PankoMab: a potent new generation anti-tumour MUC1 antibody

Item Type:	Article
Title:	PankoMab: a potent new generation anti-tumour MUC1 antibody
Creators Name:	Danielczyk, A. and Stahn, R. and Faulstich, D. and Loeffler, A. and Maerten, A. and Karsten, U. and Goletz, S.
Abstract:	Recently, we described a new carbohydrate-induced conformational tumour-epitope on mucin-1 (MUC1) with the potential for improvement of immunotherapies [29, 30]. PankoMab is a novel antibody, which binds specifically to this epitope and was designed to show the highest glycosylation dependency and the strongest additive binding effect when compared to other MUC1 antibodies. This enables PankoMab to differentiate between tumour MUC1 and non-tumour MUC1 epitopes. It has a high-affinity towards tumour cells (e.g. KD [M] of 0.9 and 3x10(-9 )towards NM-D4 and ZR75-1, respectively) and detects a very large number of binding sites (e.g. 1.0 and 2.4x10(6 )for NM-D4 and ZR75-1, respectively). PankoMab is rapidly internalised, and after toxin coupling is able to induce very effectively toxin-mediated antigen-specific tumour cell killing. PankoMab reveals a potent tumour-specific antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity (ADCC). PankoMab is, therefore, distinguished by a combination of advantages compared to other MUC1 antibodies in clinical development, including higher tumour specificity, higher affinity, a higher number of binding sites, largely reduced binding to shed MUC1 from colon and pancreatic carcinoma patients, no binding to mononucleated cells from peripheral blood (except approximately 7% of activated T cells), stronger ADCC activity and rapid internalisation as required for toxin-mediated cell killing. This renders it a superior antibody for in vivo diagnostics and various immunotherapeutic approaches.
Keywords:	PankoMab, MUC1, Antibody, Immunotherapy
Source:	Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy
ISSN:	0340-7004
Publisher:	Springer
Volume:	55
Number:	11
Page Range:	1337-1347
Date:	November 2006
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-006-0135-9
PubMed:	View item in PubMed

Repository Staff Only: item control page