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. 1996 Jan 23;93(2):799–803. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.2.799

Toward antibody-directed "abzyme" prodrug therapy, ADAPT: carbamate prodrug activation by a catalytic antibody and its in vitro application to human tumor cell killing.

P Wentworth 1, A Datta 1, D Blakey 1, T Boyle 1, L J Partridge 1, G M Blackburn 1
PMCID: PMC40136  PMID: 8570638

Abstract

Antibody-directed enzyme prodrug therapy, ADEPT, is a recent approach to targeted cancer chemotherapy intended to diminish the nonspecific toxicity associated with many commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. Most ADEPT systems incorporate a bacterial enzyme, and thus their potential is reduced because of the immunogenicity of that component of the conjugate. This limitation can be circumvented by the use of a catalytic antibody, which can be "humanized," in place of the bacterial enzyme catalyst. We have explored the scope of such antibody-directed "abzyme" prodrug therapy, ADAPT, to evaluate the potential for a repeatable targeted cancer chemotherapy. We report the production of a catalytic antibody that can hydrolyze the carbamate prodrug 4-[N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)]aminophenyl-N-[(1S)-(1,3- dicarboxy)propyl]carbamate (1) to generate the corresponding cytotoxic nitrogen mustard (Km = 201 microM, kcat = 1.88 min-1). In vitro studies with this abzyme, EA11-D7, and prodrug 1 lead to a marked reduction in viability of cultured human colonic carcinoma (LoVo) cells relative to appropriate controls. In addition, we have found a good correlation between antibody catalysis as determined by this cytotoxicity assay in vitro and competitive binding studies of candidate abzymes to the truncated transition-state analogue ethyl 4-nitrophenylmethylphosphonate. This cell-kill assay heralds a general approach to direct and rapid screening of antibody libraries for catalysts.

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