Novel CD7-specific nanobody-based immunotoxins potently enhanced apoptosis of CD7-positive malignant cells

Various CD7-targeting immunotoxins have been tested for its potential in treating CD7+ malignant patients but none of those immunotoxins was approved clinically because of lacking enough efficacy and safety. Here we successfully constructed the monovalent and bivalent CD7 nanobody-based immunotoxins PG001 and PG002, both conjugated with a truncated derivative of Pseudomonas exotoxin A respectively. The prokaryotic system expressed immunotoxins not only maintained their binding specificity for CD7-positive cells with a Kd of 16.74 nM and 3.6 nM for PG001 and PG002 respectively, but also efficiently promoted antigen-restricted apoptosis of the CD7-positive leukemia cell lines Jurkat and CEM, and primary T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells with an in vitro cytotoxic activity (EC50) in the range of 23-30 pM for PG002. In NOD/SCID mice transplanted with CEM cells, PG001 and PG002 prevented engraftment of the cells and markedly prolonged mouse survival. Owing to the efficient antigen-restricted anti-leukemic activity of PG002, this CD7 nanobody-based immunotoxin exhibited a superior anti-CD7 positive malignancies activity than previously reported immunotoxins, and may represent a promising therapeutic strategy in treating CD7-positive leukemia and lymphoma, which still remain a significant clinical challenge.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

Oncotarget - 7(2016), 23 vom: 07. Juni, Seite 34070-83

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tang, Jinle [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jialu [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Xuejun [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Zhenyang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xingding [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Zhishu [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Pengjun [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Juhua [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Huimin [VerfasserIn]
An, Gangli [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Huyong [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Lin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigens, CD7
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunotoxin
Immunotoxins
Journal Article
Leukemia
Nanobody
Single-Domain Antibodies
Target delivery drug
VHH

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Date Completed 23.01.2018

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/oncotarget.8710

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM259445258