Internalization of secreted antigen-targeted antibodies by the neonatal Fc receptor for precision imaging of the androgen receptor axis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Targeting the androgen receptor (AR) pathway prolongs survival in patients with prostate cancer, but resistance rapidly develops. Understanding this resistance is confounded by a lack of noninvasive means to assess AR activity in vivo. We report intracellular accumulation of a secreted antigen-targeted antibody (SATA) that can be used to characterize disease, guide therapy, and monitor response. AR-regulated human kallikrein-related peptidase 2 (free hK2) is a prostate tissue-specific antigen produced in prostate cancer and androgen-stimulated breast cancer cells. Fluorescent and radio conjugates of 11B6, an antibody targeting free hK2, are internalized and noninvasively report AR pathway activity in metastatic and genetically engineered models of cancer development and treatment. Uptake is mediated by a mechanism involving the neonatal Fc receptor. Humanized 11B6, which has undergone toxicological tests in nonhuman primates, has the potential to improve patient management in these cancers. Furthermore, cell-specific SATA uptake may have a broader use for molecularly guided diagnosis and therapy in other cancers.

publication date

  • November 30, 2016

Research

keywords

  • Antibodies
  • Bone Neoplasms
  • Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Receptors, Androgen
  • Receptors, Fc
  • Tissue Kallikreins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5568040

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85002193746

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf2335

PubMed ID

  • 27903863

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 8

issue

  • 367