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Analysis of in vitro ADCC and clinical response to trastuzumab: possible relevance of Fc?RIIIA/Fc?RIIA gene polymorphisms and HER-2 expression levels on breast cancer cell lines.


ABSTRACT: Trastuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb) currently used for the treatment of breast cancer (BC) patients with HER-2 overexpressing tumor subtype. Previous data reported the involvement of Fc?RIIIA/IIA gene polymorphisms and/or antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in the therapeutic efficacy of trastuzumab, although results on these issues are still controversial. This study was aimed to evaluate in vitro the functional relationships among Fc?RIIIA/IIA polymorphisms, ADCC intensity and HER-2 expression on tumor target cells and to correlate them with response to trastuzumab.Twenty-five patients with HER-2 overexpressing BC, receiving trastuzumab in a neoadjuvant (NEO) or metastatic (MTS) setting, were genotyped for the Fc?RIIIA 158V>F and Fc?RIIA 131H>R polymorphisms by a newly developed pyrosequencing assay and by multiplex Tetra-primer-ARMS PCR, respectively. Trastuzumab-mediated ADCC of patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was evaluated prior to therapy and measured by (51)Chromium release using as targets three human BC cell lines showing different levels of reactivity with trastuzumab.We found that the Fc?RIIIA 158F and/or the Fc?RIIA 131R variants, commonly reported as unfavorable in BC, may actually behave as ADCC favorable genotypes, in both the NEO (P ranging from 0.009 to 0.039 and from 0.007 to 0.047, respectively) and MTS (P ranging from 0.009 to 0.032 and P = 0.034, respectively) patients. The ADCC intensity was affected by different levels of trastuzumab reactivity with BC target cells. In this context, the MCF-7 cell line, showing the lowest reactivity with trastuzumab, resulted the most suitable cell line for evaluating ADCC and response to trastuzumab. Indeed, we found a statistically significant correlation between an increased frequency of patients showing ADCC of MCF-7 and complete response to trastuzumab in the NEO setting (P = 0.006).Although this study was performed in a limited number of patients, it would indicate a correlation of Fc?R gene polymorphisms to the ADCC extent in combination with the HER-2 expression levels on tumor target cells in BC patients. However, to confirm our findings further experimental evidences obtained from a larger cohort of BC patients are mandatory.

SUBMITTER: Boero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4598965 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Analysis of in vitro ADCC and clinical response to trastuzumab: possible relevance of FcγRIIIA/FcγRIIA gene polymorphisms and HER-2 expression levels on breast cancer cell lines.

Boero Silvia S   Morabito Anna A   Banelli Barbara B   Cardinali Barbara B   Dozin Beatrice B   Lunardi Gianluigi G   Piccioli Patrizia P   Lastraioli Sonia S   Carosio Roberta R   Salvi Sandra S   Levaggi Alessia A   Poggio Francesca F   D'Alonzo Alessia A   Romani Massimo M   Del Mastro Lucia L   Poggi Alessandro A   Pistillo Maria Pia MP  

Journal of translational medicine 20151008


<h4>Background</h4>Trastuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb) currently used for the treatment of breast cancer (BC) patients with HER-2 overexpressing tumor subtype. Previous data reported the involvement of FcγRIIIA/IIA gene polymorphisms and/or antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in the therapeutic efficacy of trastuzumab, although results on these issues are still controversial. This study was aimed to evaluate in vitro the functional relationships among FcγRIIIA/IIA po  ...[more]

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