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Huang CC, Sung HH, Li HC, Miaw SC, Kung JT, Chou MY, Wu-Hsieh BA. A novel trivalent non-Fc anti-CD3 Collabody preferentially induces Th1 cell apoptosis in vitro and long-lasting remission in recent-onset diabetic NOD mice. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1201853. [PMID: 37600814 PMCID: PMC10435756 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1201853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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Specific anti-CD3 treatment is deemed to be a promising therapy for allograft rejection and type 1 diabetes (T1D). Fc receptor (FcR) reduced-binding antibodies, by avoiding adverse effects of Fc and FcR interaction, have good therapeutic potential. We generated a trivalent anti-mouse-CD3 Collabody, h145CSA, by using a triplex-forming collagen-like peptide (Gly-Pro-Pro)10 to drive the trimerization of the Fab fragments. Exposure to h145CSA, but not its bivalent counterparts 145-2C11 and h145chIgGAA (FcR reduced-binding format), upregulates FasL expression on Th1 cells and causes Th1 cell apoptosis. Administration of h145CSA invokes minimal mitogenic effects in mice. The ability of multiple dosing of h145CSA to induce splenic CD4+ T-cell depletion is comparable to bivalent antibodies but is characterized by more rapid CD4+ T-cell recovery kinetics. h145CSA is more potent than h145chIgGAA in inducing long-lasting remission in recent-onset diabetic NOD mice. Its therapeutic effect is accompanied by a significantly lower percentage of CD4+IFNγ+ T cells and a higher Treg/Th1 ratio in pancreatic and mesenteric lymph nodes. The results of our study demonstrate that trivalent non-Fc anti-CD3 Collabody has the potential to be used in the treatment of T1D.
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- Chuan-Chuan Huang
- Graduate Institute of Immunology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- National Laboratory Animal Center, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Immunology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Immunology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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Pardridge WM. Receptor-mediated drug delivery of bispecific therapeutic antibodies through the blood-brain barrier. FRONTIERS IN DRUG DELIVERY 2023; 3:1227816. [PMID: 37583474 PMCID: PMC10426772 DOI: 10.3389/fddev.2023.1227816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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Therapeutic antibody drug development is a rapidly growing sector of the pharmaceutical industry. However, antibody drug development for the brain is a technical challenge, and therapeutic antibodies for the central nervous system account for ~3% of all such agents. The principal obstacle to antibody drug development for brain or spinal cord is the lack of transport of large molecule biologics across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Therapeutic antibodies can be made transportable through the blood-brain barrier by the re-engineering of the therapeutic antibody as a BBB-penetrating bispecific antibody (BSA). One arm of the BSA is the therapeutic antibody and the other arm of the BSA is a transporting antibody. The transporting antibody targets an exofacial epitope on a BBB receptor, and this enables receptor-mediated transcytosis (RMT) of the BSA across the BBB. Following BBB transport, the therapeutic antibody then engages the target receptor in brain. RMT systems at the BBB that are potential conduits to the brain include the insulin receptor (IR), the transferrin receptor (TfR), the insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGFR) and the leptin receptor. Therapeutic antibodies have been re-engineered as BSAs that target the insulin receptor, TfR, or IGFR RMT systems at the BBB for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
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Belovezhets T, Kulemzin S, Volkova O, Najakshin A, Taranin A, Gorchakov A. Comparative Pre-Clinical Analysis of CD20-Specific CAR T Cells Encompassing 1F5-, Leu16-, and 2F2-Based Antigen-Recognition Moieties. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24043698. [PMID: 36835110 PMCID: PMC9966244 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24043698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Over the past decade, CAR T cell therapy for patients with B cell malignancies has evolved from an experimental technique to a clinically feasible option. To date, four CAR T cell products specific for a B cell surface marker, CD19, have been approved by the FDA. Despite the spectacular rates of complete remission in r/r ALL and NHL patients, a significant proportion of patients still relapse, frequently with the CD19 low/negative tumor phenotype. To address this issue, additional B cell surface molecules such as CD20 were proposed as targets for CAR T cells. Here, we performed a side-by-side comparison of the activity of CD20-specific CAR T cells based on the antigen-recognition modules derived from the murine antibodies, 1F5 and Leu16, and from the human antibody, 2F2. Whereas CD20-specific CAR T cells differed from CD19-specific CAR T cells in terms of subpopulation composition and cytokine secretion, they displayed similar in vitro and in vivo potency.
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- Almazov National Medical Research Centre, 197341 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Almazov National Medical Research Centre, 197341 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Mohanty R, Manoswini M, Dhal AK, Ganguly N. In silico analysis of a novel protein in CAR T- cell therapy for the treatment of hematologic cancer through molecular modelling, docking, and dynamics approach. Comput Biol Med 2022; 151:106285. [PMID: 36395593 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Cellular therapy has emerged as a key tool in the treatment of hematological malignancies. An advanced cell therapy known as chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR T-cell therapy) has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as KYMRIAH by Novartis and YESCARTA by Gilead/Kite pharma in the year 2017. A chimeric receptor is composed of an extracellular antigen recognition site along with some co-stimulating and signalling domains. On the whole, it turns out to be one of the most potent receptors on T cells targeting a specific type of cancer cell based on its antigenic marker. CD19 CAR T-cell therapy is the first clinically approved therapy for lymphoma with remarkable results in complete remission of B cell lymphoblastic leukemia up to 90%. The high rate of effectiveness of the CAR T-cell therapy against B-ALL justifies the investigation and application of this therapy for fatal diseases like all types of hematological malignancies. The most critical aspect of chimeric receptor therapy is designing and building an artificial receptor that is specific to a given type of cancer. For this reason, the in silico technique is an appropriate model to investigate the integrity and effectiveness of the engineered chimeric receptor prior to commencing in vitro experiments followed by clinical trials. This computerized experimental study aids in predicting the molecular mechanism of chimeric protein and how it interacts with both ligands. We have anticipated various features of the chimeric protein in terms of qualitative analysis (structure, protein modelling, physiological properties) and functional analysis (antigenicity, allergenicity, its receptor-ligand binding ability, involving signalling pathways). Furthermore, the reliability and validation of the binding mode of the chimeric protein against receptors were performed through a complex molecular dynamics simulation for a 100 ns timeframe in an aqueous environment. The obtained simulation study showed that CD30 was a better approachable marker as compared to CD20 due to its better binding energy score and also binding conformations stability.
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- Rimjhim Mohanty
- School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, 751024, India.
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- School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, 751024, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, 751024, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, 751024, India.
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Natural Receptor- and Ligand-Based Chimeric Antigen Receptors: Strategies Using Natural Ligands and Receptors for Targeted Cell Killing. Cells 2021; 11:cells11010021. [PMID: 35011583 PMCID: PMC8750724 DOI: 10.3390/cells11010021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been widely successful in the treatment of B-cell malignancies, including B-cell lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, and multiple myeloma; and three generations of CAR designs have led to effective FDA approved therapeutics. Traditionally, CAR antigen specificity is derived from a monoclonal antibody where the variable heavy (VH) and variable light (VL) chains are connected by a peptide linker to form a single-chain variable fragment (scFv). While this provides a level of antigen specificity parallel to that of an antibody and has shown great success in the clinic, this design is not universally successful. For instance, issues of stability, immunogenicity, and antigen escape hinder the translational application of some CARs. As an alternative, natural receptor- or ligand-based designs may prove advantageous in some circumstances compared to scFv-based designs. Herein, the advantages and disadvantages of scFv-based and natural receptor- or ligand-based CAR designs are discussed. In addition, several translational aspects of natural receptor- and ligand-based CAR approaches that are being investigated in preclinical and clinical studies will be examined.
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Pang N, Shi J, Qin L, Chen A, Tang Y, Yang H, Huang Y, Wu Q, Li X, He B, Li T, Liang B, Zhang J, Cao B, Liu M, Feng Y, Ye X, Chen X, Wang L, Tian Y, Li H, Li J, Hu H, He J, Hu Y, Zhi C, Tang Z, Gong Y, Xu F, Xu L, Fan W, Zhao M, Chen D, Lian H, Yang L, Li P, Zhang Z. IL-7 and CCL19-secreting CAR-T cell therapy for tumors with positive glypican-3 or mesothelin. J Hematol Oncol 2021; 14:118. [PMID: 34325726 PMCID: PMC8323212 DOI: 10.1186/s13045-021-01128-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/23/2023] Open
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Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cells have shown great success in the treatment of B cell malignancies, this strategy has limited efficacy in patients with solid tumors. In mouse CAR-T cells, IL-7 and CCL19 expression have been demonstrated to improve T cell infiltration and CAR-T cell survival in mouse tumors. Therefore, in the current study, we engineered human CAR-T cells to secrete human IL-7 and CCL19 (7 × 19) and found that these 7 × 19 CAR-T cells showed enhanced capacities of expansion and migration in vitro. Furthermore, 7 × 19 CAR-T cells showed superior tumor suppression ability compared to conventional CAR-T cells in xenografts of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines, primary HCC tissue samples and pancreatic carcinoma (PC) cell lines. We then initiated a phase 1 clinical trial in advanced HCC/PC/ovarian carcinoma (OC) patients with glypican-3 (GPC3) or mesothelin (MSLN) expression. In a patient with advanced HCC, anti-GPC3-7 × 19 CAR-T treatment resulted in complete tumor disappearance 30 days post intratumor injection. In a patient with advanced PC, anti-MSLN-7 × 19 CAR-T treatment resulted in almost complete tumor disappearance 240 days post-intravenous infusion. Our results demonstrated that the incorporation of 7 × 19 into CAR-T cells significantly enhanced the antitumor activity against human solid tumor. Trial registration: NCT03198546. Registered 26 June 2017, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03198546?term=NCT03198546&draw=2&rank=1.
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- Nengzhi Pang
- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.,Department of Nutrition; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Center for Cell Regeneration and Biotherapy, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Center for Cell Regeneration and Biotherapy, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Qianjiang Central Hospital, Qianjiang, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shunde Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine University of Guangzhou, Foshan, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Zhaotai Cell Biology Technology Ltd., Guangzhou, China.,Guangdong Zhaotai InVivo Biomedicine Co. Ltd., Guangzhou, China
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- The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Minimally Invasive Interventional Division; Department of Medical Imaging and Interventional Radiology; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Minimally Invasive Interventional Division; Department of Medical Imaging and Interventional Radiology; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Nutrition; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Center for Cell Regeneration and Biotherapy, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology; Translational Medicine Center and Guangdong Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory of Nano-Immunoregulation Tumor Microenvironment, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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Miller A, Carr S, Rabbitts T, Ali H. Multimeric antibodies with increased valency surpassing functional affinity and potency thresholds using novel formats. MAbs 2021; 12:1752529. [PMID: 32316838 PMCID: PMC7188389 DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2020.1752529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The success of therapeutic antibodies is largely attributed for their exquisite specificity, homogeneity, and functionality. There is, however, a need to engineer antibodies to extend and enhance their potency. One parameter is functional affinity augmentation, since antibodies matured in vivo have a natural affinity threshold. Generation of multivalent antibodies is one option capable of surpassing this affinity threshold through increased avidity. In this study, we present a novel platform consisting of an array of multivalent antibody formats, termed Quads, generated using the self-assembling tetramerization domain from p53. We demonstrate the versatility of this tetramerization domain by engineering anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) Quads that exhibit major increases in binding potency and in neutralizing TNF-mediated cytotoxicity compared to parental anti-TNF molecules. Further, Quads are amenable to fusion with different binding domains, allowing generation of novel multivalent monospecific and bispecific formats. Quads are thus a novel group of molecules that can be engineered to yield potential therapeutics with novel modalities and potencies.
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- Ami Miller
- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, UK
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- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Quadrucept Bio Limited, Cambridge, UK
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Zajc CU, Salzer B, Taft JM, Reddy ST, Lehner M, Traxlmayr MW. Driving CARs with alternative navigation tools - the potential of engineered binding scaffolds. FEBS J 2020; 288:2103-2118. [PMID: 32794303 PMCID: PMC8048499 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Revised: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
T cells that are genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) have shown impressive clinical efficacy against B‐cell malignancies. In contrast to these highly potent CD19‐targeting CAR T cells, many of those directed against other tumor entities and antigens currently suffer from several limitations. For example, it has been demonstrated that many scFvs used as antigen‐binding domains in CARs show some degree of oligomerization, which leads to tonic signaling, T cell exhaustion, and poor performance in vivo. Therefore, in many cases alternatives to scFvs would be beneficial. Fortunately, due to the development of powerful protein engineering technologies, also non‐immunoglobulin‐based scaffolds can be engineered to specifically recognize antigens, thus eliminating the historical dependence on antibody‐based binding domains. Here, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such engineered binding scaffolds, in particular with respect to their application in CARs. We review recent studies, collectively showing that there is no functional or biochemical aspect that necessitates the use of scFvs in CARs. Instead, antigen recognition can also be mediated efficiently by engineered binding scaffolds, as well as natural ligands or receptors fused to the CAR backbone. Finally, we critically discuss the risk of immunogenicity and show that the extent of nonhuman amino acid stretches in engineered scaffolds—even in those based on nonhuman proteins—is more similar to humanized scFvs than might be anticipated. Together, we expect that engineered binding scaffolds and natural ligands and receptors will be increasingly used for the design of CAR T cells.
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- Charlotte U Zajc
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Next Generation CAR T Cells, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Next Generation CAR T Cells, Vienna, Austria.,St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Next Generation CAR T Cells, Vienna, Austria.,St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Pediatrics, St. Anna Kinderspital, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Next Generation CAR T Cells, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Klesmith JR, Su L, Wu L, Schrack IA, Dufort FJ, Birt A, Ambrose C, Hackel BJ, Lobb RR, Rennert PD. Retargeting CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells via Engineered CD19-Fusion Proteins. Mol Pharm 2019; 16:3544-3558. [PMID: 31242389 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells (CAR19s) show remarkable efficacy in the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, the use of CAR T-cell therapy against CD19-negative hematological cancers and solid tumors has been challenging. We propose CD19-fusion proteins (CD19-FPs) to leverage the benefits of CAR19s while retargeting this validated cellular therapy to alternative tumor antigens. We demonstrate the ability of a fusion of CD19 extracellular domain (ECD) and a human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) single-chain antibody fragment to retarget CAR19s to kill HER2+ CD19- tumor cells. To enhance the modularity of this technology, we engineered a more robust CD19 ECD via deep mutational scanning with yeast display and flow cytometric selections for improved protease resistance and anti-CD19 antibody binding. These enhanced CD19 ECDs significantly increase, and in some cases recover, fusion protein expression while maintaining target antigen affinity. Importantly, CD19-FPs retarget CAR19s to kill tumor cells expressing multiple distinct antigens, including HER2, CD20, EGFR, BCMA, and Clec12A as N- or C-terminal fusions and linked to both antibody fragments and fibronectin ligands. This study provides fundamental insights into CD19 sequence-function relationships and defines a flexible and modular platform to retarget CAR19s to any tumor antigen.
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- Justin R Klesmith
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota Twin Cities , 421 Washington Avenue SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota Twin Cities , 421 Washington Avenue SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota Twin Cities , 421 Washington Avenue SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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- Aleta Biotherapeutics , 27 Strathmore Road , Natick , Massachusetts 01760 , United States
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Ziraldo G, Buratto D, Kuang Y, Xu L, Carrer A, Nardin C, Chiani F, Salvatore AM, Paludetti G, Lerner RA, Yang G, Zonta F, Mammano F. A Human-Derived Monoclonal Antibody Targeting Extracellular Connexin Domain Selectively Modulates Hemichannel Function. Front Physiol 2019; 10:392. [PMID: 31263420 PMCID: PMC6584803 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Connexin hemichannels, which are plasma membrane hexameric channels (connexons) composed of connexin protein protomers, have been implicated in a host of physiological processes and pathological conditions. A number of single point pathological mutations impart a “leaky” character to the affected hemichannels, i.e., make them more active or hyperactive, suggesting that normal physiological condition could be recovered using selective hemichannel inhibitors. Recently, a human-derived monoclonal antibody named abEC1.1 has been shown to inhibit both wild type and hyperactive hemichannels composed of human (h) connexin 26 (hCx26) subunits. The aims of this work were (1) to characterize further the ability of abEC1.1 to selectively modulate connexin hemichannel function and (2) to assess its in vitro stability in view of future translational applications. In silico analysis of abEC1.1 interaction with the hCx26 hemichannel identified critically important extracellular domain amino acids that are conserved in connexin 30 (hCx30) and connexin 32 (hCx32). Patch clamp experiments performed in HeLa DH cells confirmed the inhibition efficiency of abEC1.1 was comparable for hCx26, hCx30 and hCx32 hemichannels. Of note, even a single amino acid difference in the putative binding region reduced drastically the inhibitory effects of the antibody on all the other tested hemichannels, namely hCx30.2/31.3, hCx30.3, hCx31, hCx31.1, hCx37, hCx43 and hCx45. Plasma membrane channels composed of pannexin 1 were not affected by abEC1.1. Finally, size exclusion chromatography assays showed the antibody does not aggregate appreciably in vitro. Altogether, these results indicate abEC1.1 is a promising tool for further translational studies.
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- Gaia Ziraldo
- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Monterotondo, Italy.,Institute of Otolaryngology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Monterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei", University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Monterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei", University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Monterotondo, Italy
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- Institute of Otolaryngology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.,Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Monterotondo, Italy.,Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei", University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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Xu L, Carrer A, Zonta F, Qu Z, Ma P, Li S, Ceriani F, Buratto D, Crispino G, Zorzi V, Ziraldo G, Bruno F, Nardin C, Peres C, Mazzarda F, Salvatore AM, Raspa M, Scavizzi F, Chu Y, Xie S, Yang X, Liao J, Liu X, Wang W, Wang S, Yang G, Lerner RA, Mammano F. Design and Characterization of a Human Monoclonal Antibody that Modulates Mutant Connexin 26 Hemichannels Implicated in Deafness and Skin Disorders. Front Mol Neurosci 2017; 10:298. [PMID: 29018324 PMCID: PMC5615210 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: Mutations leading to changes in properties, regulation, or expression of connexin-made channels have been implicated in 28 distinct human hereditary diseases. Eight of these result from variants of connexin 26 (Cx26), a protein critically involved in cell-cell signaling in the inner ear and skin. Lack of non-toxic drugs with defined mechanisms of action poses a serious obstacle to therapeutic interventions for diseases caused by mutant connexins. In particular, molecules that specifically modulate connexin hemichannel function without affecting gap junction channels are considered of primary importance for the study of connexin hemichannel role in physiological as well as pathological conditions. Monoclonal antibodies developed in the last three decades have become the most important class of therapeutic biologicals. Recombinant methods permit rapid selection and improvement of monoclonal antibodies from libraries with large diversity. Methods: By screening a combinatorial library of human single-chain fragment variable (scFv) antibodies expressed in phage, we identified a candidate that binds an extracellular epitope of Cx26. We characterized antibody action using a variety of biochemical and biophysical assays in HeLa cells, organotypic cultures of mouse cochlea and human keratinocyte-derived cells. Results: We determined that the antibody is a remarkably efficient, non-toxic, and completely reversible inhibitor of hemichannels formed by connexin 26 and does not affect direct cell-cell communication via gap junction channels. Importantly, we also demonstrate that the antibody efficiently inhibits hyperative mutant Cx26 hemichannels implicated in autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing impairment accompanied by keratitis and hystrix-like ichthyosis-deafness (KID/HID) syndrome. We solved the crystal structure of the antibody, identified residues that are critical for binding and used molecular dynamics to uncover its mechanism of action. Conclusions: Although further studies will be necessary to validate the effect of the antibody in vivo, the methodology described here can be extended to select antibodies against hemichannels composed by other connexin isoforms and, consequently, to target other pathologies associated with hyperactive hemichannels. Our study highlights the potential of this approach and identifies connexins as therapeutic targets addressable by screening phage display libraries expressing human randomized antibodies.
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- Liang Xu
- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China.,Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesShanghai, China
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China.,CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy.,Venetian Institute of Molecular MedicinePadova, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Institute of Otolaryngology, Catholic University School of MedicineRome, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy.,Institute of Otolaryngology, Catholic University School of MedicineRome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy.,Venetian Institute of Molecular MedicinePadova, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Science, Roma Tre UniversityRome, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Science, Roma Tre UniversityRome, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech UniversityShanghai, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China.,Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesShanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research InstituteLa Jolla, CA, United States
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghai, China.,CNR Institute of Cell Biology and NeurobiologyMonterotondo, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei,", University of PadovaPadova, Italy.,Venetian Institute of Molecular MedicinePadova, Italy
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Luo Y, Raso SW, Gallant J, Steinmeyer C, Mabuchi Y, Lu Z, Entrican C, Rouse JC. Evidence for intermolecular domain exchange in the Fab domains of dimer and oligomers of an IgG1 monoclonal antibody. MAbs 2017; 9:916-926. [PMID: 28590212 DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2017.1331803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Recombinant protein therapeutics have become increasingly useful in combating human diseases, such as cancer and those of genetic origin. One quality concern for protein therapeutics is the content and the structure of the aggregated proteins in the product, due to the potential immunogenicity of these aggregates. Collective efforts have led to a better understanding of some types of protein aggregates, and have revealed the diversity in the structure and cause of protein aggregation. In this work we used a broad range of analytical techniques to characterize the quinary structure (complexes in which each composing unit maintains native quaternary structure) of the stable non-covalent dimer and oligomers of a monoclonal IgG1λ antibody. The results supported a mechanism of intermolecular domain exchange involving the Fab domains of 2 or more IgG molecules. This mechanism can account for the native-like higher order (secondary, tertiary and disulfide bonding) structure, the stability of the non-covalent multimers, and the previously observed partial loss of the antigen-binding sites without changing the antigen-binding affinity and kinetics of the remaining sites (Luo et al., 2009, mAbs 1:491). Furthermore, the previously observed increase in the apparent affinity to various Fcγ receptors (ibid), which may potentially promote immunogenicity, was also explained by the quinary structure proposed here. Several lines of evidence indicated that the formation of multimers by the mechanism of intermolecular domain exchange took place mostly during expression, not in the purified materials. The findings in this work will advance our knowledge of the mechanisms for aggregation in therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.
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- Yin Luo
- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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- a Analytical Research and Development, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences , Pfizer Inc. , Andover , USA
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Schneider D, Xiong Y, Wu D, Nӧlle V, Schmitz S, Haso W, Kaiser A, Dropulic B, Orentas RJ. A tandem CD19/CD20 CAR lentiviral vector drives on-target and off-target antigen modulation in leukemia cell lines. J Immunother Cancer 2017; 5:42. [PMID: 28515942 PMCID: PMC5433150 DOI: 10.1186/s40425-017-0246-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Background Clinical success with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)- based immunotherapy for leukemia has been accompanied by the associated finding that antigen-escape variants of the disease are responsible for relapse. To target hematologic malignancies with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that targets two antigens with a single vector, and thus potentially lessen the chance of leukemic escape mutations, a tandem-CAR approach was investigated. Methods Antigen binding domains from the FMC63 (anti-CD19) and Leu16 (anti-CD20) antibodies were linked in differing configurations to transmembrane and T cell signaling domains to create tandem-CARs. Expression on the surface of primary human T cells was induced by transduction with a single lentiviral vector (LV) encoding the tandem-CAR. Tandem-CARs were compared to single antigen targeting CARs in vitro and in vivo, and to an admixture of transduced cells expressing each CAR in vivo in immunodeficient (NSG) disease-bearing mice. Results Tandem constructs efficient killed the Raji leukemia cell line both in vitro and in vivo. Tandem CARs generated less cytokine than the CD20 CAR, but similar to CD19 CARs, on their own. In co-culture experiments at low effector to target ratios with both single- and tandem- CAR-T cells, a rapid down-modulation of full-length CD19 expression was seen on leukemia targets. There also was a partial down-modulation of CD22, and to a lesser degree, of CD20. Our data also highlight the extreme sensitivity of the NALM-6 cell line to general lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity. While single and tandem constructs were effective in vivo in a standard setting, in a high-disease burden setting, the tandem CAR proved both effective and less toxic than an admixture of transduced T cell populations expressing single CARs. Conclusion Tandem CARs are equally effective in standard disease models to single antigen specificity CARs, and may be both more effective and less toxic in a higher disease burden setting. This may be due to optimized cell killing with more moderate cytokine production. The rapid co-modulation of CD19, CD20, and CD22 may account for the ability to rapidly evolve escape mutants by selecting for leukemic clones that not require these target antigens for continued expansion. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40425-017-0246-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Dina Schneider
- Lentigen Technology, Inc., 910 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Lentigen Technology, Inc., 910 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Lentigen Technology, Inc., 910 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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- Lentigen Technology, Inc., 910 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Lentigen Technology, Inc., 910 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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- Lentigen Technology, Inc., 910 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA
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Hultqvist G, Syvänen S, Fang XT, Lannfelt L, Sehlin D. Bivalent Brain Shuttle Increases Antibody Uptake by Monovalent Binding to the Transferrin Receptor. Theranostics 2017; 7:308-318. [PMID: 28042336 PMCID: PMC5197066 DOI: 10.7150/thno.17155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is an obstacle for antibody passage into the brain, impeding the development of immunotherapy and antibody-based diagnostics for brain disorders. In the present study, we have developed a brain shuttle for active transport of antibodies across the BBB by receptor-mediated transcytosis. We have thus recombinantly fused two single-chain variable fragments (scFv) of the transferrin receptor (TfR) antibody 8D3 to the light chains of mAb158, an antibody selectively binding to Aβ protofibrils, which are involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Despite the two TfR binders, a monovalent interaction with TfR was achieved due to the short linkers that sterically hinder bivalent binding to the TfR dimer. The design enabled efficient receptor-mediated brain uptake of the fusion protein. Two hours after administration, brain concentrations were 2-3% of the injected dose per gram brain, comparable to small molecular drugs and 80-fold higher than unmodified mAb158. After three days, fusion protein concentrations in AD transgenic mouse brains were 9-fold higher than in wild type mice, demonstrating high in vivo specificity. Thus, our innovative recombinant design markedly increases mAb158 brain uptake, which makes it a strong candidate for improved Aβ immunotherapy and as a PET radioligand for early diagnosis and evaluation of treatment effect in AD. Moreover, this approach could be applied to any target within the brain.
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Van Deventer JA, Kelly RL, Rajan S, Wittrup KD, Sidhu SS. A switchable yeast display/secretion system. Protein Eng Des Sel 2015; 28:317-25. [PMID: 26333274 PMCID: PMC4596280 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzv043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2015] [Revised: 07/29/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Display technologies such as yeast and phage display offer powerful alternatives to traditional immunization-based antibody discovery, but require conversion of displayed proteins into soluble form prior to downstream characterization. Here we utilize amber suppression to implement a yeast-based switchable display/secretion system that enables the immediate production of soluble, antibody-like reagents at the end of screening efforts. Model selections in the switchable format remain efficient, and library screening in the switchable format yields renewable sources of affinity reagents exhibiting nanomolar binding affinities. These results confirm that this system provides a seamless link between display-based screening and the production and evaluation of soluble forms of candidate binding proteins. Switchable display/secretion libraries provide a cloning-free, accessible approach to affinity reagent generation.
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- James A Van Deventer
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Building 76 Room 289, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3E1
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Building 76 Room 289, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3E1
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Designing cell-targeted therapeutic proteins reveals the interplay between domain connectivity and cell binding. Biophys J 2015; 107:2456-66. [PMID: 25418314 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2014] [Revised: 08/11/2014] [Accepted: 10/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The therapeutic efficacy of cytokines is often hampered by severe side effects due to their undesired binding to healthy cells. One strategy for overcoming this obstacle is to tether cytokines to antibodies or antibody fragments for targeted cell delivery. However, how to modulate the geometric configuration and relative binding affinity of the two domains for optimal activity remains an outstanding question. As a result, many antibody-cytokine complexes do not achieve the desired level of cell-targeted binding and activity. Here, we address these design issues by developing a computational model to simulate the dynamics and binding kinetics of natural and engineered fusion proteins such as antibody-cytokine complexes. To verify the model, we developed a modular system in which an antibody fragment and a cytokine are conjugated via a DNA linker that allows for programmable linker geometry and protein spatial configuration. By assembling and testing several anti-CD20 antibody fragment-interferon ? complexes, we showed that varying the linker length and cytokine binding affinity controlled the magnitude of cell-targeted signaling activation in a manner that agreed with the model predictions, which were expressed as dose-signaling response curves. The simulation results also revealed that there is a range of cytokine binding affinities that would achieve optimal therapeutic efficacy. This rapid prototyping platform will facilitate the rational design of antibody-cytokine complexes for improved therapeutic outcomes.
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Shen DY, Ning BT, Tang YM, Li SS. Construction and expression of a novel anti-CD14 human-mouse chimeric antibody Hm2F9. DNA Cell Biol 2014; 33:599-604. [PMID: 24905979 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2013.2233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Anti-CD14 antibody can inhibit the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced systemic inflammatory response syndrome in case of bacteremia or endotoxemia. To obtain chimeric anti-CD14 antibody, we constructed and expressed a novel chimeric antibody Hm2F9 composed of anti-CD14 single-chain fragment variable (scFv) and the Fc region (the hinge, CH2, and CH3 domains) of human IgG1 in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells based on our previous study of scFv2F9. The Hm2F9 antibody, sized 150 kDa, retained the strong specific antigen-binding ability to the CD14 antigen with a comparable activity (the percentage of positive cells 99.07%) to its parental murine antibody 2F9 (the percentage of positive cells 98.86%). At the same time, Hm2F9 could manifestly block the binding of LPS to CD14, whose positive-cell percentage drops significantly with percentage of 98.63% (from 98.37% to 1.35%). The chimeric antibody Hm2F9 expressed in CHO cells retained high affinity to human CD14 and biological function to LPS.
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- Di-Ying Shen
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, The Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine , Hangzhou, China
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Wang W, He W, Wang L, Zhang G, Gao B. Pentamerisation of a scFv directed against TRAIL receptor 2 increases its antitumour efficacy. Immunol Cell Biol 2013; 91:360-7. [DOI: 10.1038/icb.2013.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Wei Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiPRC
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Medical Biotechnology, Biochemistry Teaching and Research Office, Hebei Medical UniversityShijiazhuangPRC
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiPRC
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingPRC
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Omidfar K, Shirvani Z. Single Domain Antibodies: A New Concept for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and EGFRvIII Targeting. DNA Cell Biol 2012; 31:1015-26. [DOI: 10.1089/dna.2011.1529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Kobra Omidfar
- Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Sonoda H, Kumada Y, Katsuda T, Yamaji H. Cytoplasmic production of soluble and functional single-chain Fv-Fc fusion protein in Escherichia coli. Biochem Eng J 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2010.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Yuasa N, Zhang W, Goto T, Sakaue H, Matsumoto-Takasaki A, Kimura M, Ohshima H, Tsuchida Y, Koizumi T, Sakai K, Kojima T, Yamamoto K, Nakata M, Fujita-Yamaguchi Y. Production of anti-carbohydrate antibodies by phage display technologies: potential impairment of cell growth as a result of endogenous expression. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:30587-97. [PMID: 20667829 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.107284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Anti-mannotriose (Man3) antibodies were previously isolated from a Keio phage library displaying human single chain variable fragments (scFvs) using a neoglycolipid, Man3- dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine. Of three genes constructed, the 5A3 clone was expressed in mouse myeloma NS0 cells as a conjugate with human IgG(1) Fc (scFv-Fc) and characterized (Sakai, K., Shimizu, Y., Chiba, T., Matsumoto-Takasaki, A., Kusada, Y., Zhang, W., Nakata, M., Kojima, N., Toma, K., Takayanagi, A., Shimizu, N., and Fujita-Yamaguchi, Y. (2007) Biochemistry 46, 253-262; Zhang, W., Matsumoto-Takasaki, A., Kusada, Y., Sakaue, H., Sakai, K., Nakata, M., and Fujita-Yamaguchi, Y. (2007) Biochemistry 46, 263-270). Similarly, anti-Le(x) phages were screened from the same library with lacto-N-fucopentaose III (LNFPIII; Le(x))-dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine. Of five phage clones isolated, two scFv genes were constructed to express scFv-Fc proteins in NS0 cells. As was experienced with anti-Man3 scFv-Fc clones, only one anti-LNFPIII clone, 1F12, was successfully produced and purified as an scFv-Fc protein. Although anti-LNFPIII 1F12 and anti-Man3 5A3 scFv-Fc proteins were secreted into media, a decline in scFv-Fc production was observed with both stable clones during early passages. Transient expression of anti-LNFPIII and anti-Man3 scFv-Fc genes in COS-7 cells and subsequent analyses of scFv-Fc protein expression revealed accumulation of translated proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum for scFv-Fc proteins derived from clones that did not survive as stable clones. This report describes the following: (i) isolation of anti-LNFPIII scFv genes; (ii) purification of anti-LNFPIII scFv-Fc proteins from stably and transiently expressed cells; and (iii) extracellular or intracellular localization of two anti-LNFPIII and three anti-Man3 scFv-Fc proteins. The results suggest that expression of anti-Man3 and other anti-carbohydrate antibodies in mammalian cells is disadvantageous for cell growth.
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- Noriyuki Yuasa
- Department of Applied Biochemistry, Tokai University School of Engineering, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
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Differential tumor-targeting abilities of three single-domain antibody formats. Cancer Lett 2010; 289:81-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2009.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2009] [Revised: 07/22/2009] [Accepted: 08/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Asano R, Ikoma K, Kawaguchi H, Ishiyama Y, Nakanishi T, Umetsu M, Hayashi H, Katayose Y, Unno M, Kudo T, Kumagai I. Application of the Fc fusion format to generate tag-free bi-specific diabodies. FEBS J 2009; 277:477-87. [PMID: 20015073 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07499.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We previously reported the use of a humanized bi-specific diabody that targets epidermal growth factor receptor and CD3 (hEx3-Db) for cancer immunotherapy. Bacterial expression can be used to express small recombinant antibodies on a large scale; however, their overexpression often results in the formation of insoluble aggregates, and in most cases artificial affinity peptide tags need to be fused to the antibodies for purification by affinity chromatography. Here, we propose a novel method for preparing refined, functional, tag-free bi-specific diabodies from IgG-like bi-specific antibodies (BsAbs) in a mammalian expression system. We created an IgG-like BsAb in which bi-specific diabodies were fused to the human Fc region via a designed human rhinovirus 3C (HRV3C) protease recognition site. The BsAb was purified by protein A affinity chromatography, and the refined tag-free hEx3-Db was efficiently produced from the Fc fusion format by protease digestion. The tag-free hEx3-Db from the Fc fusion format showed a greater inhibition of cancer growth than affinity-tagged hEx3-Db prepared directly from Chinese hamster ovary cells. We also applied our novel method to another small recombinant antibody fragment, hEx3 single-chain diabody (hEx3-scDb), and demonstrated the versatility and advantages of our proposed method compared with papain digestion of hEx3-scDb. This approach may be used for industrial-scale production of functional tag-free small therapeutic antibodies.
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- Ryutaro Asano
- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Sirk SJ, Olafsen T, Barat B, Bauer KB, Wu AM. Site-specific, thiol-mediated conjugation of fluorescent probes to cysteine-modified diabodies targeting CD20 or HER2. Bioconjug Chem 2009; 19:2527-34. [PMID: 19053310 DOI: 10.1021/bc800113v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Small, engineered antibody fragments such as diabodies (50 kDa noncovalent dimers of single-chain Fv fragments) are useful alternatives to their larger antibody counterparts. However, due to their size, they are more susceptible to disruption of their antigen binding sites when modified using random conjugation techniques. Previous work has demonstrated the utility of a C-terminal cysteine modification for site-specific radiolabeling of an anti-CEA diabody, resulting in the creation of a cys-diabody (CysDb). In the present work, the adaptability of the CysDb system was explored by creating two additional CysDbs: one specific for CD20 and one for HER2. Purified CysDbs of both specificities demonstrated behavior consistent with stable, covalent dimers harboring a readily reducible disulfide bond. Each CysDb was site-specifically conjugated to three different fluorophores for optical detection: the large fluorescent proteins phycoerythrin (PE) and allophycocyanin (APC), and the small fluorescent molecule Alexa Fluor488. Fluorophore-conjugated CysDbs bound specifically to their targets in both antigen systems and with each different fluorescent tag as determined by flow cytometry. In vitro specific antigen binding was observed in the presence of a mixture of specific and nonspecifically conjugated CysDbs. Conjugates retained both specificity and fluorescence, demonstrating the successful expansion of the CysDb repertoire to new targets and to new site-specific conjugation possibilities.
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- Shannon J Sirk
- Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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Diabody-based Recombinant Formats of Humanized IgG-like Bispecific Antibody With Effective Retargeting of Lymphocytes to Tumor Cells. J Immunother 2008; 31:752-61. [DOI: 10.1097/cji.0b013e3181849071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Müller T, Uherek C, Maki G, Chow KU, Schimpf A, Klingemann HG, Tonn T, Wels WS. Expression of a CD20-specific chimeric antigen receptor enhances cytotoxic activity of NK cells and overcomes NK-resistance of lymphoma and leukemia cells. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2008; 57:411-23. [PMID: 17717662 PMCID: PMC11029838 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-007-0383-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2006] [Accepted: 07/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Despite the clinical success of CD20-specific antibody rituximab, malignancies of B-cell origin continue to present a major clinical challenge, in part due to an inability of the antibody to activate antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) in some patients, and development of resistance in others. Expression of chimeric antigen receptors in effector cells operative in ADCC might allow to bypass insufficient activation via FcgammaRIII and other resistance mechanisms that limit natural killer (NK)-cell activity. Here we have generated genetically modified NK cells carrying a chimeric antigen receptor that consists of a CD20-specific scFv antibody fragment, via a flexible hinge region connected to the CD3zeta chain as a signaling moiety. As effector cells we employed continuously growing, clinically applicable human NK-92 cells. While activity of the retargeted NK-92 against CD20-negative targets remained unchanged, the gene modified NK cells displayed markedly enhanced cytotoxicity toward NK-sensitive CD20 expressing cells. Importantly, in contrast to parental NK-92, CD20-specific NK cells efficiently lysed CD20 expressing but otherwise NK-resistant established and primary lymphoma and leukemia cells, demonstrating that this strategy can overcome NK-cell resistance and might be suitable for the development of effective cell-based therapeutics for the treatment of B-cell malignancies.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD20/immunology
- Cell Proliferation
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Kinetics
- Leukemia/immunology
- Leukemia/pathology
- Lymphoma/immunology
- Lymphoma/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, SCID
- NIH 3T3 Cells
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- Tina Müller
- Chemotherapeutisches Forschungsinstitut Georg-Speyer-Haus, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 42-44, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Chemotherapeutisches Forschungsinstitut Georg-Speyer-Haus, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 42-44, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Section of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cell Therapy, RUSH Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Frankfurt, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Chemotherapeutisches Forschungsinstitut Georg-Speyer-Haus, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 42-44, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Section of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cell Therapy, RUSH Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111 USA
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology RCBDS, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Chemotherapeutisches Forschungsinstitut Georg-Speyer-Haus, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 42-44, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Olafsen T, Gu Z, Sherman MA, Leyton JV, Witkosky ME, Shively JE, Raubitschek AA, Morrison SL, Wu AM, Reiter RE. Targeting, imaging, and therapy using a humanized antiprostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) antibody. J Immunother 2007; 30:396-405. [PMID: 17457214 DOI: 10.1097/cji.0b013e318031b53b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The murine 1G8 (micro1G8) monoclonal antibody directed against prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) prevents prostate tumor establishment, growth, and metastasis in murine models. To further delineate in vivo targeting properties, micro1G8 was radiolabeled with In-111 and evaluated in nude mice bearing PC3-PSCA xenografts. Tumor activity ranged from 11.8% to 17.1% injected dose per gram (ID/g) at 24 to 96 hours postinjection. To extend the clinical applicability of micro1G8, a chimeric 1G8 antibody was produced that exhibited specific binding to PSCA and significant antitumor effect over micro1G8 in established LAPC-9 prostate cancer xenografts (P=0.0014). However, low expression yields and instability prompted us to humanize 1G8 by grafting the complementary determining regions onto the stable, human Fv framework of anti-p185 4D5v8 (trastuzumab). Two humanized 1G8 (hu1G8) versions (A and B) that differed in the number of murine residues present in the C-terminal half of CDR-H2, were produced. Biacore binding studies demonstrated affinities of 1.47 nM for micro1G8 and 3.74 nM for hu2B3-B, representing a 2.5-fold reduction. Tumor targeting of version B radioiodinated with I was evaluated by serial microPET imaging. Specific tumor targeting of I-hu1G8-B to PC3-PSCA [12.7 (+/-1.6)% ID/g at 94 h] and LAPC-9 [6.6 (+/-0.9)% ID/g at 168 h) xenografts was observed. Inhibition of tumor growth by hu1G8-B was demonstrated in mice bearing low-expressing SW-780-PSCA bladder carcinoma xenografts. In this model, the micro1G8 was ineffective, whereas the hu1G8-B exhibited approximately 50% inhibitory effect. These data support further development of hu1G8 anti-PSCA antibody for targeted imaging and therapy for tumors of urogenital origin.
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- Tove Olafsen
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Prince SN, Foulstone EJ, Zaccheo OJ, Williams C, Hassan AB. Functional evaluation of novel soluble insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-II–specific ligand traps based on modified domain 11 of the human IGF2 receptor. Mol Cancer Ther 2007; 6:607-17. [PMID: 17308058 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-06-0509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ligands transported by the mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-II receptor (IGF2R) include IGF-II- and mannose 6-phosphate-modified proteins. Increased extracellular supply of IGF-II, either secondary to loss of the clearance function of IGF2R, loss of IGF binding protein function, or increased IGF2 gene expression, can lead to embryonic overgrowth and cancer promotion. Reduced supply of IGF-II is detrimental to tumor growth, and this suggests that gain of function of IGF-II is a molecular target for human cancer therapy. Domain 11 of IGF2R binds IGF-II with high specificity and affinity. Mutagenesis studies have shown that substitution of glutamic acid for lysine at residue 1554 results in a 6-fold higher affinity for IGF-II (20.5 nmol/L) than native domain 11 (119 nmol/L). Here, we generate a novel high-affinity IGF-II ligand trap by fusion of mutated human 11(E1554K) to a COOH-terminal human IgG1 Fc domain (11(E1554K)-Fc). The resulting homodimer has a significantly increased affinity for IGF-II (1.79 nmol/L) when measured by surface plasmon resonance. IGF-II signaling via the IGF-I receptor and the proliferative effect of IGF-II were specifically inhibited by 11(E1554K)-Fc in both HaCaT and Igf2(-/-) mouse embryonic fibroblast cells. These data confirm that a novel engineered and soluble IGF2R-11(E1554K)-Fc protein functions as an IGF-II-specific and high-affinity ligand trap in vitro and that this protein has potential application as an IGF-II antagonist for cancer therapy following in vivo experimental evaluation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Proliferation
- Drosophila melanogaster/growth & development
- Drosophila melanogaster/metabolism
- Embryo, Mammalian/cytology
- Embryo, Mammalian/metabolism
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Fibroblasts/cytology
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Genetic Vectors
- Humans
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/genetics
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/physiology
- Keratinocytes/metabolism
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Pichia/chemistry
- Pichia/metabolism
- Protein Binding
- Receptor, IGF Type 1/genetics
- Receptor, IGF Type 1/metabolism
- Receptor, IGF Type 2/genetics
- Receptor, IGF Type 2/metabolism
- Receptors, Fc/genetics
- Receptors, Fc/metabolism
- Surface Plasmon Resonance
- Thymidine/metabolism
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- Stuart N Prince
- Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS, United Kingdom
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Adamson PJ, Millard DJ, Hohmann AW, Mavrangelos C, Macardle PJ, Pilkington G, Mulhern TD, Tedder TF, Zola H, Nicholson IC. Improved antigen binding by a CD20-specific single-chain antibody fragment with a mutation in CDRH1. Mol Immunol 2006; 43:550-8. [PMID: 15936081 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2005.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2005] [Accepted: 04/12/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We have prepared single-chain immunoglobulin Fv fragments from the CD20-specific hybridoma HB13d. One scFv clone demonstrated strong binding to a CD20-derived peptide by ELISA and to CD20-positive cells by flow cytometry, a second had reduced binding, and a third clone did not bind the target antigen. Sequence analysis showed that all three constructs contained shared and unique amino acid changes when compared to the nearest germline match. Molecular modelling of the scFv variants revealed that several of the mutations are located in regions predicted to contact antigen, including a mutation in the heavy chain CDR1 of the strongest binding scFv construct. No similar mutation is present in the highly conserved protein sequences of a number of CD20-specific monoclonal antibodies. BIACORE analysis demonstrated that the mutated scFv had approximately three-fold greater antigen-binding activity than another clone. Competition studies showed that the scFv is able to compete with intact CD20 monoclonal antibody for binding to the target antigen. The improved antigen binding of this scFv will permit the construction of novel CD20-specific reagents for the therapy of lymphomas.
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- P J Adamson
- Child Health Research Institute, Women's and Children's Hospital, Leukocyte Biology Laboratory, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia
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Venkatesh S, Byrne ME, Peppas NA, Hilt JZ. Applications of biomimetic systems in drug delivery. Expert Opin Drug Deliv 2005; 2:1085-96. [PMID: 16296811 DOI: 10.1517/17425247.2.6.1085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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This review article highlights recent activities in the field of biomimetic systems and their application in controlled drug delivery. A definition and overview of biomimetic processes is given, with a focus on synthesis and assembly for the creation of novel biomaterials. In particular, systems are classified on the basis of three subsets, which include biological, biohybrid and synthetic structures. Examples focus on the current and proposed clinical significance for systems that mimic processes where the underlying molecular principles are well understood. Biomimetic materials and systems are presented as exceptional candidates for various controlled drug delivery applications and have enormous potential in medicine for the treatment of disease.
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- Siddarth Venkatesh
- Biomedical Devices and Drug Delivery Laboratories, Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5127, USA
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Rossi EA, Chang CH, Losman MJ, Sharkey RM, Karacay H, McBride W, Cardillo TM, Hansen HJ, Qu Z, Horak ID, Goldenberg DM. Pretargeting of Carcinoembryonic Antigen–Expressing Cancers with a Trivalent Bispecific Fusion Protein Produced in Myeloma Cells. Clin Cancer Res 2005; 11:7122s-7129s. [PMID: 16203811 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-1004-0020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To characterize a novel trivalent bispecific fusion protein and evaluate its potential utility for pretargeted delivery of radionuclides to tumors. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN hBS14, a recombinant fusion protein that binds bispecifically to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and the hapten, histamine-succinyl-glycine (HSG), was produced by transgenic myeloma cells and purified to near homogeneity in a single step using a novel HSG-based affinity chromatography system. Biochemical characterization included size-exclusion high-performance liquid chromatography (SE-HPLC), SDS-PAGE, and isoelectric focusing. Functional characterization was provided by BIAcore and SE-HPLC. The efficacy of hBS14 for tumor pretargeting was evaluated in CEA-expressing GW-39 human colon tumor-bearing nude mice using a bivalent HSG hapten (IMP-241) labeled with (111)In. RESULTS Biochemical analysis showed that single-step affinity chromatography provided highly purified material. SE-HPLC shows a single protein peak consistent with the predicted molecular size of hBS14. SDS-PAGE analysis shows only two polypeptide bands, which are consistent with the calculated molecular weights of the hBS14 polypeptides. BIAcore showed the bispecific binding properties and suggested that hBS14 possesses two functional CEA-binding sites. This was supported by SE-HPLC immunoreactivity experiments. All of the data suggest that the structure of hBS14 is an 80 kDa heterodimer with one HSG and two CEA binding sites. Pretargeting experiments in the mouse model showed high uptake of radiopeptide in the tumor, with favorable tumor-to-nontumor ratios as early as 3 hours postinjection. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that hBS14 is an attractive candidate for use in a variety of pretargeting applications, particularly tumor therapy with radionuclides and drugs.
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- Edmund A Rossi
- IBC Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Morris Plains, Jew Jersey, USA
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Wang J, Shi Y, Liu Y, Hu S, Ma J, Liu J, Cheng L. Purification and characterization of a single-chain chimeric anti-p185 antibody expressed by CHO-GS system. Protein Expr Purif 2005; 41:68-76. [PMID: 15802223 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2004] [Revised: 11/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Monoclonal antibody A21 reacts specifically with the extracellular domain of p185c-erbB-2 oncoprotein, a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor family. In a previous study, we constructed a single-chain chimeric antibody, assembled using an A21 single-chain Fv antibody and a human IgG1 Fc fragment. In this study, we expressed this chimeric antibody using a CHO-GS system, and developed a simple and efficient method for its purification. After only one step using affinity purification, the recovery rate and purity of the antibody attained was 60 and 91%, respectively. After a second step, using reverse phase HPLC purification, the purity was above 99%. The high purity of the recombinant antibody allowed us to identify a number of its intrinsic molecular properties, including antigen binding activity, measurement of affinity constant, N-terminal sequencing, and mass spectrometer analysis. These results further augment the potential of this recombinant antibody to be a drug candidate for cancer therapy.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/genetics
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/isolation & purification
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/metabolism
- Antibody Affinity
- Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity
- Binding, Competitive
- CHO Cells
- Chromatography, Affinity
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Cricetinae
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasms/therapy
- Receptor, ErbB-2/immunology
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/isolation & purification
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
- Transfection
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- Jing Wang
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
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Gillies SD, Lan Y, Williams S, Carr F, Forman S, Raubitschek A, Lo KM. An anti-CD20-IL-2 immunocytokine is highly efficacious in a SCID mouse model of established human B lymphoma. Blood 2005; 105:3972-8. [PMID: 15692062 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-09-3533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have engineered an anti-CD20-interleukin 2 (IL-2) immunocytokine (ICK) based on the Leu16 anti-CD20 antibody and have deimmunized both the variable (V) regions as well as the junction between the heavy (H) chain constant region and IL-2. Mutations were made to remove potential T-cell epitopes identified by in silico binding to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules. The resulting immunocytokine, DI-Leu16-IL-2, retained full anti-CD20 activity as assessed by fluorescence-activated cell-sorting (FACS) analysis, and had enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) effector function relative to the DI-Leu16 antibody or control anti-CD20 antibody (rituximab). In a severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse model of disseminated, residual lymphoma, anti-CD20-IL-2 immunocytokines based on Leu16 were far more effective at a dose of 0.25 mg/kg than anti-CD20 antibody given at 25/mg/kg, despite a shorter half-life of the ICK. Anti-CD20-IL-2 was also far more effective than a control ICK targeted to an antigen with greatly reduced expression on Daudi tumor cells, or various combinations of anti-CD20 antibodies and IL-2. Antitumor activity of DI-Leu16-IL-2 was shown to partially but not entirely depend on Fc receptor (R) binding, suggesting that ADCC and targeting of IL-2 both play roles in the mechanism of tumor clearance. Based on these animal models, DI-Leu16-IL-2 could offer therapeutic potential for patients with CD20 positive lymphoma. Clinical trials are currently under development.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived
- Antigens, CD20/immunology
- Apoptosis
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Immunotherapy
- Interleukin-2/immunology
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/drug therapy
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, SCID
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Neoplasm, Residual/drug therapy
- Neoplasm, Residual/immunology
- Rituximab
- Survival Rate
- Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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- Stephen D Gillies
- EMD Lexigen Research Center, Bedford Campus, 45A Middlesex Tpk, Billerica, MA 01821-3936, USA.
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Hamdy N, Goustin AS, Desaulniers JP, Li M, Chow CS, Al-Katib A. Sheep red blood cells armed with anti-CD20 single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) fused to a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor: a strategy to target CD20-positive tumor cells. J Immunol Methods 2005; 297:109-24. [PMID: 15777935 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2004.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2004] [Revised: 11/30/2004] [Accepted: 12/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Single-chain variable fragment antibodies (scFv) retain antigen specificity and offer advantages over intact antibodies as therapeutic agents. We cloned the cDNA of the V(H) and V(kappa) regions from a mouse hybridoma (HB-9645) directed against human CD20. In addition to the basic scFv construct (V(kappa)-L-V(H)), we genetically engineered a secretory signal, six histidine residues, and a 'Flu' tag to facilitate secretion, purification, and detection. A glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) modification signal was added at the C terminus. The GPI-tagged and the non-tagged scFvs were expressed in high yields on the surface of stably transfected insect cells. The CD20-binding properties of purified non-GPI tagged scFv were examined using flow cytometry and immunocytochemistry. The non-GPI-tagged scFv selectively recognizes CD20-positive cells in a concentration-dependent manner. Double-flow cytometry analysis using fresh peripheral blood lymphocytes and WSU-FSCCL cells revealed that our scFv resolves the B-cell population better than the intact antibody. The GPI-tagged scFv was loaded onto the surface of sheep erythrocytes to form rosettes with CD20-positive cells. The genetically engineered anti-CD20 scFv and GPI-tagged derivative have binding specificity for the CD20 antigen. The scFvs described here has potential uses as an in vivo tumor-imaging agent and as a carrier vehicle for targeted delivery of cytocidal agents to CD20-positive cancer cells.
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- Nayera Hamdy
- Lymphoma Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Xie Z, Guo N, Yu M, Hu M, Shen B. A new format of bispecific antibody: highly efficient heterodimerization, expression and tumor cell lysis. J Immunol Methods 2005; 296:95-101. [PMID: 15680154 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2004.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2004] [Revised: 10/21/2004] [Accepted: 11/03/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) have been considered as potential therapeutics for cancer. A major obstacle in the development of BsAb has been the difficulty in producing a heterodimer with two different arms and in sufficient quantity for clinical application by the traditional methods. We describe a new format of BsAb that consists of two single-chain variable fragment of antibodies (scFvs), one for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)/neu and the other for CD16, heterodimerized by a "knobs-into-holes" device from the CH3 domains of the human IgG1 Fc fragment. The two chains were functionally expressed in CHO cells and assembled into heterodimers with dual antigen-binding specificity. Compared with other types of engineered BsAbs expressed in mammalian cells, the yield of this BsAb was relatively high (12-14 mg/l). In vitro experiments demonstrated that the BsAb was able to recruit human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to kill SK-BR-3 cells more effectively than the commercial anti-HER2/neu antibody Herceptin (Roche, Shanghai). This new format of BsAb possesses properties that support its potential as a new antitumor agent.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Bispecific/genetics
- Antibodies, Bispecific/immunology
- Antibodies, Bispecific/metabolism
- Antibodies, Bispecific/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Neoplasm/genetics
- Antibodies, Neoplasm/immunology
- Antibodies, Neoplasm/pharmacology
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry
- Antineoplastic Agents/immunology
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Breast Neoplasms/immunology
- CHO Cells
- Cricetinae
- Cricetulus
- Dimerization
- GPI-Linked Proteins
- Genetic Vectors/genetics
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/drug effects
- Receptor, ErbB-2/immunology
- Receptors, IgG/immunology
- Transfection
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- Zhigang Xie
- Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Taiping Road 27, Beijing 100850, China
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Chan LA, Phillips ML, Wims LA, Trinh KR, Denham J, Morrison SL. Variable region domain exchange in human IgGs promotes antibody complex formation with accompanying structural changes and altered effector functions. Mol Immunol 2004; 41:527-38. [PMID: 15183931 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2004.03.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Variable region domain exchanged IgG, or "inside-out (io)," molecules, were produced to investigate the effects of domain interactions on antibody structure and function. Studies using ultracentrifugation and electron microscopy showed that variable region domain exchange induces non-covalent multimerization through Fab domains. Surprisingly, variable region exchange also affected Fc-associated functions such as serum half-life and binding to protein G and FcgammaRI. These alterations were not merely a consequence of IgG aggregation. Both the extent of multimerization and alterations in Fc-associated properties depended on the IgG isotype.
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- Lisa A Chan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Mertens N, Devos F, Leoen J, Van Deynse E, Willems A, Schoonooghe S, Burvenich I, De Koker S, Vlieghe D, Grooten J, Kelly A, Van de Wiele C. New Strategies in Polypeptide and Antibody Synthesis: An Overview. Cancer Biother Radiopharm 2004; 19:99-109. [PMID: 15068618 DOI: 10.1089/108497804773391748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The synthesis of radioligands can benefit considerably from optimized recombinant protein production, both on the aspect of economy of production and on the level of improving the targeting and pharmacokinetics of the ligand. This paper first describes a general production optimization strategy, and then elaborates on a protein design strategy tailored to targeting applications. Production in Escherichia coli will benefit from economy of goods and time as compared to other organisms. In order to increase the chance of finding a successful production system in this host, we have assembled a large number of expression strategies in a single, uniform expression system (FastScreen). The system allows rapid optimization of direct production of native proteins or via a fusion protein strategy with subsequent recovery of the desired protein. As an example of recombinant radioligand synthesis for improved targeting and clearing, a manifold of intermediate molecular size was synthesized by fusing one Fab and two single-chain variable fragments (scFv) antibody binding fragments into a trifunctional molecule (Tribody). Due to the use of the specific heterodimerization of the Fab chains, trispecific, bispecific, or trivalent antibody derived targeting reagents can easily be obtained. Recombinant production techniques also allow for specific incorporation of amino acids favoring a site specific labeling (labeling tags).
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- Nico Mertens
- Department of Molecular Biomedical Research, Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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Kessler N, Zvi A, Ji M, Sharon M, Rosen O, Levy R, Gorny M, Zolla-Pazner S, Anglister J. Expression, purification, and isotope labeling of the Fv of the human HIV-1 neutralizing antibody 447-52D for NMR studies. Protein Expr Purif 2003; 29:291-303. [PMID: 12767822 DOI: 10.1016/s1046-5928(03)00047-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The Fv is the smallest antigen binding fragment of the antibody and is made of the variable domains of the light and heavy chains, V(L) and V(H), respectively. The 26-kDa Fv is amenable for structure determination in solution using multi-dimensional hetero-nuclear NMR spectroscopy. The human monoclonal antibody 447-52D neutralizes a broad spectrum of HIV-1 isolates. This anti-HIV-1 antibody elicited in an infected patient is directed against the third variable loop (V3) of the envelope glycoprotein (gp120) of the virus. The V3 loop is an immunodominant neutralizing epitope of HIV-1. To obtain the 447-52D Fv for NMR studies, an Escherichia coli bicistronic expression vector for the heterodimeric 447-52D Fv and vectors for single chain Fv and individually expressed V(H) and V(L) were constructed. A pelB signal peptide was linked to the antibody genes to enable secretion of the expressed polypeptides into the periplasm. For easy cloning of any antibody gene without potential modification of the antibody sequence, restriction sites were introduced in the pelB sequence and following the termination codon. A set of oligonucleotides that prime the leader peptide genes of all potential antibody human antibodies were designed as backward primers. The forward primers for the V(L) and V(H) were based on constant region sequences. The 447-52D Fv could not be expressed either by a bicistronic vector or as single chain Fv, probably due to its toxicity to Escherichia coli. High level of expression was obtained by individual expression of the V(H) and the V(L) chains, which were then purified and recombined to generate a soluble and active 447-52D Fv fragment. The V(L) of mAb 447-52D was uniformly labeled with 13C and 15N nuclei (U-13C/15N). Preliminary NMR spectra demonstrate that structure determination of the recombinant 447-52D Fv and its complex with V3 peptides is feasible.
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- Naama Kessler
- Department of Structural Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Recombinant antibodies currently represent over 30% of biopharmaceuticals in clinical trials, highlighted by the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of Zevalin(TM) (ibritumomab-tiuxetan; IDEC Pharmaceuticals, San Dieago, CA, USA) for cancer radioimmunotherapy and Humira(TM) (adalimumab; Abbott Laboratories, IL, USA) for rheumatoid arthritis. Together, these FDA approvals have excited the biotechnology industry, particularly since sales of recombinant antibodies are increasing rapidly to a predicted US dollar 4 billion per annum worldwide in 2003. To date, 10 engineered therapeutic antibodies have gained FDA approval and many others are in Phase III trials. Many recent FDA-approved antibodies are simple molecular designs that have taken 10 years to be developed into effective therapeutic reagents. Emerging new technologies have created a vast range of recombinant, antibody-based reagents, which specifically target clinical biomarkers of disease. Radiolabelling of antibodies has increased their potential for cancer imaging and targeting. Recombinant antibodies have also been reduced in size and rebuilt into multivalent molecules for higher affinity. In addition, antibodies have been fused with many molecules, including toxins, enzymes, drugs and viruses, for prodrug therapy, cancer treatment and gene delivery. Recombinant antibody technology has enabled clever manipulations in the construction of complex in vitro libraries for the selection of high-affinity reagents against refractory targets. Furthermore, innovative affinity maturation methods have been developed which enable rapid selection of extremely high-affinity reagents. This review focuses on developments in the last 12 months and describes the latest developments in the design, production and clinical use of recombinant antibodies for cancer diagnosis and therapy.
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- Christelle Souriau
- CRC for Diagnostics and CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, 343 Royal Parade, Parkville,Victoria, Australia 3052.
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