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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 119, Issue 8, Pages 2143-2159Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI37884
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- Leukaemia Research, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research, United Kingdom
- Association of International Cancer Research
- Tenovus
- ECMC
- Cancer Research UK [11335] Funding Source: researchfish
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mAbs are becoming increasingly utilized in the treatment of lymphoid disorders. Although Fc-Fc gamma R interactions are thought to account for much of their therapeutic effect, this does not explain why certain mAb specificities are more potent than others. An additional effector mechanism underlying the action of some mAbs is the direct induction of cell death. Previously, we demonstrated that certain CD20-specific mAbs (which we termed type II mAbs) evoke a nonapoptotic mode of cell death that appears to be linked with the induction of homotypic adhesion. Here, we reveal that peripheral relocalization of actin is critical for the adhesion and cell death induced by both the type 11 CD20-specific mAb tositumomab and an HLA-DR-specific mAb in both human lymphoma cell lines and primary chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells. The cell death elicited was rapid, nonapoptotic, nonautophagic, and dependent on the integrity of plasma membrane cholesterol and activation of the V-type ATPase. This cytoplasmic cell death involved lysosomes, which swelled and then dispersed their contents, including cathepsin B, into the cytoplasm and surrounding environment. The resulting loss of plasma membrane integrity occurred independently of caspases and was not controlled by Bcl-2. These experiments provide what we believe to be new insights into the mechanisms by which 2 clinically relevant mAbs elicit cell death and show that this homotypic adhesion-related cell death occurs through a lysosome-dependent pathway.
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