Journal: Antibodies
Article Title: Novel Humanized Anti-HER3 Antibodies: Structural Characterization and Therapeutic Activity
doi: 10.3390/antib14040084
Figure Lengend Snippet: TK-hu A3 and TK-hu A4 antibodies inhibit NRG-driven HER3 signaling and reduce cancer cell viability. ( A ) Neuregulin competition assay. SK-BR-3 cells were incubated for 1 h at 4 °C with increasing concentrations of TK-hu A3 or TK-hu A4, either in the presence or absence of recombinant neuregulin (NRG). Binding to cell-surface HER3 was assessed by flow cytometry. The plot shows representative binding curves: TK-hu A3 ± NRG (purple and yellow), and TK-hu A4 ± NRG (light green and dark green). The percentage of HER3-positive cells is plotted on the y-axis versus antibody concentration (log10 [µg/mL], x-axis). ( B ) Western blot analysis of HER3 signaling pathway activation in MCF7, FaDu, and BxPC-3 cells. Cells were pretreated for 6 h with increasing concentrations of TK-hu A3 or TK-hu A4 antibodies, then stimulated with NRG. The Control (Ctrl) lane represents untreated, unstimulated cells, while the NRG lane represents NRG-stimulated cells in the absence of antibody. Blots were probed for phosphorylated HER3 (pHER3, Tyr1289), total HER3, phosphorylated Akt (pAkt, Ser473), and phosphorylated p42/44 MAPK (Thr202/Tyr204). β-tubulin served as the loading control. ( C ) Colony-formation assay. BxPC-3 cells were seeded in 6-well plates, treated or not with increasing concentrations of TK-hu A3-H1L1 or TK-hu A4-H3L1 and cultured to allow colony formation; colonies were then fixed, stained, and counted. Only colonies comprising >50 cells were scored as survival colonies. The percentage of inhibition of colony formation (% inh) relative to untreated controls is plotted against the logarithmic antibody concentration (log 10 [µg/mL]), and data are fitted with a four-parametric non-linear regression curve (GraphPad v8.0).
Article Snippet: Membranes were blocked with 5% nonfat dry milk and 0.1% Tween 20 (Merck KGaA) in Tris-buffered saline (TBS), pH 7.4, and incubated overnight at 4 °C with antibodies against phospho HER3-Tyr1289 (code #2842, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA), phospo AKT-Ser473 (code #4060, Cell Signaling Technology), Phospho-p44/42 MAPK (Erk1/2) (Thr202/Tyr204) (code #4377, Cell Signaling Technology), HER3 (code #4754, Cell Signaling Technology, ), AKT (code #4691, Cell Signaling Technology), p44/42 MAPK (Erk1/2) (code #4695, Cell Signaling Technology).
Techniques: Competitive Binding Assay, Incubation, Recombinant, Binding Assay, Flow Cytometry, Concentration Assay, Western Blot, Activation Assay, Control, Colony Assay, Cell Culture, Staining, Inhibition