Enhancement of the selectivity and antitumor efficacy of a CC-1065 analogue through immunoconjugate formation.

Autor: Chari RV; ImmunoGen. Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4239, USA., Jackel KA, Bourret LA, Derr SM, Tadayoni BM, Mattocks KM, Shah SA, Liu C, Blättler WA, Goldmacher VS
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cancer research [Cancer Res] 1995 Sep 15; Vol. 55 (18), pp. 4079-84.
Abstrakt: Bis-indolyl-(seco)-1,2,9a-tetrahydrocyclopropa[c]benz[e]indol-4-on e compounds are synthetic analogues of CC-1065 that are highly cytotoxic toward a broad spectrum of tumor cell lines. One of these compounds, called DC1, was conjugated to antibodies via novel cleavable disulfide linkers. Conjugates of DC1 with murine mAbs anti-B4 and N901 directed against tumor-associated antigens CD19 and CD56, respectively, proved to be extremely potent and antigen selective in killing target cells in culture. DC1 conjugates with humanized versions of anti-B4 and N901 antibodies were also constructed and demonstrated to be as cytotoxic and selective as the respective murine antibody conjugates. The anti-B4-DC1 conjugate showed antitumor efficacy in an aggressive metastatic human B-cell lymphoma survival model in SCID mice and completely cured animals hearing large tumors. Anti-B4-DC1 was considerably more effective in this tumor model than doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, etoposide, or vincristine at their maximum tolerated doses.
Databáze: MEDLINE