Antigen-specific human antibodies from mice comprising four distinct genetic modifications (original) (raw)
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- Lisa D. Taylor1,
- Fiona A. Harding1,
- Mary Trounstine1,
- Kay M. Higgins1,
- Stephen R. Schramm1,
- Chiung-Chi Kuo1,
- Roshanak Mashayekh1,
- Kathryn Wymore1,
- James G. McCabe1,
- Donna Munoz-O'Regan1,
- Susan L. O'Donnell1,
- Elizabeth S. G. Lapachet1,
- Tasha Bengoechea1,
- Dianne M. Fishwild1,
- Condie E. Carmack1,
- Robert M. Kay1 &
- …
- Dennis Huszar1
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Abstract
HUMAN sequence monoclonal antibodies, which in theory combine high specificity with low immunogenicity, represent a class of potential therapeutic agents. But nearly 20 years after Köhler and Milstein first developed methods for obtaining mouse antibodies1, no comparable technology exists for reliably obtaining high-affinity human antibodies directed against selected targets. Thus, rodent antibodies2, and in vitro modified derivatives of rodent antibodies3–5, are still being used and tested in the clinic. The rodent system has certain clear advantages; mice are easy to immunize, are not tolerant to most human antigens, and their B cells form stable hybridoma cell lines. To exploit these advantages, we have developed transgenic mice that express human IgM, IgG and Igκ in the absence of mouse IgM or Igκ. We report here that these mice contain human sequence transgenes that undergo V(D)J joining, heavy-chain class switching, and somatic mutation to generate a repertoire of human sequence immunoglobulins. They are also homozygous for targeted mutations that disrupt V(D)J rearrangement at the endogenous heavy- and κ light-chain loci. We have immunized the mice with human proteins and isolated hybridomas secreting human IgGκ antigen-specific antibodies.
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Nils Lonberg, Lisa D. Taylor, Fiona A. Harding, Mary Trounstine, Kay M. Higgins, Stephen R. Schramm, Chiung-Chi Kuo, Roshanak Mashayekh, Kathryn Wymore, James G. McCabe, Donna Munoz-O'Regan, Susan L. O'Donnell, Elizabeth S. G. Lapachet, Tasha Bengoechea, Dianne M. Fishwild, Condie E. Carmack, Robert M. Kay & Dennis Huszar
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Lonberg, N., Taylor, L., Harding, F. et al. Antigen-specific human antibodies from mice comprising four distinct genetic modifications.Nature 368, 856–859 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/368856a0
- Received: 14 December 1993
- Accepted: 08 April 1994
- Issue Date: 28 April 1994
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/368856a0