Induction of antitumor immunity by an anti-idiotype antibody mimicking carcinoembryonic antigen.
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a tumor-associated antigen expressed on most gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas and is a putative target for cancer immunotherapy. We developed a murine monoclonal anti-idiotype (anti-Id) antibody, 3H1, which mimics a specific epitope of CEA, for cancer immunotherapy. In this study, the efficacy of 3H1 as a tumor vaccine was evaluated in a murine tumor model. In this model, the murine colorectal cancer cell line MC-38 was transduced with the human CEA gene and injected into syngeneic C57BL/6 (H-2b) mice. Immunization of naive mice with 3H1 conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin Freund's adjuvant induced humoral and cellular anti-3H1 as well as anti-CEA immunity. Mice immunized with 3H1 were protected against a challenge with lethal doses of MC-38-cea, whereas no protection was observed when 3H1 vaccinated mice were challenged with CEA negative MC-38 cells or when mice were vaccinated with an unrelated anti-Id antibody and challenged with MC-38-cea cells (P < 0.003). These data demonstrate that the 3H1 vaccine can induce protective CEA-specific antitumor immunity.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536-0096, USA.
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Bhattacharya-Chatterjee
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Zeytin
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D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000276:immunology*; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D000920:Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006433:Hemocyanins / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000276:immunology
D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen; D006433:Hemocyanins; C032808:keyhole-limpet hemocyanin