title: Biosynthetic granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor enhances neutrophil cytotoxicity toward human leukemia cells.
abstract: Purified biosynthetic (recombinant) human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) enhances antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) of human neutrophils toward human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60), B-lymphoma cells, and human T-leukemia virus II-infected human B-lymphoblastoid cells. The stimulation of antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity is rapid (less than an hour), occurs at picomolar concentrations of GM-CSF, and does not require the presence of GM-CSF during the killing reaction. Therefore, neutrophils may be targeted toward tumor cells by antibody and their tumoricidal activity enhanced by GM-CSF in vitro. These results suggest that GM-CSF may have therapeutic utility in cancer therapy by increasing the number and activity of effector cells directed toward tumors by receptors to the immunoglobulin Fc fragment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fabian
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Baldwin
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Golde
mesh_terms: D000920:Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity; D001402:B-Lymphocytes; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000473:pathology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000502:physiology*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D006133:Growth Substances; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor