Specific cytotoxic effect of neocarzinostatin conjugated to monoclonal antibody A7 on human pancreatic carcinoma

Gastroenterol Jpn. 1990 Apr;25(2):244-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02776823.

Abstract

The anti-cancer drug neocarzinostatin (NCS) was bound covalently to the monoclonal antibody A7 to form the conjugate A7-NCS. This antibody was produced by fusing the spleen cells of a mouse immunized against human colonic carcinoma with murine myeloma cells and reacts with a high percentage of human pancreatic carcinoma cell lines and with no normal human pancreas tissue by immunoperoxidase staining. The cytotoxic effect of A7-NCS was tested by measuring the inhibition of 3H-thymidine incorporation into human pancreatic carcinoma cells. The A7-NCS was approximately 2.7 times as effective as free NCS against human pancreatic carcinoma cells which reacted with the monoclonal antibody A7. A7-NCS had almost the same cytotoxicity a free NCS on human pancreatic carcinoma cells which did not react with the monoclonal antibody A7. A7-NCS appeared to be potentially useful as a conjugate for immunotargeting chemotherapy against pancreatic carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / therapeutic use*
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / therapeutic use*
  • Cell Survival / drug effects
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Humans
  • Immunoenzyme Techniques
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Zinostatin / administration & dosage
  • Zinostatin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Zinostatin