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Anti-tumor antibody produced by human tumor-infiltrating and peripheral blood B lymphocytes

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  • B Lymphocytes, Tumor Antibodies, Tumor-infiltrating Lymphocytes, Immunoglobulin, Immunoglobulin, Isotypes
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Cell suspensions from 69 human tumor biopsies and malignant effusions depleted of infiltrating T cells were incubated for 10–14 days with mitomycin-C-treated cells of the transformed T cell line MOT as feeder cells. B lymphocytes proliferated and differentiated as indicated by immunoglobulin (Ig) seerction in the culture supernatants (B cell expansion). Ig was present in culture supernatants of tumor cell suspensions incubated without MOT feeder cells (non-expanded cells), but the addition of MOT feeder cells to these cultures invariably resulted in a significant increase in Ig concentration. While IgG, IgA. and IgM isotypes were all detected in supernatants of both expanded- and nonexpanded tumor cell suspensions, the increase in total Ig induced by MOT feeder cells was mainly due to an increase in IgG. Peripheral blood B lymphocytes (PBBL) from 15 cancer patients and 4 healthy individuals were also successfully expanded by the same method. In these it was shown that IgA was the predominant Ig isotype. Using a modified enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, IgG of 25/36 expansions from tumor cell suspensions showed reactivity with autologous tumor targets, and that from 10/13 expansions reacted with allogeneic tumor targets of the same histological diagnosis. No reactivity was found against tumor targets of different histology. IgG of 4/10 expansions of PBBL from cancer patients showed reactivity with allogeneic tumor targets of the same histology, while no reactivity was demonstrated against tumor targets of different histology. IgG of expanded PBBL from healthy individuals showed no reactivity against tumor targets. This method allows detailed study of the specific humoral antitumor immune response of intratumoral and peripheral blood B lymphocytes in cancer.

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  1. Section of Hematology and Oncology, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, 85724, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Cornelis J. A. Punt, Jose A. M. Barbuto, Hua Zhang & Evan M. Hersh

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, 85724, Tucson, AZ, USA

    William J. Grimes

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona, 85724, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Kenneth D. Hatch

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Work supported by grants from the Share and Concern Foundations and grant CA MOPP from the National Institutes of Health, C.J.A.P. is a visiting scientist from the University of Nijmegen, Department of Medical Oncology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is supported by a Fulbright Senior Research Grant and grants from the Dutch Cancer Society and the Regional Cancer Center of the East Netherlands (IKO). J.A.M.B. is a visiting scientist from the University of Sao Paolo, Department of Immunology, Brazil, and is supported by grant 90/1844-4 from the FAPESP

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Punt, C.J.A., Barbuto, J.A.M., Zhang, H. et al. Anti-tumor antibody produced by human tumor-infiltrating and peripheral blood B lymphocytes. Cancer Immunol Immunother 38, 225–232 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01533513

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