Monoclonal Antibodies to Early Pregnancy Factor Perturb Tumour Cell Growth

Overview

Journal Clin Exp Immunol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1990 Apr 1

PMID 2323098

Citations 11

Authors

K A Quinn

T Y Wong

B E Rolfe

A C Cavanagh

H Morton

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Abstract

The pregnancy-associated substance early pregnancy factor (EPF) has previously been reported as a product of tumours of germ cell origin. More recently EPF (or an EPF-related substance, tEPF) has also been detected in the serum of patients bearing tumours of non-germ cell origin. We report here the production of tEPF by a variety of cultured transformed and tumour cell lines, of both germ and non-germ cell origin. Antibodies specific for EPF remove all tEPF activity from tumour cell conditioned medium. tEPF production is found to be associated with cell division; tEPF is no longer detected after growth arrest or differentiation. Co-culture of tumour cells with increasing doses of anti-EPF monoclonal antibodies resulted in a significant, dose-dependent decrease in rate of cell growth and viability. Similar anti-EPF concentrations had no effect on the concanavalin A induced proliferation of mouse spleen cells. These studies suggest, therefore, that tEPF is a growth-regulated product of cultured tumour and transformed cells. These cells are also dependent upon tEPF for continued growth, i.e. tEPF is acting in the autocrine mode.

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