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An antigen identified by two monoclonal anti-colorectal cancer antibodies was studied in sera of 85 patients who had a resection of their primary colorectal cancer. Preoperative and postoperative serum samples and sera collected every 3 months for at least 1 year were included in this study. The levels of these antigens were compared to the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels. Sixty-six patients had at least one antigen elevated in the preoperative period. Malignancy recurred in 10 patients. In 8 of these the recurrence could have been predicted by the persistence or rise in antigen levels 3 to 18 months prior to the detection of the recurrence by current clinical methods. The data suggest that the assays for these antigens are valuable prognostic aids for making clinical therapeutic decisions and appropriately stratifying patients for clinical trials.
An antigen identified by two monoclonal anti-colorectal cancer antibodies was studied in sera of 85 patients who had a resection of their primary colorectal cancer. Preoperative and postoperative serum samples and sera collected every 3 months for at least 1 year were included in this study. The levels of these antigens were compared to the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels. Sixty-six patients had at least one antigen elevated in the preoperative period. Malignancy recurred in 10 patients. In 8 of these the recurrence could have been predicted by the persistence or rise in antigen levels 3 to 18 months prior to the detection of the recurrence by current clinical methods. The data suggest that the assays for these antigens are valuable prognostic aids for making clinical therapeutic decisions and appropriately stratifying patients for clinical trials.
The Con A acceptor glycoproteins of murine and human tumour cell lines revealed by two-dimensional fingerprinting on polyacrylamide gels fall into two main categories: constant glycoproteins expressed by all cell lines and variable glycoproteins which are only expressed by particular tumour cell lines. Since the number of variable glycoproteins on a typical fingerprint is 50, fingerprints from different cell lines are readily distinguishable. However the variable glycoproteins are not expressed idiosyncratically and cell lines derived from similar classes of tumours express similar patterns of the variable glycoproteins. For example, murine fibrosarcomas express patterns which are virtually identical with one another. Characteristic patterns are also expressed by murine macrophage tumour lines, human carcinomas and human B lymphoblastoid cells. Thus, the variable glycoproteins behave as a set of linked markers which are indicators of the type of normal pre-neoplastic precursor cell from which a tumour is derived and appear to be a new type of marker for tumour cell classification. Antibodies to these glycoproteins could prove useful in tumour localisation and diagnosis. Images Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6
Monoclonal antibodies with selectivity for human lung cancer were produced by immunizing BALB/c mice with an established line of human small cell lung cancer (NCI-H69) and fusing the mouse spleen cells to mouse myeloma line X63-Ag8.653. The resulting hybrid cells were initially screened' by immunoautoradiography for production of antibodies that would react with NCI-H69 and another small cell lung cancer line (NCI-H128) but not its autologous B-lymphoblastoid line (NCI-H128BL). Stable monoclonal antibody-producing lines were isolated by repeated cloning. Three independently derived monoclonal antibodies, designated 525A5, 534F8, and 538F12, were found to react with three of the major types of human lung cancer (small cell, adenocarcinoma, and squamous carcinoma). They did not react with bronchioloalveolar and large cell lung cancers, myeloma, lymphomas, leukemias, osteogeneic sarcoma, mesothelioma, hypernephroma, malignant melanoma, simian virus 40-transformed human fetal lung cells, skin fibroblast lines, human B-lymphoblastoid lines, human erythrocytes, and rodent cells. Interestingly, these antibodies also bound to three out ofthree human neuroblastomas and two out of three breast cancers but failed to react with mouse neuroblastoma and rat pheochromocytoma. The monoclonal antibodies reacted with human small cell lung cancer tumors obtained at autopsy, but had insignificant reactions with normal human lung, liver, spleen, and skeletal muscle. We conclude that monoclonal antibodies have been generated that react with common antigenic determinants expressed on several human lung cancer types, neuroblastoma, and some breast cancers, but are not detectable by our current assays on a variety of other human tumors or normal adult human tissues. Such antibodies are of potential clinical and biological importance.Antibodies with sufficient specificity for human lung cancer are potentially important diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Several groups have prepared polyclonal antibodies with potential specificity for lung cancer by using standard immunologic methods (1-8). The development of somatic cell hybrid technology for the production of monoclonal antibodies (9) offers a different approach, and several monoclonal antibodies have been reported with various degrees of specificity to a variety of human neoplasms (10-17). In this report, we describe the use of this technology to prepare antibodies with specificity for human lung cancer. As a first approach, we wanted to make monoclonal antibodies that react selectively with lung tumors but not with autologous histocompatibility antigens. Thus, we immunized mice with a line of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and screened the resultant hybrid cell antibodies for reactivity against the immunizing line and another SCLC line and for lack ofreactivity with an autologous B-lymphoblastoid cell line. Using this strategy, we have isolated, cloned, and developed stable hybrid cell lines producing antibodies that detect determinants expressed on human SCLC, and to a lesser ...
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