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Blood, 15 March 2001, Vol. 97, No. 6, pp. 1679-1684
HEMOSTASIS, THROMBOSIS, AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
Monoclonal antibodies directed to different regions of vascular
endothelial cadherin extracellular domain affect adhesion and
clustering of the protein and modulate endothelial permeability
Monica Corada,
Fang Liao,
Maria Lindgren,
Maria Grazia Lampugnani,
Ferruccio Breviario,
Ronald Frank,
William A. Muller,
Daniel J. Hicklin,
Peter Bohlen, and
Elisabetta Dejana
From the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario
Negri and Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milano, Italy;
Universita' degli Studi dell' Insubria, Dipartimento di Scienze
Cliniche e Biologiche, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Varese,
Italy; Department of Immunology, ImClone Systems Incorporated, New
York, NY; Department of Neurochemistry and Neurotoxicology, Stockholm
University, Sweden; AG Molecular Recognition, GBF, Braunschweig,
Germany; and Department of Pathology, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, New York, NY.
Vascular endothelial cadherin (VE-cadherin) is an
endothelial cell-specific cadherin that plays an important role in the
control of vascular organization. Blocking VE-cadherin antibodies
strongly inhibit angiogenesis, and inactivation of VE-cadherin gene
causes embryonic lethality due to a lack of correct organization and remodeling of the vasculature. Hence, inhibitors of VE-cadherin adhesive properties may constitute a tool to prevent tumor
neovascularization. In this paper, we tested different monoclonal
antibodies (mAbs) directed to human VE-cadherin ectodomain for their
functional activity. Three mAbs (Cad 5, BV6, BV9) were able to increase
paracellular permeability, inhibit VE-cadherin reorganization, and
block angiogenesis in vitro. These mAbs could also induce endothelial
cell apoptosis in vitro. Two additional mAbs, TEA 1.31 and Hec 1.2, had
an intermediate or undetectable activity, respectively, in these
assays. Epitope mapping studies show that BV6, BV9, TEA 1.31, and Hec
1.2 bound to a recombinant fragment spanning the extracellular
juxtamembrane domains EC3 through EC4. In contrast, Cad 5 bound to the
aminoterminal domain EC1. By peptide scanning analysis and competition
experiments, we defined the sequences TIDLRY located on EC3 and
KVFRVDAETGDVFAI on EC1 as the binding domain of BV6 and Cad 5, respectively. Overall, these results support the concept that
VE-cadherin plays a relevant role on human endothelial cell properties.
Antibodies directed to the extracellular domains EC1 but also
EC3-EC4 affect VE-cadherin adhesion and clustering and alter
endothelial cell permeability, apoptosis, and vascular structure formation.

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