Molecular Profiling of Tisotumab Vedotin-Treated Patients Identifies Immune Pathways Associated With Clinical Activity.

Authors

Sriram Sridhar, Guy Roukens, Christina Y Yu, Tim Dielen, Berris van Kessel-Welmers, Han Si, Steven Xu, Lauren K Brady, Merzu Belete, Mark Bieda, Khyati N Shah, Regina Aquino, Denise Gallagher, Craig J Thalhauser, Brandon W Higgs, Mark Fereshteh, Maria Jure-Kunkel, Jeffrey R Harris

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Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Jul 17, 2026. Epub Jul 17, 2026.

Abstract

Tisotumab vedotin (TV) is a tissue factor (TF)-specific antibody-drug conjugate that was evaluated in the innovaTV 204 study in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer (r/mCC). Although TF expression is required for TV binding to tumor cells, clinical responses were found to be independent of TF levels. This study aimed to evaluate whether baseline tumor gene expression signatures consistent with the proposed mechanisms of action of TV were associated with clinical outcomes.
Pretreatment tumor samples from patients enrolled in innovaTV 204 (NCT03438396), a phase 2, single-arm, multicenter trial of TV in r/mCC following chemotherapy, were profiled for molecular biomarkers. Gene expression analyses of immune-related signatures were stratified by clinical response. In vitro antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity assays were performed using tumor cell lines with variable TF expression.
TF expression was confirmed in most patients but did not associate with response. Higher expression of gene signatures linked to natural killer cells and myeloid cells was associated with improved clinical outcomes. In vitro, TV induced tumor cell death through myeloid-mediated antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis and natural killer-mediated antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity across various TF expression levels.
This work provides supportive evidence for TV mechanisms of action that involve antitumor effects through direct cytotoxic and immune effector-mediated mechanisms. The association of immune-related gene signatures with improved clinical outcomes supports a multimodal mechanism of action for TV in the clinic and provides further rationale for antibody-drug conjugate efficacy in tumors with heterogeneous target expression.

PMID:
42467245
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 17 Jul 2026.

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