Title
A novel pretargeting method for measuring antibody internalization in tumor cells
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Publication Date
2007-04-28
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Acids; Animals; Antibodies; Cell Line, Tumor; Cell Membrane; Drug Delivery Systems; Flow Cytometry; Humans; Mice; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Mice, Nude; Neoplasms; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
A novel pretargeting method has been developed to quantitate antibody cellular internalization. In this study, the antibody was conjugated with a phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (MORF) specific for the complementary MORF (cMORF) as an effector. Half the tumor cells were incubated with the MORF-antibody (pretargeting group) and the other half with the same MORF-antibody at the same concentration but radiolabeled (direct targeting group). After incubation, the same dosage of radiolabeled cMORF was added to the wells of the pretargeting group. The radioactivity of the direct targeting cells represented the sum of both internalized and cell-surface-bound antibodies, whereas the radioactivity of the pretargeting cells resulted only from the surface-bound antibodies, as the radiolabeled cMORF does not penetrate the cell surface. Therefore, the difference in radioactivity accumulation between pretargeting and direct targeting provides the internalized fraction. In this example, the internalization of a MORF conjugated anti-prostate-specific membrane antigen antibody, 3C6, in LNCaP cells was examined, and the average cell-surface residence time was determined as 2 hours. This method of measuring antibody internalization is directly applicable to pretargeting applications but can be a universal alternative to the conventional acid-wash method, with the advantage of leaving the cell membrane undamaged.
DOI of Published Version
10.1089/cbr.2006.339
Source
Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2007 Feb;22(1):33-9. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cancer biotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals
Related Resources
PubMed ID
17461727
Repository Citation
Liu G, Dou S, Yin D, Squires S, Liu X, Wang Y, Rusckowski M, Hnatowich DJ. (2007). A novel pretargeting method for measuring antibody internalization in tumor cells. Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1089/cbr.2006.339. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/1245