Level of anti-mouse-antibody response induced by bi-specific monoclonal antibody OC/TR in ovarian-carcinoma patients is associated with longer survival
✍ Scribed by Silvia Miotti; Donatella R.M. Negri; Olga Valota; Marcella Calabrese; Reinder L.H. Bolhuis; Jan W. Gratama; Maria I. Colnaghi; Silvana Canevari
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 88 KB
- Volume
- 84
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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✦ Synopsis
More than 60% of cancer patients injected with intact murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) develop a humoral response against the antigen even after a single dose. Analysis of a series of 35 ovarian-cancer patients entered in phase-I and -II clinical studies of T-cells retargeted with the bi-specific F(ab')2 OC/TR revealed: (i) a detectable human anti-mouse antibody (HAMA) response in 31/35 (88%) patients, with high HAMA levels (> or = 150 ng/ml) in 18/31 (58%) cases by the end of the treatment; (ii) no correlation between HAMA levels and the form of delivery of the mAb (OC/TR bound to T cells or bound plus soluble), time schedule or cumulative dose; (iii) an association between high HAMA levels and favorable clinical parameters and response to immunotherapy; and (iv) a significantly longer median survival probability in patients with high HAMA levels than in patients with lower HAMA levels, even when the sub-group of non-responder patients was considered. Evaluation of the anti-idiotypic response in HAMA-positive sera indicated that 11/17 sera showed high-titer (>6000) binding of OC/TR, as evaluated by a specific radioimmunoassay, and 15/18 and 16/16 sera specifically inhibited the binding of the MOv18 and anti-CD3 parental MAbs to ovarian-carcinoma cells and T lymphocytes respectively. Of 7 patients evaluated for duration of the HAMA response, 5 showed stable or even increased HAMA levels. The long-lasting HAMA response maintained an anti-idiotypic component, directed mainly against the alphaCD3 idiotype of bi-MAb OC/TR in 2 out of 3 cases tested.