Fully human anti-interleukin-8 monoclonal antibodies: potential therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory disease states

被引:143
作者
Yang, XD [1 ]
Corvalan, JRF [1 ]
Wang, P [1 ]
Roy, CMN [1 ]
Davis, CG [1 ]
机构
[1] Abgenix Inc, Res Dept, Fremont, CA 94555 USA
关键词
chemokine; neutrophil; IgG2; chemotaxis; psoriasis;
D O I
10.1002/jlb.66.3.401
中图分类号
Q2 [细胞生物学];
学科分类号
071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is a potent chemotactic cytokine implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of inflammatory disease states. Agents that block the binding of IL-8 to its receptor have been shown to block inflammation in animal models of disease. This suggests that drugs specifically targeting IL-8 may prove efficacious in treating multiple human diseases. To this end, we developed a panel of fully human anti-IL-8 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). These human antibodies were generated from XenoMouse(TM) strains, mice created by introducing megabase-size unrearranged human immunoglobulin heavy and kappa light chain loci into a mouse genome in which the corresponding endogenons loci have been inactivated. From the panel of more than 50 mAbs, two antibodies, K4.3 and K2.2, were further characterized and evaluated for their specificity, productivity, affinity, and biological activity. Both K4.3 and K2.2 bind human IL-8 with high affinity (K-d of K4.3 = 2 1 X 10(-10) M; K-d of K2.2 = 2.5 x 10(-10) M). In vitro, in addition to blocking IL-8 binding to human neutrophils, K4.3 and K2.2 blocked a number of IL-8-dependent cellular functions including neutrophil activation, up-regulation of the cell adhesion receptor CD11b/CD18, and neutrophil chemotaxis, suggesting that the fully human anti-IL-8 mAbs derived from XenoMouse strains are potent anti-inflammatory agents. This was further supported by in vivo studies in which K4.3 and K2.2 significantly inhibited IL-8-induced skin inflammation in rabbits, A pharmacokinetic study in Cynomolgus monkeys demonstrated that the alpha phase half-life is 9.4 h and the beta phase 10.9 days, typical of human mAbs in monkeys, These data support advancing a fully human anti-IL-8 mAb into clinical trials to treat inflammatory diseases.
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