TY - JOUR
T1 - Higher cytotoxicity of divalent antibody-toxins than monovalent antibody-toxins
AU - Won, Jae Seon
AU - Nam, Pil Won
AU - Lee, Yong Chan
AU - Choe, Mu Hyeon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Korea University Grant and the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. R01-2006-000-10125-0).
PY - 2009/4/24
Y1 - 2009/4/24
N2 - Recombinant antibody-toxins are constructed via the fusion of a "carcinoma-specific" antibody fragment to a toxin. Due to the high affinity and high selectivity of the antibody fragments, antibody-toxins can bind to surface antigens on cancer cells and kill them without harming normal cells [L.H. Pai, J.K. Batra, D.J. FitzGerald, M.C. Willingham, I. Pastan, Anti-tumor activities of immunotoxins made of monoclonal antibody B3 and various forms of Pseudomonas exotoxin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88 (1991) 3358-3362]. In this study, we constructed the antibody-toxin, Fab-SWn-PE38, with SWn (n = 3, 6, 9) sequences containing n-time repeated (G4S) between the Fab fragment and PE38 (38 kDa truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin A). The SWn sequence also harbored one cysteine residue that could form a disulfide bridge between two Fab-SWn-PE38 monomers. We assessed the cytotoxicity of the monovalent (Fab-SWn-PE38), and divalent ([Fab-SWn-PE38]2) antibody-toxins. The cytotoxicity of the dimer against the CRL1739 cell line was approximately 18.8-fold higher than that of the monomer on the ng/ml scale, which was approximately 37.6-fold higher on the pM scale. These results strongly indicate that divalency provides higher cytotoxicity for an antibody-toxin.
AB - Recombinant antibody-toxins are constructed via the fusion of a "carcinoma-specific" antibody fragment to a toxin. Due to the high affinity and high selectivity of the antibody fragments, antibody-toxins can bind to surface antigens on cancer cells and kill them without harming normal cells [L.H. Pai, J.K. Batra, D.J. FitzGerald, M.C. Willingham, I. Pastan, Anti-tumor activities of immunotoxins made of monoclonal antibody B3 and various forms of Pseudomonas exotoxin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88 (1991) 3358-3362]. In this study, we constructed the antibody-toxin, Fab-SWn-PE38, with SWn (n = 3, 6, 9) sequences containing n-time repeated (G4S) between the Fab fragment and PE38 (38 kDa truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin A). The SWn sequence also harbored one cysteine residue that could form a disulfide bridge between two Fab-SWn-PE38 monomers. We assessed the cytotoxicity of the monovalent (Fab-SWn-PE38), and divalent ([Fab-SWn-PE38]2) antibody-toxins. The cytotoxicity of the dimer against the CRL1739 cell line was approximately 18.8-fold higher than that of the monomer on the ng/ml scale, which was approximately 37.6-fold higher on the pM scale. These results strongly indicate that divalency provides higher cytotoxicity for an antibody-toxin.
KW - Avidity
KW - Cytotoxicity
KW - Divalent antibody-toxin
KW - Pseudomonas exotoxin A
KW - Recombinant antibody refolding
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.02.091
DO - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.02.091
M3 - Article
C2 - 19245794
AN - SCOPUS:63149196590
SN - 0006-291X
VL - 382
SP - 15
EP - 20
JO - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
JF - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
IS - 1
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