B3(Fv)-PE38KDEL, a Single-chain Immunotoxin That Causes Complete Regression of a Human Carcinoma in Mice

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1991 Oct 1

PMID 1924323

Citations 50

Authors

U Brinkmann

L H Pai

D J Fitzgerald

M Willingham

I Pastan

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Abstract

The genes encoding the heavy- and light-chain Fv regions of the monoclonal murine antibody B3, which recognizes a carbohydrate antigen on the surface of many human carcinomas, were cloned by PCR techniques and used to generate single-chain immunotoxins containing Pseudomonas exotoxin (PE). The light and heavy chains were connected by a flexible linker to form a single-chain antigen-binding protein, B3(Fv), which was in turn fused to truncated forms of PE lacking the cell-binding domain. The single-chain Fv and two different B3(Fv) immunotoxins, B3(Fv)-PE40 and B3(Fv)-PE38KDEL, were expressed in Escherichia coli and the single-chain immunotoxins were purified to near homogeneity. Both recombinant immunotoxins were shown to be cytotoxic specifically to carcinoma cell lines that express the B3 antigen on their surface; B3(Fv)-PE38KDEL was significantly more active. Furthermore, intravenous administration of B3(Fv)-PE38KDEL caused complete regression of human epidermoid carcinomas growing subcutaneously in immunodeficient mice.

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