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- Title
Complement dependent cytotoxicity activity of therapeutic antibody fragments is acquired by immunogenic glycan coupling.
- Authors
Courtois, Anthony; Gac-Breton, Stéphanie; Berthou, Christian; Guézennec, Jean; Bordron, Anne; Boisset, Claire
- Abstract
Oligosaccharides are implicated in the development of the immune response notably in complement activation. Anti-tumoural immunotherapy by monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) offers some advantages to chemotherapy including cell targeting but some of them are inefficient to generate cytotoxicity dependent complement (CDC) known to be important in the antibody's efficacy. The aim of this study is to give a CDC activity of mAb by linkage of a complement activating oligosaccharide to this antibody via a hetero-bifunctional linker allowing control of the conjugation reaction. We worked on non Hodgkin Burkitt's lymphoma as cancer source, Fab fragments of rituximab devoid of complement activity as mAb and the trisaccharide Galα(1→3)Galβ(1→4)GlcNAc as immunogenic glycan. The bioconjugate Fab-Gal was characterized by biochemical methods and we demonstrated that the α-Gal epitope was recognized by seric immunoglobulins. After checking the recognition capacity of the Fab-Gal conjugate for the CD20 epitope, in vitro assays were performed to evaluate the activation of the complement cascade by the Fab-Gal conjugate. The effect of this bioconjugate was confirmed by the evaluation of the proliferation response of Burkitt's cell line. The relative facility realization of this strategy represents new approaches to increase activities of mAbs.
- Subjects
CELL-mediated cytotoxicity; THERAPEUTICS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOGENETICS; GLYCANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY
- Publication
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
0717-3458
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2225/vol15-issue5-fulltext-3