Cure of xenografted human tumors by bispecific monoclonal antibodies and human T cells

Science. 1994 May 6;264(5160):833-5. doi: 10.1126/science.8171337.

Abstract

Tumor immunotherapy should increase both the number of T cells that kill the tumor and the likelihood that those cells are activated at the tumor site. Bispecific monoclonal antibodies (Bi-mAbs) were designed that bound to a Hodgkin's tumor-associated antigen (CD30) on the tumor and to either CD3 or CD28 on the T cell. Immunodeficient mice were cured of established human tumors when mice were treated with both the CD3-CD30 and the CD28-CD30 Bi-mAbs and then given human peripheral blood lymphocytes that had been incubated with the CD3-CD30 Bi-mAb and cells that expressed CD30. The enrichment of human T cells within the tumor and the fact that established tumors can be cured may indicate in situ activation of both the T cell receptor and the costimulatory pathway.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bispecific / immunology
  • Antibodies, Bispecific / therapeutic use*
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • CD28 Antigens / immunology*
  • CD3 Complex / immunology*
  • Hodgkin Disease / immunology
  • Hodgkin Disease / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Ki-1 Antigen / immunology*
  • Lymphocyte Activation
  • Mice
  • Mice, SCID
  • Neoplasm Transplantation
  • Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / immunology
  • T-Lymphocyte Subsets / immunology*
  • Transplantation, Heterologous

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bispecific
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • CD28 Antigens
  • CD3 Complex
  • Ki-1 Antigen
  • Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell