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Blood, 15 December 2007, Vol. 110, No. 13, pp. 4370-4372. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on October 1, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-06-097014.
Submitted June 27, 2007
Department of Translational Biology, Seattle Genetics, Inc., Seattle, WA, United States * Corresponding author; email: hgerber{at}seagen.com.
Increased expression of CD30 is associated with a variety of hematologic malignancies, including Hodgkin's disease (HD) and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). The anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody SGN-30 induces direct antitumor activity by promoting growth arrest and DNA fragmentation of CD30 positive tumor cells. In this study, we investigated the contributions of Fc-mediated effector cell functions to SGN-30 activity. We determined that antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP), mediated by macrophages, to contribute significantly to antitumor activity in vitro. To delineate the identity of the host effector cells involved in mediating anti-tumor activity in vivo, we studied the effects of effector cell ablation in a disseminated model of HD (L540cy). Depletion of macrophages markedly reduced efficacy of SGN-30 demonstrating that macrophages contribute significantly to SGN-30 efficacy in this model. These findings may have implications for patient stratification or combination treatment strategies in clinical trials conducted with SGN-30 in HD and ALCL.
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