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(American Journal of Pathology. 1998;153:845-855.)
© 1998 American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Complement-Mediated Killing of Microtumors in Vitro

Juha Hakulinen and Seppo Meri

From the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Complement-mediated lysis of cancer cells growing in three-dimensional aggregates involves factors that are not associated with the killing of cells in suspension. We have used multicellular tumor spheroids established from breast carcinoma (T47D) and ovarian teratocarcinoma (PA-1) cell lines as models to study complement-mediated destruction of micrometastases and small solid tumors. We found that significant killing of microtumors treated with an antitumor antibody and a specific monoclonal antibody (YTH53.1) against the complement lysis inhibitor protectin (CD59) started to occur after a 1 to 2-hour lag phase. After an overnight incubation, the microtumors became totally infiltrated by the YTH53.1 monoclonal antibody and C1q, whereas C3 and C5b-9 penetrated as a frontier to the peripheral cell layers. A 51Cr release assay showed that during a 24-hour pulsed treatment with complement, 33% of cells in the spheroids were killed, and the average tumor volume decreased by 28%. According to propidium iodide staining, complement exposure resulted in killing and peeling off of the outermost tumor cells.




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