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Bei Y, He J, Dong X, Wang Y, Wang S, Guo W, Cai C, Xu Z, Wei J, Liu B, Zhang N, Shen P. Targeting CD44 Variant 5 with an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Is an Effective Therapeutic Strategy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma. Cancer Res 2023; 83:2405-2420. [PMID: 37205633 PMCID: PMC10345965 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-23-0510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most frequent type of primary liver cancer. ICC is among the deadliest malignancies, highlighting that novel treatments are urgently needed. Studies have shown that CD44 variant isoforms, rather than the CD44 standard isoform, are selectively expressed in ICC cells, providing an opportunity for the development of an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)-based targeted therapeutic strategy. In this study, we observed the specific expression of CD44 variant 5 (CD44v5) in ICC tumors. CD44v5 protein was expressed on the surface of most ICC tumors (103 of 155). A CD44v5-targeted ADC, H1D8-DC (H1D8-drug conjugate), was developed that comprises a humanized anti-CD44v5 mAb conjugated to the microtubule inhibitor monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) via a cleavable valine-citrulline-based linker. H1D8-DC exhibited efficient antigen binding and internalization in cells expressing CD44v5 on the cell surface. Because of the high expression of cathepsin B in ICC cells, the drug was preferentially released in cancer cells but not in normal cells, thus inducing potent cytotoxicity at picomolar concentrations. In vivo studies showed that H1D8-DC was effective against CD44v5-positive ICC cells and induced tumor regression in patient-derived xenograft models, whereas no significant adverse toxicities were observed. These data demonstrate that CD44v5 is a bona fide target in ICC and provide a rationale for the clinical investigation of a CD44v5-targeted ADC-based approach. SIGNIFICANCE Elevated expression of CD44 variant 5 in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma confers a targetable vulnerability using the newly developed antibody-drug conjugate H1D8-DC, which induces potent growth suppressive effects without significant toxicity.
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- Yuncheng Bei
- Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
- The Comprehensive Cancer Centre of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School and Clinical Cancer Institute of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- The Comprehensive Cancer Centre of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School and Clinical Cancer Institute of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- The Comprehensive Cancer Centre of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School and Clinical Cancer Institute of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Centre of Micro/Nano Manufacturing Technology (MNMT-Dublin), School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen, PR China
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Electrofusion preparation of anti-triazophos monoclonal antibodies for development of an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. J Immunol Methods 2021; 500:113184. [PMID: 34808129 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2021.113184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Immunoassays have been widely used to detect small molecular contaminants due to the advantages of simplicity, high throughout and low-cost. Antibodies are essential reagents of immunoassays, their quality directly determines the characteristics of immunoassays. In this study, the monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) of triazophos were prepared by electrofusion, and used to develop an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ic-ELISA). Under the optimal electrofusion conditions (cells treatment with pronase, the alternating electric field strength of 45 V cm-1, the direct current voltage of 3 kV), the fusion efficiency was 1.104 ± 0.063‱, which was improved more than 4-fold compared with the chemical fusion method (0.255 ± 0.089‱). Three hybrid cell lines that can stably secrete the anti-triazophos mAbs were obtained. The cell line 4G6F10 showed the highest sensitivity, which was used to generate mAb and develop an ic-ELISA. After optimization, the 50% inhibition concentration (IC50), limit of detection (LOD) and linear range (IC10-IC90) of the ic-ELISA were 0.32 ng mL-1, 0.08 ng mL-1 and 0.08-2.17 ng mL-1, respectively. There was no significant cross-reactivity with the analogues of triazophos. The average recoveries of triazophos in spiked samples were 77.5%-89.3% with the relative standard deviations of 0.1%-9.2%. In addition, the ic-ELISA showed good repeatability, reproducibility and accuracy for the analysis of apple samples spiked with triazophos.
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Mullen TE, Abdullah R, Boucher J, Brousseau AS, Dasuri NK, Ditto NT, Doucette AM, Emery C, Gabriel J, Greamo B, Patil KS, Rothenberger K, Stolte J, Souders CA. Accelerated antibody discovery targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for COVID-19 therapeutic potential. Antib Ther 2021; 4:185-196. [PMID: 34541454 PMCID: PMC8444149 DOI: 10.1093/abt/tbab018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Rapid deployment of technologies capable of high-throughput and high-resolution screening is imperative for timely response to viral outbreaks. Risk mitigation in the form of leveraging multiple advanced technologies further increases the likelihood of identifying efficacious treatments in aggressive timelines. Methods In this study, we describe two parallel, yet distinct, in vivo approaches for accelerated discovery of antibodies targeting the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 spike protein. Working with human transgenic Alloy-GK mice, we detail a single B-cell discovery workflow to directly interrogate antibodies secreted from plasma cells for binding specificity and ACE2 receptor blocking activity. Additionally, we describe a concurrent accelerated hybridoma-based workflow utilizing a DiversimAb™ mouse model for increased diversity. Results The panel of antibodies isolated from both workflows revealed binding to distinct epitopes with both blocking and non-blocking profiles. Sequence analysis of the resulting lead candidates uncovered additional diversity with the opportunity for straightforward engineering and affinity maturation. Conclusions By combining in vivo models with advanced integration of screening and selection platforms, lead antibody candidates can be sequenced and fully characterized within one to three months.
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- Tracey E Mullen
- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Product Development, Carterra, 825 N 300 W c309, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Antibody Discovery, Abveris Inc., 480 Neponset St, Ste 10B, Canton, MA 02021, USA
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Damelin M, Bankovich A, Bernstein J, Lucas J, Chen L, Williams S, Park A, Aguilar J, Ernstoff E, Charati M, Dushin R, Aujay M, Lee C, Ramoth H, Milton M, Hampl J, Lazetic S, Pulito V, Rosfjord E, Sun Y, King L, Barletta F, Betts A, Guffroy M, Falahatpisheh H, O’Donnell CJ, Stull R, Pysz M, Escarpe P, Liu D, Foord O, Gerber HP, Sapra P, Dylla SJ. A PTK7-targeted antibody-drug conjugate reduces tumor-initiating cells and induces sustained tumor regressions. Sci Transl Med 2017; 9:9/372/eaag2611. [DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aag2611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2016] [Revised: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Pluripotent reprogramming can be dominantly induced in a somatic nucleus upon fusion with a pluripotent cell such as embryonic stem (ES) cell. Cell fusion between ES cells and somatic cells results in the formation of heterokaryons, in which the somatic nuclei begin to acquire features of the pluripotent partner. The generation of interspecies heterokaryons between mouse ES- and human somatic cells allows an experimenter to distinguish the nuclear events occurring specifically within the reprogrammed nucleus. Therefore, cell fusion provides a simple and rapid approach to look at the early nuclear events underlying pluripotent reprogramming. Here, we describe a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-mediated cell fusion protocol to generate interspecies heterokaryons and intraspecies hybrids between ES cells and B lymphocytes or fibroblasts.
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- Andrzej R Malinowski
- Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.
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Ušaj M, Kandušer M. Modified Adherence Method (MAM) for Electrofusion of Anchorage-Dependent Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1313:203-216. [PMID: 25947667 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2703-6_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The artificially induced cell fusion is a useful experimental tool in biology, biotechnology and medicine. The electrofusion is a physical method for cell fusion that applies high-voltage electric pulses. The use of electric pulses causes cell membrane structural changes which bring the cell membrane in the so-called fusogenic state. When such fusogenic membranes are in close contact cell fusion takes place. Physical contact between fusion partners can be achieved by various methods and one of them is modified adherence method (MAM) described in detail here on B16-F1 cell line. The method is based on the fact that living cells form contacts in confluent culture. However, instead of using confluent cell culture, in modified adherence method cells are plated in suitable concentration and allowed to form contacts for only short predetermined period of time. During that time the cells are only slightly attached to the dish surface maintaining the spherical shape. Observed high fusion yields up to 50 % obtained by MAM in situ by dual-color fluorescence microscopy are among the highest in field of electrofusion. The method can be readily adapted to other anchorage-dependent cell lines.
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- Marko Ušaj
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Kandušer M, Ušaj M. Cell electrofusion: past and future perspectives for antibody production and cancer cell vaccines. Expert Opin Drug Deliv 2014; 11:1885-98. [DOI: 10.1517/17425247.2014.938632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Cell electrofusion using nanosecond electric pulses. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3382. [PMID: 24287643 PMCID: PMC3843160 DOI: 10.1038/srep03382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2013] [Accepted: 11/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Electrofusion is an efficient method for fusing cells using short-duration high-voltage electric pulses. However, electrofusion yields are very low when fusion partner cells differ considerably in their size, since the extent of electroporation (consequently membrane fusogenic state) with conventionally used microsecond pulses depends proportionally on the cell radius. We here propose a new and innovative approach to fuse cells with shorter, nanosecond (ns) pulses. Using numerical calculations we demonstrate that ns pulses can induce selective electroporation of the contact areas between cells (i.e. the target areas), regardless of the cell size. We then confirm experimentally on B16-F1 and CHO cell lines that electrofusion of cells with either equal or different size by using ns pulses is indeed feasible. Based on our results we expect that ns pulses can improve fusion yields in electrofusion of cells with different size, such as myeloma cells and B lymphocytes in hybridoma technology.
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Usaj M, Kanduser M. The Systematic Study of the Electroporation and Electrofusion of B16-F1 and CHO Cells in Isotonic and Hypotonic Buffer. J Membr Biol 2012; 245:583-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s00232-012-9470-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2012] [Accepted: 06/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Chang WC, Hawkes E, Keller CG, Sretavan DW. Axon repair: surgical application at a subcellular scale. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-NANOMEDICINE AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY 2010; 2:151-61. [PMID: 20101712 DOI: 10.1002/wnan.76] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Injury to the nervous system is a common occurrence after trauma. Severe cases of injury exact a tremendous personal cost and place a significant healthcare burden on society. Unlike some tissues in the body that exhibit self healing, nerve cells that are injured, particularly those in the brain and spinal cord, are incapable of regenerating circuits by themselves to restore neurological function. In recent years, researchers have begun to explore whether micro/nanoscale tools and materials can be used to address this major challenge in neuromedicine. Efforts in this area have proceeded along two lines. One is the development of new nanoscale tissue scaffold materials to act as conduits and stimulate axon regeneration. The other is the use of novel cellular-scale surgical micro/nanodevices designed to perform surgical microsplicing and the functional repair of severed axons. We discuss results generated by these two approaches and hurdles confronting both strategies.
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- Wesley C Chang
- Neuroscience and Bioengineering Programs, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- David W. Sretavan
- Departments of Ophthalmology and Physiology, Program in Neuroscience, Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Departments of Ophthalmology and Physiology, Program in Neuroscience, Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Departments of Ophthalmology and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Kjaergaard J, Shimizu K, Shu S. Electrofusion of syngeneic dendritic cells and tumor generates potent therapeutic vaccine. Cell Immunol 2004; 225:65-74. [PMID: 14698141 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2003.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Antigen presentation by dendritic cells (DCs) has the potential to elicit therapeutic immune responses against malignant tumors. One strategy utilizing DC-tumor fusion hybrids as cancer vaccine is particularly attractive because of polyclonal presentation of a diverse array of unaltered tumor antigens. We have recently developed a large-scale electrofusion technique for generating DC-tumor heterokaryons and demonstrated their superb immunogenicity. Here, employing the weakly immunogenic MCA205 sarcoma, a single vaccination with electrofusion hybrids eradicated tumors established in the lung, skin, and brain. Immunotherapy required intra-lymphoid vaccine delivery and co-administration of adjuvants such as OX-40R antibody. Tumor eradication was immunologically specific and involved the participation of both CD4 and CD8 T cells. Consistent with DC's functionality of MHC-restriction, the use of syngeneic DCs for fusion was an obligatory requirement. Fusion with allogeneic DCs completely lacked therapeutic effects. These findings provide a strong impetus for treating cancer patients with similarly generated DC-tumor hybrids.
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- Jorgen Kjaergaard
- Center for Surgery Research, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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Tanaka H, Shimizu K, Hayashi T, Shu S. Therapeutic immune response induced by electrofusion of dendritic and tumor cells. Cell Immunol 2003; 220:1-12. [PMID: 12718934 DOI: 10.1016/s0008-8749(03)00009-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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To elicit a therapeutic antitumor immune response, dendritic cells (DCs) have been employed as a cellular adjuvant. Among various DC-based approaches, fusion of DCs and tumor cells potentially confers not only DC functionality, but also a continuous source of unaltered tumor antigens. We have recently demonstrated successful generation of fusion hybrids by a large-scale electrofusion technique. The immunogenicity and therapeutic potential of fusion hybrids were further analyzed in a model system of a murine melanoma cell line expressing beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) as a surrogate tumor antigen. A single vaccination with fusion hybrids plus IL-12 induced a therapeutic immune response against 3-day established pulmonary metastases. This immunotherapy was beta-gal specific and involved both CD4 and CD8 T cells. In vitro, fusion hybrids stimulated specific IFN-gamma secretion from both CD4 and CD8 immune T cells. They also nonspecifically induced IL-10 secretion from CD4 but not CD8 T cells. Compared to other DC loadings, our results demonstrate the superior immunogenicity of fusion. The current technique of electrofusion is adequately developed for clinical use in cancer immunotherapy.
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- Hiroshi Tanaka
- Center for Surgery Research-FF50, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- D T Chiu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA.
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Ochiishi T, Chen L, Yukawa A, Saitoh Y, Sekino Y, Arai T, Nakata H, Miyamoto H. Cellular localization of adenosine A1 receptors in rat forebrain: Immunohistochemical analysis using adenosine A1 receptor-specific monoclonal antibody. J Comp Neurol 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19990823)411:2<301::aid-cne10>3.0.co;2-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Chiu DT, Wilson CF, Ryttsén F, Strömberg A, Farre C, Karlsson A, Nordholm S, Gaggar A, Modi BP, Moscho A, Garza-López RA, Orwar O, Zare RN. Chemical transformations in individual ultrasmall biomimetic containers. Science 1999; 283:1892-5. [PMID: 10082457 DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5409.1892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Individual phospholipid vesicles, 1 to 5 micrometers in diameter, containing a single reagent or a complete reaction system, were immobilized with an infrared laser optical trap or by adhesion to modified borosilicate glass surfaces. Chemical transformations were initiated either by electroporation or by electrofusion, in each case through application of a short (10-microsecond), intense (20 to 50 kilovolts per centimeter) electric pulse delivered across ultramicroelectrodes. Product formation was monitored by far-field laser fluorescence microscopy. The ultrasmall characteristic of this reaction volume led to rapid diffusional mixing that permits the study of fast chemical kinetics. This technique is also well suited for the study of reaction dynamics of biological molecules within lipid-enclosed nanoenvironments that mimic cell membranes.
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- D T Chiu
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Li LH, Hensen ML, Zhao YL, Hui SW. Electrofusion between heterogeneous-sized mammalian cells in a pellet: potential applications in drug delivery and hybridoma formation. Biophys J 1996; 71:479-86. [PMID: 8804630 PMCID: PMC1233498 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(96)79249-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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High-efficiency electrofusion between cells of different sizes was achieved by application of fusing electric pulses to cells in centrifuged pellets. Larger target cells (Chinese hamster ovary or L1210 cells) were stacked among smaller human erythrocytes or erythrocyte ghosts by sequential centrifugation at 700 g to form five-tier pellets in a specially designed centrifugation-electrofusion chamber. The membranes of erythrocytes and ghost were labeled with fluorescent membrane dye (1,1' dioctadecyl-3,3,3'3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine (Dil)), and the contents of ghosts were loaded with water-soluble fluorescent dye (42-kDa fluorescein isothiocyanate dextran (FITC-dextran)), to monitor heterogeneous cell fusion. Fusion efficiency was assayed by the extent of either membrane dye mixing or contents (FITC-dextran) mixing with target cells. Four rectangular electric pulses at 300 V and 80 microseconds each were found to give the optimal fusion results of approximately 80% heterogeneous fusion by the content-mixing assay and approximately 95% by the membrane-dye-mixing assay. Cell viability remained greater than 80% after electrofusion. Because of the electric breakdown of cell membranes at the beginning of the pulse, the pellet resistance and hence the partial voltage across the pellet reduced rapidly during the remaining pulse time. This voltage redistribution favored the survival of fused cells. The limited colloidal-osmotic swelling of cells in pellets enhanced cell-cell contact and increased the pellet resistance after each pulse. As a result, the partial voltage across the pellet was restored when the next pulse was applied. This redistribution of pulse voltage in the pellet system permitted the breakdown of cell membranes at a lower applied voltage threshold than that required for electrofusion of cells in suspension or in dielectrophoretic cell chains. The cell viability and soluble dye retention within cells (FITC-dextran) remained at the same high levels for 3 h when the cells were incubated in respective culture media with serum at 37 degrees C. Viability and dye retention decreased significantly within 30 min when cells were incubated in phosphate-buffered saline without serum. The pellet technique was applied to form hybridomas by fusion of larger SP2/0 murine myelomas with smaller naive mouse lymphocytes. An optimum of 173 +/- 70 hypoxanthine aminopterin thymidine (HAT)-selected clones of the hybridomas was obtained from 40,000 SP2/0 cells and 1.5 x 10(6) lymphocytes used in each trial. This high-efficiency fusion technique may be adapted to mediate drug and gene transfer to target cells ex vivo as well as to form hybrid cells with limited cell sources.
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- L H Li
- Membrane Biophysics Laboratory, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263 USA
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Yoshida K, Arai T, Yokota T, Komatsu N, Miura Y, Yanagisawa K, Tetsuka T, Tominaga S. Studies on natural ST2 gene products in the human leukemic cell line UT-7 using monoclonal antihuman ST2 antibodies. Hybridoma (Larchmt) 1995; 14:419-27. [PMID: 8575790 DOI: 10.1089/hyb.1995.14.419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Eight species of murine monoclonal antibodies against human ST2 protein, which is highly similar in protein sequence to the interleukin 1 receptor, were produced. The fusion was carried out between the murine myeloma cell line PAI and murine lymph node or spleen cells from mice immunized with the recombinant ST2 protein produced in Escherichia coli. Characterization of these monoclonal antibodies by immunoblot analysis revealed that they all reacted with recombinant, N-glycosylated ST2 protein that was secreted from COS7 cells transiently transfected with a mammalian expression vector carrying ST2 cDNA. The recombinant N-glycosylated ST2 protein could be immunoprecipitated by 5 out of 6 species of the IgG class monoclonal antibodies. Furthermore, these antibodies were also able to detect, by immunofluorescence, the membrane-bound chimeric molecule possessing an extracellular portion of human ST2 and a transmembrane and cytoplasmic portion of murine receptor type ST2L expressed on COS7 cells, indicating that these monoclonal antibodies were useful for detecting the natural membrane-bound ST2 in human cells. Combining immunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence with the aid of these monoclonal antibodies, together with the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction method, the human leukemic cell line UT-7 was demonstrated to express human ST2 mRNA and protein. The identification of the ST2 gene product in UT-7 cells may help investigators elucidate the function of the human ST2 gene.
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- K Yoshida
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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