“…Akihiro Ishikawa and Masazumi Waseda contributed equally to this work. Podoplanin (PDPN) is a mucin-type transmembrane protein with a glycosylated extracellular domain that is overexpressed in various cancers, such as brain, oral, and lung cancers (Breiteneder-Geleff et al, 1997;Chu et al, 2005;Kahn et al, 2002;Kato et al, 2003Kato et al, , 2004Mishima et al, 2006;Schacht et al, 2005), and is considered a promising therapeutic target for cancer treatment (Kreppel et al, 2010;Mori et al, 2021;Waseda & Kaneko, 2020). To target PDPN, we previously focused on the rat anti-human PDPN antibody (NZ-1), which recognizes PDPN specifically (Kato et al, 2006).…”