“…This explains that, in vitro and in vivo, the mitogenic response varies with the antibody isotype (murine IgG 2 a ) IgG 1 ) IgG 2 b ) IgA) and that CD3-specific F(ab 0 )2 fragments, lacking the Fc portion, are non-mitogenic [17,18,[28][29][30]. The fact that non-mitogenic F(ab 0 )2 fragments fully retain their therapeutic activity was the rationale behind the engineering of non-Fc receptor binding humanised CD3-specific antibodies [17,[31][32][33][34][35]. It is important to emphasize that nonFc binding CD3-specific antibodies still trigger partial signalling both in vitro and in vivo, an effect that appears to be essential for their therapeutic activity [17,36,37].…”