title: Characterization of a humanized anti-CD20 antibody with potent antitumor activity against B-cell lymphoma.
abstract: Despite the effectiveness of the anti-CD20 chimeric antibody (mAb), rituximab, in treating B-cell lymphomas, its efficacy remains variable and often modest. In this study, a humanized anti-CD20 antibody, hu8E4, was generated by complementarity-determining region grafting method. Hu8E4 was as effective as rituximab in mediating antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity and inducing apoptosis in B-lymphoma cells, but it exhibited much more potent complement-dependent cytotoxicity than rituximab. Immunotherapeutic studies showed that hu8E4 was significantly more effective than rituximab in prolonging the survival of severe combined immunodeficient mice bearing human B-cell lymphomas, suggesting that it might be a promising therapeutic agent for B-cell lymphomas.
authors.affiliation: International Joint Cancer Institute and 301 General Hospital Cancer Center, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, and PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, PR China.
authors.forename: Lan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Chong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Dapeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xunming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Weizhu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bohua
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yajun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D000920:Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity; D018951:Antigens, CD20 / Q000276:immunology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D016466:CHO Cells; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D017931:DNA Primers; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy; D051379:Mice; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D018951:Antigens, CD20; D017931:DNA Primers