J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 31, 15993-15999, 11, 1988

Antibody-mediated routing of diphtheria toxin in murine cells results in a highly efficacious immunotoxin

JW Marsh
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

The chemical coupling of diphtheria toxin to an antimurine Thy1 antibody resulted in the most efficacious immunotoxin to date. At 1 micrograms/ml the immunotoxin inhibited protein synthesis of a Thy+ AKR murine cell at a rate of 1.4 logs/h, within the order of magnitude of the efficacy of native toxins. This is unusual since murine cells are highly resistant to diphtheria toxin. The conjugate is highly specific; Thy- AKR cells display no intoxication at 1 microgram/ml even after 18 h. The effects of ammonia, acid pulsing of external media, and low temperature reveal some similarities and some differences between intoxication of sensitive cells by toxin and of murine cells by the antibody-toxin conjugate. The differences that result in the high efficacy of the antibody-toxin conjugate appear to result from the antibody-mediated routing. These results imply that murine cells possess an acidic compartment which can mediate toxin cytosolic entry. Unlike the Thy antigen, the toxin receptor on murine cells is unable to route the toxin to this cellular site.
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