Synonyms: cA2 | Inflectra® | Remicade® | Remsima® | SB2 | TA-650 | Zymfentra® (subcutaneous formulation)
infliximab is an approved drug (FDA (1998), EMA (1999))
Compound class:
Antibody
Comment: Infliximab is an anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF)α, mouse-human chimeric monoclonal antibody. It binds both soluble and transmembrane forms of TNFα but not lymphotoxin α (TNFβ).
Annotated peptide sequences for this antibody are available from its IMGT/mAb-DB record. Peptide sequence analysis reveals this to be antibody cA2 in patent US5656272 [5]. Biosimilars:
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