| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIBAGUCHI Hirotomo Fukuoka University, School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部, 助手 (60295061)
KUROKI Motomu Fukuoka University, School of Medicine, Lecturer, 医学部, 講師 (10131822)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We generated fully human mAbs (HmAbs) to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) using the KM mouse, which carries a human chromosome 14 fragment containing the entire Ig H chain loci and human kappa L chain segments in the mouse genome. Forty-six hybridoma clones producing HmAbs to CEA were thus obtained by fusing the P3-U1 mouse mycloma cells with splenocytes of the KM mice immunized with CEA. Among them, 22 clones produced HmAbs that reacted with CEA but not with 3 other CEA-related cell adhesion molecule (CEACAM) family members, CEACAM1, CEACAM6 and CEACAM8. In 12 HmAbs examined, 8 were IgG4, 2 were IgG3, 1 was IgG2, and the other was IgG1. The affinity constants for CEA of these HmAbs were comparable to those of the previously prepared mouse anti-CEA mAbs (MmAbs). BlAcore analyses revealed that 1 and 2 of the 22 HmAbs react with 2 epitopes defined by MmAbs on the domain N and the domain Al or B 1 of CEA, respectively
In the presence of human complement in vitro, 2 HmAbs tested showed substantial cytotoxicity, namely, 50-65%, against CEA-expressing tumor cells. With human lymphokine-activated killer cells in vitro, 3 HmAbs tested exhibited 40-65% Ab-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity against the tumor cells. Moreover, one of the HmAbs induced a significant inhibition of tumor growth when administered to mice xenografted with the CEA-expressing cells.
Considering their, lack of immunogenicity to humans, these CEA-specific HmAbs may be useful for immunotherapeutic approaches as well as for immunodiagnosis.
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