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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 93, Issue 6, Pages 832-840Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.1382
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phage antibody; tumor immunology; colorectal cancer
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Many patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC) mount a cellular as well as a humoral immune response to the tumor. To investigate the nature and specificity of the humoral I a CRC patient, lymphocytes infiltrating the primary colorectal tumor and lymph nodes draining the tumor were used as antibody variable (V)-gene pools for the construction of phage antibody repertoires. These libraries were first validated by selection on the antigen tetanus toxoid and shown to contain antibodies that were probably derived from both naive and memory B cells. The repertoires were then screened for the presence of antibodies directed to CRC by selection on the cell line CaCo2. For comparison, the same selections were performed with a phage antibody repertoire made from B cells of healthy donors. Striking differences were observed in the panel of specificities selected from these different repertoires: although a large panel of antibodies reactive with patient-derived primary tumors was obtained from the immune repertoires, none of these discriminated between normal colonic epithelium and colon cancer and none were reactive with cell-surface antigens. However, selections using the non-immune library did result in numerous antibodies that recognized cell surface markers on CaCo2. These data suggest a bias in the local humoral immune response in this CRC patient, directed primarily toward intracellular epithelial-cell specific target antigens. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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