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A unique antigen expressed on myeloid cells and acute leukemia blast cells defined by a monoclonal antibody.

Abstract
A murine hybridoma-derived monoclonal antibody, PM-81, was obtained from a fusion of cells of the NS-1 myeloma cell line with cells from a mouse immunized with the HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cell line. This cytotoxic IgM monoclonal antibody was specific for myeloid cells. Employing indirect immunofluorescence and flow cytometry, we determined that this antibody reacts strongly with normal human granulocytes, eosinophils, and monocytes but not lymphocytes (including phytohemagglutinin-activated lymphocytes), null cells, red blood cells, or platelets. Moreover, the PM-81 antibody reacts with leukemia cells from 19 of 22 patients with acute myelocytic leukemia of all FAB subclasses, three of three patients with common acute lymphocytic leukemia, four of four patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML) in myeloid blast crisis (terminal transferase (TdT)-negative) but did not react with cells from two patients with CML in lymphoid blast crisis (TdT-positive) or five patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The myeloid cell lines HL-60, K562, KG-1, and U937 were all reactive with PM-81. The lymphoid lines CCRF-CEM and Daudi did not express PM-81 but HSB-2 was positive. The PM-81 antigen was absent on myeloid and erythroid progenitor cells as determined by their insusceptibility to complement-dependent lysis. In addition, only PM-81-unreactive cells were capable of colony formation. Furthermore, the PM-81 antibody does not appear to induce modulation of the antigen to which it binds. Thus, this monoclonal antibody appears to fulfill several criteria for clinical utility in the diagnosis and treatment of both acute myelocytic and acute lymphocytic leukemia.
AuthorsE D Ball, R F Graziano, M W Fanger
JournalJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) (J Immunol) Vol. 130 Issue 6 Pg. 2937-41 (Jun 1983) ISSN: 0022-1767 [Print] United States
PMID6574189 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antigens, Neoplasm
Topics
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal (immunology)
  • Antigens, Neoplasm (analysis)
  • Binding Sites, Antibody
  • Bone Marrow (immunology)
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic (immunology, metabolism)
  • Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
  • Eosinophils (metabolism)
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells (immunology)
  • Humans
  • Immunologic Capping
  • Leukemia, Lymphoid (metabolism)
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute (immunology, metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Neutrophils (metabolism)
  • Rabbits

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