PMID- 23843496 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20131107 LR - 20210202 IS - 1528-0020 (Electronic) IS - 0006-4971 (Linking) VI - 122 IP - 7 DP - 2013 Aug 15 TI - Maternofetal transplacental transport of recombinant IgG antibodies lacking effector functions. PG - 1174-81 LID - 10.1182/blood-2012-12-473843 [doi] AB - The neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) directs the transfer of maternal immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies across the placenta and thus provides the fetus and newborn with passive protective humoral immunity. Pathogenic maternal IgG antibodies will also be delivered via the placenta and can cause alloimmunity, which may be lethal. A novel strategy to control pathogenic antibodies would be administration of a nondestructive IgG antibody blocking antigen binding while retaining binding to FcRn. We report on 2 human IgG3 antibodies with a hinge deletion and a C131S point mutation (IgG3DeltaHinge) that eliminate complement activation and binding to all classical Fcgamma receptors (FcgammaRs) and to C1q while binding to FcRn is retained. Additionally, 1 of the antibodies has a single point mutation in the Fc (R435H) at the binding site for FcRn (IgG3DeltaHinge:R435H). We compared transplacental transport with wild-type IgG1 and IgG3, and found transport across trophoblast-derived BeWo cells and ex vivo placenta perfusions with hierarchies as follows: IgG3DeltaHinge:R435H>wild-type IgG1>/=IgG3DeltaHinge and IgG3DeltaHinge:R435H=wild-type IgG1=wild-type IgG3>>>IgG3DeltaHinge, respectively. Collectively, IgG3DeltaHinge:R435H was transported efficiently from the maternal to the fetal placental compartment. Thus, IgG3DeltaHinge:R435H may be a good candidate for transplacental delivery of a nondestructive antibody to the fetus to combat pathogenic antibodies. FAU - Mathiesen, Line AU - Mathiesen L AD - Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Nielsen, Leif K AU - Nielsen LK FAU - Andersen, Jan Terje AU - Andersen JT FAU - Grevys, Algirdas AU - Grevys A FAU - Sandlie, Inger AU - Sandlie I FAU - Michaelsen, Terje E AU - Michaelsen TE FAU - Hedegaard, Morten AU - Hedegaard M FAU - Knudsen, Lisbeth E AU - Knudsen LE FAU - Dziegiel, Morten Hanefeld AU - Dziegiel MH LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130710 PL - United States TA - Blood JT - Blood JID - 7603509 RN - 0 (Antibodies) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Immunoglobulin G) RN - 0 (Receptors, Fc) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - TW3XAW0RCY (Fc receptor, neonatal) SB - IM MH - Antibodies/*immunology/metabolism MH - Binding Sites MH - Biological Transport MH - Choriocarcinoma/immunology/metabolism/pathology MH - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay MH - Female MH - Fetus/*immunology/metabolism MH - Flow Cytometry MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/*immunology/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Immunoglobulin G/*immunology/metabolism MH - Infant, Newborn MH - Maternal-Fetal Exchange/*immunology MH - Placenta/*immunology/metabolism MH - Pregnancy MH - Receptors, Fc/*immunology/metabolism MH - Recombinant Proteins/*immunology/metabolism MH - Uterine Neoplasms/immunology/metabolism/pathology EDAT- 2013/07/12 06:00 MHDA- 2013/11/08 06:00 CRDT- 2013/07/12 06:00 PHST- 2013/07/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/07/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/11/08 06:00 [medline] AID - S0006-4971(20)54272-9 [pii] AID - 10.1182/blood-2012-12-473843 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Blood. 2013 Aug 15;122(7):1174-81. doi: 10.1182/blood-2012-12-473843. Epub 2013 Jul 10.