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Conjugation of Blocked Ricin to an Anti-CD19 Monoclonal Antibody Increases Antibody-Induced Cell Calcium Mobilization and CD19 Internalization
Anne-Christine Goulet,
Victor S. Goldmacher,
John M. Lambert,
Chantal Baron,
Denis-Claude Roy, and
Edouard Kouassi
From Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and ImmunoGen, Inc, Cambridge, MA.
CD19 (B4) is a signal transduction molecule restricted to the B-cell lineage and the target of the immunotoxin anti-B4-blocked ricin (anti-B4-bR), which is composed of the monoclonal antibody (MoAb) anti-B4 and the modified plant toxin blocked ricin. To explore the influence of conjugation of blocked ricin to anti-B4 on functional activation of CD19, we investigated the effects of anti-B4-bR, and that of unconjugated anti-B4, on intracellular calcium mobilization and ligand/receptor internalization. The data showed that anti-B4-bR was more potent than anti-B4 in triggering cell calcium mobilization. Two other immunotoxins that bind to the B-cell surface, anti-CD20-bR and anti-CD38-bR, were devoid of the calcium increasing effect of anti-B4-bR. Furthermore, anti-B4 conjugated to ricin A-chain was also without effect in Namalwa cells, indicating that the ricin B-chain component was required for anti-B4-bR effect. Anti-B4-bR-induced calcium mobilization was inhibited in the presence of lactose, yet the calcium response induced by cross-linking anti-B4-bR with a second step antibody was not affected. The extent of CD19 modulation induced by anti-B4-bR was higher than that induced by anti-B4, and lactose dampened the effect of the immunotoxin down to that of the MoAb. Moreover, the number of internalized immunotoxin molecules was higher than that of unconjugated MoAb. Although a mechanism involving dimerization of the immunotoxin cannot be excluded, our findings suggest that the residual binding activity of the blocked ricin B-chain to cell surface molecules plays an important role in the greater calcium fluxes and greater internalization rate of anti-B4-bR, and is of functional significance in the mechanism of intoxication of cells by the immunotoxin.
Blood, Vol. 90 No. 6 (September 15), 1997:
pp. 2364-2375
© 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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