WO1992015699A1 - High affinity humanized monoclonal antibodies - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to monoclonal antibodies having high affinity, and to their therapeutic use.
- Murine and rat monoclonal antibodies are widely available, but are generally unsuitable for therapeutic use in humans owing to the human antibody response to foreign proteins.
- it has been proposed to "humanise" rodent monoclonals by combining the variable region of the monoclonal with the constant region derived from human immunoglobulin.
- the gene for a chimeric or other antibody of this type can be transfected into and expressed by myeloma cells or any other host cell line.
- the affinity constant (Ka) of a, say, murine monoclonal may be up to 10 . Humanisation will often reduce the Ka value, but the original value may be substantially retained, by careful choice of the materials and experimental conditions. This has been the approach to high affinity monoclonals intended for therapeutic use in humans.
- a monoclonal antibody according to the present invention comprises part at least of the variable region from a monoclonal antibody having a higher affinity than a rodent monoclonal, and part at least of the constant region derived from human immunoglobulin.
- novel heterologous DNA comprises a chimeric gene including variable region DNA encoding part at least of the high-affinity monoclonal antibody heavy and light chains and part at least of constant region human DNA.
- An antibody of the invention may be produced by techniques analogous to those known for the production and humanisation of murine monoclonals.
- the product however, can have much higher affinity.
- the product is predominantly of human origin, such that it can be used satisfactorily in a method of therapy practised on a human, but the relative proportions of human immunoglobulin and high-affinity antibody in the product will depend on the method by which it is prepared.
- a whole antibody comprises heavy and light chains, and constant and variable regions.
- the variable regions comprise a variable framework and hypervariable regions within which the antigen-binding sites are located.
- the invention includes antibody fragments within its scope, e.g. F(ab') 2 , Fab or Fv fragments, provided that at least part thereof is derived from human immunoglobulin.
- a Fv fragment of the invention comprises the hypervariable region from a high-affinity monoclonal antibody, the remainder of the variable region (variable framework) being of human immunoglobulin.
- a "chimeric" whole antibody of the invention comprises the high-affinity antibody variable region and the constant region of human immunoglobulin.
- a higher proportion of human immunoglobulin may be present in a whole antibody, F(ab') 2 or Fab fragment comprising the high-affinity antibody hypervariable region and the constant region and variable framework of human immunoglobulin.
- a single-chain Fv fragment comprises the high-affinity antibody hypervariable region and the variable framework from human immunoglobulin.
- the product is a combination of the high-affinity antibody and human antibody sequences.
- a product of the invention may be prepared by a process involving essentially three steps. Firstly, a suitable animal is immunised using an antigen, and B cells secreting an antibody to that antigen are obtained. Secondly, high-affinity monoclonal antibodies and the genes coding for them are obtained. Thirdly, these antibodies are humanised.
- the animal that is subjected to immunisation is not a rodent, but is chosen to give higher affinity antibodies. Suitable animals are rabbits, cows and, for the purposes of further illustration, sheep. Immunisation of sheep gives good immunogenic response to a variety of antigens. Their size and life-span means that they can be given antigen via a number of routes of administration, and over a longer period, than rodents.
- the high-affinity monoclonal antibody may be obtained by classical hybridoma technology, comprising the fusion of the B cells secreting high-affinity ovine or other antibodies with myeloma cells, and selection of resultant hybridomas.
- the B cells from the relevant species can be plated out, selected and amplified, e.g. by using the polymerase chain reaction; phage recovery may also be used, to obtain mRNA from selected lymphocytes, and thus the antibody genes.
- the monoclonal antibody that is used in the present invention for this purpose of humanisation preferably has an affinity constant of at least 10 12, more preferably at least 5 x 1012, and most preferably at least 10 , e.g up to 10 , 10 1/mol or higher.
- a chimeric whole antibody of the invention comprises the variable region of the former and the constant region of the latter.
- Techniques for producing chimeric whole antibodies are known.
- CDR-grafting may also be used, to produce whole antibodies or fragments of the invention containing a greater proportion of human sequence than chimeric antibodies. Suitable procedures are known.
- Recombinant technology for the purposes of producing an antibody according to the invention, may comprise a first step in which a large number of whole ovine or other antibody molecules are sequenced from the hinge region upwards, e.g. for a range of sheep IgGl's. This may be done either by isolation of mRNA from a number of B cell clones, perhaps using PCR and thus sequencing the DNA, or by sequencing IgGl affinity-purified polyclonal antibodies or a large number of monoclonals, if available.
- the sequences can then be used to define the boundary between the constant, variable and hypervariable regions for both heavy and light chains.
- Structural modelling can then be used, for the purposes of comparison with human and mouse constant regions, to determine how much of the high- affinity monoclonal sequence, i.e. the variable region, to be added to the human constant gene, to give the whole product.
- the hypervariable region may be defined by sequencing various variable region genes for different monoclonals of the same species. These may be compared with the now well-characterised human and mouse variable regions, and in particular the variable framework regions.
- hypervariable sequences Since there can be as much as 50-70% sequence homology between human and mouse variable regions, it is reasonable to expect similarity between sequences from human, sheep and other mammals having a common ancestor at a comparable stage in evolution.
- the definition of the hypervariable sequences then allows the appropriate materials and conditions to be observed for splicing the hypervariable loops from the high-affinity monoclonal into the variable framework regions of the chosen human cassette. It will of course be necessary to retain the correct orientation of the hypervariable loops, to maintain the antigen-binding capability.
- An antibody of the invention may be used in therapy. It is likely to be of particular value in the treatment of cancer, inflammation, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, and septic shock, following organ transplant, in immunomodulation, for passive immunotherapy in the treament of viruses, and to provide antibodies against bacteria.
- the antibody may be formulated into a suitable composition with a physiologically-acceptable excipient, diluent or carrier.
- Particular advantages of high affinity antibodies for therapy are:
- Affinity is related to biological response. The higher the affinity, the better the response is likely to be.
- Higher affinity antibodies will result in more rapid binding of the antibodies to the target cells or more rapid immunoneutralisation. This means that there will be more of the antibodies concentrated at the target sites, directly leading to better localisation of antibody or antibody conjugate, by reducing the non-specific binding to other sites. This is an important consideration in cancer treatment, where binding to the tumour is desired at the expense of binding to other tissues such as kidney, bone marrow and liver.
- Example 1 illustrates the preparation of an ovine monoclonal antibody having high affinity ("Guildhay” refers to Guildhay Antisera, Guildford, United Kingdom) .
- Guidehay refers to Guildhay Antisera, Guildford, United Kingdom
- SFP1 is a sheep heteromyeloma fusion partner derived originally from the NSl cell line. The line secretes neither murine nor ovine immunoglobulins.
- the SFPI cells have been treated with 8-azoguanine or 6-thioguanine, cloned by limiting dilution, and checked for HAT sensitivity. The cell line has not reverted to HAT resistance over a period of 3 years. 1.
- the level of antibody secretion was unknown, possibly sub-nanogram quantities initially.
- the RIA for screening culture supernatant needed to be sensitive and was adapted from a routinely used T3 assay. Briefly, culture supernatants were incubated with iodinated T3 and bound tracer separated using a PEG-second antibody procedure.
- tissue culture supernatant or sheep gamma globulin standards (Sigma) , 1- lOOO ng/ml diluted in tissue culture medium, were added to the wells and incubated for 1 hour at 37°C.
- the plates were washed with PBSGT and 200 ⁇ l horseradish peroxidase- labelled donkey anti-sheep immunoglobulin (Guildhay) was added to the wells. Plates were incubated for 30 min at 37°C and washed with PBSGT.
- lymphocytes for fusion were obtained from the spleen of a sheep which had been repeatedly immunised with T3-BSA conjugates over a period of 15 years, in order to obtain polyclonal antiserum to T3.
- the final boost was 1 week prior to fusion.
- a small area of spleen was teased apart to produce a cell suspension (large clumps of undissociated cells were discarded) .
- the cell suspension was washed and spun twice in RPMI (no FCS or supplements) . No further procedures, i.e. mitogens, enrichments or pre- culture, were performed prior to fusion.
- Parallel fusions were performed using heteromyeloma fusion partner SFPI and murine NS2 myeloma. Fusions were performed in a ratio of 8 spleen to 1 myeloma cell, with a total cell number of 9 x 10 8 in each case, using 1 ml 50% PEG 1500 (BDH) in RPMI over 2 minutes followed by slow dilution with 20 ml RPMI over a further 8 minutes.
- the fusions were plated out as follows:- i. 20% FCS, RPMI, pyruvate (1 mm), glutamine (2 mm), HAT (Gibco) plus mouse spleen feeders. ii.
- FCS 20% FCS, RPMI, pyruvate, glutamine, HAT + no feeders, iii. 10% FCS, 10% sheep serum, pyruvate, glutamine, HAT plus feeders. iv. 10% FCS, 10% sheep serum, pyruvate, glutamine, HAT, no feeders.
- Each fusion was in 3 x 96-well plates of each of the 4 parameters (24 x 96 wells total) .
- penicillin and streptomycin were added to the cultures as the spleen was removed and transported in non-sterile conditions, (transit time approximately 2 hours) .
- 14 days post-fusion HAT was replaced by HT. RESULTS
- Table 2 shows the effect of FCS and lamb serum concentrations on antibody production.
- Other experiments investigating the effects of lamb serum and mixtures of lamb and FCS or FCS alone over 5-20% range on exponentially-growing cultures showed that, after 1 week in culture, levels of T3 binding activity were equal for FCS over the range tested with approximately 85% of available T3 bound (confluent cultures would bind 100%) .
- Over the same range, in lamb serum approximately 45% of T3 was bound whereas the mixture of FCS and lamb serum showed an intermediate 55% binding after l week. After 48 hours growth, it appeared that lamb serum was best for the cell line.
- the association constant K a for the sheep monoclonal antibody 17C6 was found to be 2.6 x 10 L/mol which compares well with 1.39 x 10 L/mol for serum from an early bleed and 2.13 x 10 L/mol from the best polyclonal bleed (4 months prior to fusion) .
- the cross-reactivities of these three antibodies are shown in Table 3. Standard curves for the best clonal antiserum and monoclonal 17C6 were similar. 17C6 was sub-classed using monoclonal ovine IgGl, IgG2, IgA, IgM and light chains on a nitrocellulose-based dot-blot system, and found to be an IgGl.
- the cell line 17C6 is stable in continuous culture. Since the second subclone, there has been no evidence of overgrowth by non-secreting cells or diminution of antibody production. The line has been re-subcloned twice and all resulting subclones on both occasions secreted identical amounts of antibody. The cell line has been successfully frozen, thawed back and continued producing normal amounts of antibody. Attempts to destabilise the line through "stress" have failed, with the line secreting similar levels of antibody in 2.5-20% FCS. Using the batch of FCS in which the fusion was performed, no variation in levels of antibody secretion was detected.
- Example 2 illustrates humanisation of the high affinity monoclonal antibody of Example 1.
- Example 1 The antibody of Example 1 is subjected to humanisation by any of the known techniques described above.
- the product is an antibody embodying the present invention, suitable for administration to humans.
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