This is an author produced version of a paper published in Current Drug Targets. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. Citation for the published paper: Curr Drug Targets. 2015 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print] Targeting Receptor Tyrosine Kinases using Monoclonal Antibodies: The Most Specific Tools for Targeted-Based Cancer Therapy Shabani, Mahdi ; Hojjat-Farsangi, Mohammad DOI: 10.2174/1389450116666151001104133 Access to the published version may require subscription. Published with permission from: Bentham Science Targeting Receptor Tyrosine Kinases using Monoclonal Antibodies: The Most Specific Tools for Targeted-Based Cancer Therapy Mahdi Shabani 1 and Mohammad Hojjat-Farsangi 2, 3 1 Monoclonal Antibody Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Oncology-Pathology, Immune and Gene therapy Lab, Cancer Center Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska University Hospital Solna and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran Corresponding author: Mohammad Hojjat-Farsangi, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Center Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel: +46 8 51 77 43 08, Fax: +46 8 31 83 27, Email:
[email protected] Running title: Monoclonal antibodies and RTKs targeted therapy 1 Abstract: Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) family is comprised of different cell surface glycoproteins. These enzymes participate and regulate vital processes such as cell proliferation, polarity, differentiation, cell to cell interactions, signaling, and cell survival. Dysregulation of RTKs contributes to the development of different types of tumors. RTKs deregulation in cancer has been reported for more than 30 RTKs.