive transfer of LAK cells and
NK cells
Adenocarcinoma
TRANCE, CD95L and CCL21
co-transfection
T-cell lymphoma
Soluble PD1 co-transfection Hepatocarcinoma
Single-chain Fv
fragments specific
for 4-1BB
NA Melanoma and mammary carcinoma
CD70 NA Sarcoma, mastocytoma, colon carcinoma, thymoma,
lymphoma, mammary adenocarcinoma and glioma
CD80 co-transfection Melanoma and mammary adenocarcinoma
CD40L co-transfection Melanoma
Transfection of DCs OX40L NA Melanoma, thymoma and melanoma
4-1BBL NA Colon carcinoma and adenocarcinoma
CD70 NA Thymoma
Stimulatory RNA
aptamer
OX40 Administration of DC vaccine Melanoma
4-1BB NA Mastocytoma
Depleting antibody CD70 NA B-cell lymphoma, renal carcinoma and non-Hodgkin
lymphoma

There is an online version of this table that includes references. See Supplementary information S1 (Table). 4-1BBL, 4-1BB ligand; CCL21, CC-chemokine ligand 21; CD95L, CD95 ligand; CTL, cytotoxic T lymphocyte; DC, dendritic cell; DR3, death receptor 3; FLT3, FMS-related tyrosine kinase 3; GM-CSF; granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor; IL, interleukin; LAK, lymphokine activated killer; NA, not applicable; NK, natural killer; PD1, programmed cell death 1; TNF, tumour necrosis factor; TRANCE, TNF-related activation-induced cytokine.