Patent Application: US-46257195-A

Abstract:
disclosed is a method of inhibiting the binding of a cell bearing a cell adhesion protein to a molecule or cell bearing a carbohydrate determinant specific for the cell adhesion molecule . the method involves contacting the cell adhesion protein - bearing cell with an inhibitor molecule bearing the carbohydrate determinant . also disclosed is a method of inhibiting the binding of the first member of a specific binding pair to the second member of the specific binding pair , involving contacting the first member with an antibody which is specific for the first member and which is covalently bonded to a carbohydrate moiety which interferes with the antibody &# 39 ; s ability to fix complement and bind an f c receptor . the methods of the invention may be used , for example , to reduce inflammation .

Description:
fig1 shows the nucleic acid sequence ( seq id no : 1 ) and amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 5 ) of igg1 and amino acid mutations ( seq id no : 2 ) designed to create n - linked glycan addition sites . fig2 is a graph showing the binding capability of α - elam - 1 antibodies to a series of elam - 1 sub - fragments and elam - 1 fusion proteins ; fig3 is a representation of the domain structure of an elam - 1 - igg1 fusion protein ; fig4 is a graph showing the degree of binding of a series of mammalian cell lines to an elam - 1 - igg1 fusion protein ; fig5 is a graph showing the degree of binding of a series of mammalian cell lines to antibodies directed against the cell surface molecules , cd15 , cd63 , or sialyl - le x ; fig6 is a graph showing binding of neuraminidase - treated myeloid cells to elam - 1 or to α - cd15 antibody ; fig7 is a graph showing inhibition of elam - 1 - bearing cell adhesion by α - sialyl - le x antibody ; fig8 is a graph showing the effect of amniotic fluid - derived sialyl - le x determinant on binding of myeloid cells to elam - 1 ; fig9 is a graph showing the ability of in vitro - fucosylated α 1 - acid glycoprotein to bind elam - 1 ; fig1 is a graph showing the effect of il - 1 and il - 8 on cell surface expression of sialyl - le x ; and fig1 is a graph showing the effect of il - 1 and il - 8 on the adhesion of myeloid cells to elam - 1 . in one embodiment , the invention features an antibody bearing one or more carbohydrate side chains which mask the ch2 portion of the immunoglobulin molecule and thus inhibit complement fixation and f c receptor binding . such antibodies are useful for disrupting undesirable interactions between cells or proteins , or , generally , for disrupting an interaction between any two molecules , one of which bears a determinant specifically recognized by an antibody . because the carbohydrate moieties block the immunoglobulin domain which triggers complement fixation and f c receptor binding , such antibodies do not elicit the undesirable side effects ( i . e ., those resulting from complement fixation and f c receptor binding ) frequently associated with antibody - based therapies . preferably , the carbohydrate groups serve not only to inhibit undesirable complement fixation and f c receptor binding , but also perform the function of competitively inhibiting a carbohydrate ligand - cell adhesion protein interaction . where the carbohydrate groups perform this function , the antibody generally does not serve any function arising from its specificity , but serves only as a carrier for the carbohydrate groups . there is described below such a molecule , in which the carbohydrate side chain includes the sialyl - le x determinant . sialyl - le x normally acts to facilitate interaction between cells which bear it ( e . g ., neutrophils ) and cells which bear the protein , elam - 1 ( e . g ., endothelial cells , e . g ., those lining the blood vessel walls ). disrupting this interaction has therapeutic applications , for example , in minimizing inflammation , such as that which occurs following tissue injury , e . g ., myocardial infarction , or which is characteristic of diseases such as psoriasis or rheumatoid arthritis . the igg1 molecule , in its nascent form , bears no sialyl - le x side chains . because n - linked glycan addition sites are well known to be : n x s / t ( where n is asparagine , s is serine , t is threonine , and x is any amino acid except proline ), we designed a molecule including several such sites for attachment of sialyl - le x side chains . inspection of the igg1 sequence ( fig1 ) reveals at least five sites at which n - linked glycan addition sites may be introduced into the molecule in advantageous locations , where complement fixing and f c receptor binding ability will be impaired by the process . these sites ( i . e ., beginning at amino acid residues 274 , 287 , 295 , 322 , and 335 ), although they are preferred sites of n - linked glycan addition are not the only candidates ; other useful sites may be identified and incorporated into the igg1 sequence using , as guidance , the following criteria : ( 1 ) the sites are , preferably , located in the ch2 region of the immunoglobulin molecule , i . e ., in the portion of the molecule responsible for complement fixation and f c receptor binding ; ( 2 ) the sites are located in regions of the sequence , predicted by their hydrophilic nature , to be present on the outside of the immunoglobulin molecule and therefore accessible to the enzymes responsible for attachment of carbohydrate side chains ; ( 3 ) the sites are located in a region which is minimally disruptive to the primary amino acid sequence and , thus , the predicted secondary amino acid structure . for example , a naturally - occurring site which differs from an n - linked glycan addition site by a single amino acid would be preferable to a site requiring two alterations in the amino acid sequence . moreover , it is preferable to create an n - linked glycan addition site by subsituting amino acids of similar charge or polarity ( e . g ., substitution of one uncharged amino acid for another ). one or more n - linked glycan addition site substitutions may be engineered into the igg1 - encoding sequence ; such sequences ( i . e ., those which encode an antibody molecule to which sialyl - le x moieties are attached ) are termed igg1 - sialyl - le x or igg1 - le x . a particular igg1 molecule bearing sialyl - le x moieties is produced as follows . the igg1 gene is publically available , and its sequence is shown in fig1 ( seq . id no : 1 , seq . id no . : 5 ). the gene is mutagenized by standard methods of in vitro site - directed mutagenesis in order to introduce one or more n - linked glycan addition sites ( e . g ., those described above and shown above the naturally - occurring sequence in fig1 ; seq id no . : 2 ). the gene is then inserted into a vector designed to express the protein in a eukaryotic cell ( see , e . g ., those vectors described in gillies et al ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 663 , 281 , hereby incorporated by reference ). the eukaryotic host cell is preferably a mammalian cell ( e . g ., a cho or lec11 cell ), and the expression vector containing the mutated igg1 - le x - encoding sequence is introduced into the host cell by transient or stable transfection using standard techniques . such host cells are also transfected ( transiently or stably ) with a vector capable of expressing an α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase capable of attaching the sialyl - le x groups to the antibody molecule at the glycosylation sites . the α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase gene may be expressed from a vector distinct from that encoding igg1 - le x , or both genes may be carried on , and expressed from , a common vector . mammalian cells are particularly useful hosts for the synthesis of igg1 - le x because they provide all required precursors for sialyl - le x production . an α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase cdna is described in lowe et al . ( cell 63 : 475 , 1990 ). the α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase enzyme , encoded by this cdna , recognizes a sialylated precursor molecule and adds either an α ( 1 , 3 )- or an α ( 1 , 4 )- linked fucose moiety to n - acetylglucosamine side chains . the sialyl - le x determinant is characterized by an α ( 1 , 3 )- linkage , and , as such , the α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase enzyme of lowe ( supra ) produces both the desired sialyl - le x - modified molecules and products bearing α ( 1 , 4 )- linked fucose which , although not active in binding to elam - 1 , do not interfere with the action of the sialyl - le x - modified molecules nor produce other undesirable side effects . production of igg1 - sialyl - le x would be more efficient , however , if an α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase was utilized which exclusively catalyzed α ( 1 , 3 ) fucose linkages . such a mammalian enzyme exists , and the cdna therefor can be isolated as follows . a cdna library , prepared from mrna which is isolated from a myeloid cell line ( e . g ., hl - 60 ), is inserted into a mammalian cell expression vector such as πh3m ( see , simmons et al ., nature 331 : 624 , 1988 ; aruffo and seed , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 8573 , 1987 ) and transfected into a mammalian cell line , preferably , cos7 cells ( as described in seed and arruffo , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 3365 , 1987 ). the proper cdna clone is isolated by the immunoselection procedure described in aruffo and seed , supra ; seed and aruffo , supra ; and u . s . pat . application ser . no . 379 , 076 , hereby incorporated by reference . transfected cells are harvested and incubated with monoclonal antibodies pm - 81 ( anti - cd15 ; medarex , west lebanon , n . h . ), fmc13 ( anti - cd15 ; sera - lab / accurate chemical and scientific , westbury , n . y . ), mc - 1 ( anti - cd15 ; sera - lab . westbury , n . y .) and vim8 ( anti - cd65 ). following incubation ( e . g ., for 1 hour ), cells are separated from free antibody by centrifugation through a cushion of 2 % ficoll in pbs and allowed to settle on plastic dishes coated with affinity - purified goat antibodies to mouse igm ( as described below ). adherent cells are collected and a hirt supernatant containing episomal dna is prepared . the purified hirt supernantant dna is transformed ( e . g ., by electroporation ) into e . coli ( preferably , e . coli mc1061 / p3 ) by standard techniques and ampicillin - and tetracycline - resistant colonies selected by standard methods . antibiotic resistant colonies are then pooled and the plasmids amplified ( e . g ., following addition of spectinomycin hydrochloride overnight ). the resulting culture is converted to spheroplasts and the spheroplasts fused to cos7 cells by standard procedures ( see , for example , seed and aruffo , supra ). cells are allowed to incubate ( preferably , 2 to 3 days ) and are exposed to antibodies as described above . preferably , two rounds of spheroplast fusion and &# 34 ; panning &# 34 ; ( i . e ., the procedure described above ) are performed , and the bacterial cells resulting from the last round of panning are collected , and their plasmid dna prepared . this cdna encodes an enzyme , i . e ., an α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase , which directs the appearance of the desired cd15 and cd65 determinants , i . e ., the sialyl - le x determinant . host cells expressing α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase and igg1 - le x ( and thus producing an igg1 molecule bearing sialyl - le x determinants ) are grown by standard methods and the igg1 - le x protein is purified from a cell lysate based on its affinity for a protein a column or any other standard technique of antibody isolation and purification . for administering such a compound to a patient , the pharmaceutically - pure igg1 - le x is suspended in an acceptable carrier , e . g ., physiological saline , and is delivered to patients intravenously in a single or in multiple doses . optimally , a sufficient quantity of igg1 - le x is provided to saturate all elam - 1 - binding sites on an endothelial cell . typically , this may be achieved with doses of 0 . 1 mg / kg or greater . the preferred dosage is in the range of 0 . 1 - 2 . 0 mg / kg . other carrier molecules , for example sialyl - le x - modified α 1 - acid glycoprotein ( α 1 - agp - le x , described below ) would be produced generally as described herein and would be administered intravenously to patients as described above ( i . e ., preferably , at a dose sufficient to saturate all cellular elam - 1 binding sites , e . g ., at 0 . 1 mg / kg or greater ). igg1 - sialyl - le x or α 1 - agp - sialyl - le x may be used , in one example , for the treatment of a pateint suffering from a heart attack . following such a trauma , the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels express elam - 1 on their surfaces and , without treatment , neutrophils , bearing sialyl - le x on their surfaces , bind such elam - 1 - bearing endothelial cells , contributing to inflammation . treatment with a sialyl - le x - bearing molecule would attenuate the inflammation by competitively inhibiting the interaction between the invading neutrophils and the blood vessel endothelial cells in the vicinity of the heart . compounds such as igg1 - sialyl - le x or α 1 - agp - sialyl - le x may also be used , as described above , for the treatment of diseases characterized by chronic inflammatory conditions , e . g ., rheumatoid arthritis , psoriasis , or pemphigus vulgaris . sialyl - lewis x ( sialyl - le x ) determinants were shown to interact with elam - 1 and facilitate binding to elam - 1 - bearing endothelial cells by the following experiments . these examples are presented to illustrate , not limit , the invention . the elam - 1 domains necessary for granulocyte - binding activity were localized using two monoclonal anti - elam - 1 antibodies : h18 / 7 , which effectively blocks leukocyte adhesion to activated endothelium , and h4 / 18 , which does not ( pober et al ., j . immunol . 136 : 1680 , 1986 ; bevilacqua et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 9238 , 1987 ). full length elam - 1 was expressed from the cdna carried on plasmid , pelam - 1 ( bevilacqua et al ., science 243 : 1160 , 1989 ). carboxyl terminal deletions of the elam - 1 cdna were created by polymerase chain reaction to produce the proteins shown in fig2 . primer sequences for the pcr deletions were designed based on the full - length elam - 1 sequence of bevilacqua et al . ( science 243 : 1160 , 1989 ). once generated , elam - 1 cdna fragments were then fused , by standard techniques , to the transmembrane and intracellular coding portions of a cd7 cdna ( i . e ., nucleotides 501 to 1236 of the cd7 cdna described in aruffo and seed , embo . j . 6 : 3313 , 1987 ). plasmids bearing the resulting fusions were transfected into cos cells . reactivity to monoclonal antibodies was determined by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy of fixed , permeabilized cells by the method of aruffo et al ., cell 61 : 1303 , 1990 . the results of this analysis are shown in fig2 and are representative of transfections of three to six independent isolates of the constructs shown . fig2 indicates that h18 / 7 binding required the lectin - related segment plus the egf - repeat domains , while h4 / 18 reactivity required , in addition , the first three complement regulatory protein repeat elements . l indicates the lectin - related segment ; egf indicates the egf - related repeat segment ; and cr1 - cr6 indicate complement regulatory protein elements . to further define the binding site for h18 / 7 , a fragment was exchanged between the elam - 1 cdna and the equivalent fragment of the related leu8 ( leccam - 1 ) cdna ( described in camerini et al ., nature 342 : 78 , 1989 ). leu8 ( leccam - 1 )/ elam - 1 chimeras were created by restriction fragment interchange from a conserved bglii site within the lectin domain ( i . e ., at nucleotide 454 and 475 of the elam - 1 and leu8 cdna sequences , respectively ). as shown in fig2 h18 / 7 bound to an antigenic determinant located principally in the first 75 % of the elam - 1 lectin domain . together with the above result ( i . e ., that both the lectin - like and egf - repeat - like domains were required for h18 / 7 binding to truncated elam - 1 ) suggests that the egf - related repeat element may play a role in shaping the structure of the lectin domain . to study the possible lectin - carbohydrate interactions suggested by the epitope mapping , a soluble elam - 1 protein chimera was prepared by the fusion of a cdna fragment encoding the elam - 1 extracellular domain to a genomic fragment encoding the hinge , i . e ., the ch2 and ch3 domains , of human igg1 ( aruffo et al ., cell 61 : 1303 , 1990 ; fig3 ). the elam - 1 - igg1 chimera was prepared as follows . synthetic oligonucleotides having the sequence : cggaattccagtactactcacctggtccgccgatggtctccgggc ( seq . id no . : 3 ) and ccagatatacgcgttgacattgattattgactagttatt ( seq . id no . : 4 ), and corresponding to the splice donor / carboxyl terminus of elam - 1 and to a location in the vector upstream of the inserted cdna , respectively , were prepared by standard techniques . polymerase chain reaction with these oligonucleotides and the elam - 1 cdna expression plasmid , pelam - 1 , as template , yielded an 1800 bp fragment which was digested with xhoi and ecori and subcloned into xhoi / ecori - digested expression vector πh3m ( aruffo and seed , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 8573 , 1987 ). the subcloned fragment was released by digestion with xhoi and scai and ligated to the xhoi / scai - digested igg1 expression plasmid described in aruffo et al . cell 61 : 1303 , 1990 . the resulting construct was transfected into cos cells ( as described in seed and aruffo , proc . natl . acad . sci 84 : 3365 , 1987 ), and the desired fusion protein , termed elam - rg , was recovered from the supernatant by adsorption to and elution from protein a - agarose as described in aruffo et al . ( cell 61 : 1303 , 1990 ). the initial construct , and a subsequent version in which the majority of the pcr - amplified segment ( i . e ., nucleotides 1 to 1464 of the elam - 1 sequence ) was replaced by a homologous restriction fragment interchange ( to avoid potential mutations introduced during amplification ) showed identical , binding activity . the soluble protein appeared in the form of disulfide - linked dimers , presumably mediated by the hinge region cysteine residues responsible for the inter - heavy chain linkage of active immunoglobulins . to determine whether myeloid cells bound soluble elam - 1 , plastic dishes precoated with goat - anti - human igg antibodies , were incubated with supernatants expressing elam - rg . these experiments were carried out as follows . human granulocytes were isolated from freshly drawn , heparinized whole blood by centrifugation through ficoll / sodium diatrizoate ( mono - poly resolving medium , flow laboratories , mclean , va .) for 20 min . at 800 × g . cell lines were obtained from the american type culture collection ( atcc ) and were maintained in imdm with 10 % fetal bovine serum as described in aruffo and seed ( proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 8573 , 1987 ). adhesion to elam - rg was carried out in bacterial culture dishes ( falcon 1008 , becton - dickinson labware , lincoln park , n . j .) to which affinity - purified goat anti - human igg antibody ( organon teknika / cappel , malverne pa .) had been allowed to adsorb at 10 μg / ml in 50 mm tris -- hcl , ph 9 . 5 for at least one hour . remaining protein binding sites were then blocked by overnight incubation with 1 mg / ml bovine serum albumin in phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ; 137 mm nacl , 2 . 7 mm kcl , 4 . 3 mm na 2 hpo 4 · 7h 2 o , 1 . 4 mm kh 2 po 4 , ph 7 . 3 ). dishes were incubated with elam - rg (≈ 1 μg / ml ) for 30 min . at 22 °, washed with pbs , overlaid with cells ( 10 6 cells ) for 10 min . at 22 °, and washed three times with pbs . the adherent cells per unit area of dish were enumerated with the aid of an ocular reticle and scored as follows : & gt ; 100 cells , +++++; 100 - 75 cells , ++++; 75 - 50 cells , +++; 50 - 25 cells , ++; and 25 - 10 cells , +. all values represented the average of triplicate determinations . the treated plastic acquired the ability to specifically bind granulocytes as well as the myeloid cell lines hl60 and thp1 ( fig4 ). other cell lines of both hematopoietic origin ( i . e ., u937 and hsb - 2 ) and nonhematopoietic origin ( i . e ., widr ) were found to bind to the elam - 1 coated plastic as well ( fig4 ). dishes coated with cd8 fusion protein ( aruffo et al ., cell 61 : 1303 , 1990 ) showed negligible affinity ( for granulocytes or any of the cell lines tested ( bevilacqua et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 9238 , 1987 ). to correlate the binding activity with surface phenotype , various monoclonal antibodies recognizing known granulocyte carbohydrate antigens were screened for reactivity with the above cell types . 5 × 10 5 cells were incubated with the following antibodies ( as ascites at 1 : 250 dilution , or as purified antibody at 4 μg / ml ): pm - 81 ( anti - cd15 ; medarex , w . lebanon , n . h . ; ball et al ., j . immunol . 130 : 2937 , 1983 ), cslex - 1 ( anti - sialyl - le x ; fukushima et al ., cancer res . 44 : 5279 , 1984 ); or vim2 ( anti - cd65 ; macher et al ., j . biol . chem . 263 : 10186 , 1988 ), followed by a fluorescein - conjugated goat anti - mouse igg + iga + igm antibody ( organon teknika / cappel , malverne , pa .). results are shown in fig5 . sparse dots represent the negative control ( no primary antibody ); dense dots , anti - cd15 mab ; solid line , anti - cd63 mab ; and broken line , anti - sialyl - le x mab . the u937 line used herein lacked sialyl - le x determinants , unlike the related u937 cell line tested by terasaki and coworkers ( fukushima et al ., cancer res . 44 : 5279 , 1984 ). an initial survey showed that elam - 1 adhesion potential correlated with the presence of the cd15 determinant ( i . e ., le x , or lacto - n - fucopentaose iii ; gooi et al ., nature 292 : 156 , 1981 ; huang et al ., blood 61 : 1020 , 1983 ; magnan et al ., arch . biochem . biophys . 233 ; 501 , 1984 ; gooi et al ., eur . j . immunol . 13 : 306 , 1983 ; tetteroo et al ., eur . j . immunol . 14 : 1089 , 1984 ), but not with the determinants associated with cd17 ( lactosyl ceramide ; symington et al ., j . biol . chem . 259 : 6008 , 1984 ), cd65 ( vi 3 neuaciii 3 fucnorlcnose 6 cer ; macher et al ., j . biol . chem . 263 : 10186 , 1988 ) or sulfatides ( fredman et al ., biochem . j . 251 : 17 , 1988 ). to further test the correlation between elam - 1 adhesion potential and the presence of cd15 , cells bearing cd15 were treated with neuraminidase , an enzyme known to cleave terminal sialyl groups . hl60 cells ( 10 6 / plate ) were incubated in 50 μl of 0 . 15m nacl , 4mm cacl 2 , ph 5 . 5 , for 1 hr . at 37 ° in the presence or absence of 41 . 5 mu of neuraminidase ( from vibrio cholerae , type ii , sigma , st . louis , mo .). cells were washed three times with pbs and adherence to either elam - rg - or pm - 81 - coated dishes was scored as described above . dishes were coated with elam - rg as described above , and with purified pm - 81 antibody at 10 μg / ml in 50 mm tris - hcl ph 9 . 5 . adherence assays were carried out as described above . results shown in fig6 are expressed as percent of control and were calculated from the mean ± standard deviation for the average of triplicate determinations in three independent experiments . fig6 indicates that the correlation of elam - 1 adhesion potential with the presence of cd15 was imperfect because digestion of the cells with neuraminidase abolished binding to elam - 1 but increased binding to immobilized anti - cd15 antibodies . association with cd15 and sensitivity to neuraminidase suggested that the sialylated form of the cd15 carbohydrate antigen might represent the physiological elam - 1 ligand . to test this idea , cslex1 monoclonal antibody was assayed for its ability to inhibit adhesion of hl60 cells to elam - rg . 10 6 hl60 cells were incubated with cslex1 ( 1 : 50 in pbs ) for 30 min . on ice , then crosslinked with affinity purified goat anti - mouse igm antibody ( organon teknika / cappel , malverne , pa .) at 20 μg / ml in pbs for 30 min ., and fixed with 2 % formaldehyde in pbs for 20 min . at 22 °. cells were washed three times in pbs / 1 % glycine and incubated with elam - 1 - rg - coated dishes as described above . the data ( presented as percent of control ) in fig7 represents the mean ± standard deviation of triplicate determinations in three independent experiments . fig7 indicates that there exists a very good correspondence between the surface density of sialyl - le x and the rank order of the number of cells bound per unit area of elam - rg coated plastic . in addition , anti - sialyl - le x antibody completely inhibited adhesion of myeloid cells to elam - 1 , whereas anti - cd65 and anti - cd15 antibodies had no activity under identical conditions . the carbohydrate epitope recognized by the cslex1 antibody has been reported to be neunacα2 - 3galβ1 - 4 ( fucα1 - 3 ) glcnacβ1 - 3gal , based on motifs common to structurally characterized glycolipids with which the antibody reacts ( fukushima et al ., cancer res . 44 : 5279 , 1984 ). chemical analysis of the fucosylated lactosaminoglycans of neutrophilic granulocytes has shown that both the le x ( cd15 ) and sialyl - le x determinants are predominantly represented on tetraantennary asparagine - linked glycans whose individual strands are built up from poly ( n - acetyllactosamine ) chains bearing variable α ( 1 , 3 )- linked fucose substitutions ( fukuda et al ., j . biol . chem . 259 : 10925 , 1984 ; spooncer et al ., j . biol . chem . 259 : 4792 , 1984 ). serological evidence supports the existence of the sialyl dimeric le x determinant on granulocytes as well ( fukushi et al ., j . biol . chem . 259 : 10511 , 1984 ; fukushi et al ., cancer res . 45 : 3711 , 1985 ). as such , the residue on the reducing side of the sialyl - le x group is galactose in all of the granulocyte structures thus far identified . although antibody cslex1 blocks binding , the structure recognized by elam - 1 might be more complex than the structure recognized by cslex1 . to establish the minimum glycan structure for elam - 1 binding , chemically - characterized glycans bearing sialyl - le x determinants were evaluated for elam - 1 recognition . amniotic fluid is one source of well defined sialyl - le x determinant which is found in a very different context than the granulocyte cell surface . the sialyl - le x - bearing carbohydrate of amniotic mucins is joined β1 - 6 to a 3 - substituted n - acetylgalactosamine , which in turn is attached directly to the polypeptide backbone through o - linkage to serine or threonine ( hanisch et al ., carbohydr . res . 178 : 29 , 1988 ). amniotic fluid - derived sialyl - le x determinants were tested for their ability to block binding of myeloid cells to immobilized elam - 1 . human amniotic fluid ( haf ) was either used without purification , fractionated by centrifugal ultrafiltration ( 100 kdal nominal cutoff ; centricon 100 , amicon , danvers mass . ), or fractionated , following phenol extraction , by size exclusion chromatography ( sephacryl s - 300 hr ) in 4m guanidinium chloride ( by the method of hanisch et al ., carbohydr . res . 178 : 29 , 1988 ) to yield purified mucins . such mucins were used at a protein concentration of approximately 150 μg / ml . binding to elam - rg coated plastic was performed as described above . results ( expressed as percent of control ) shown in fig8 are the average of triplicate determinations in two independent experiments . fig8 indicates that , despite the dissimilarity between the granulocyte glycans and the amniotic fluid mucins , purified amniotic fluid mucins , as well as unfractionated amniotic fluid ( which appears to contain all of its activity in the mucin - rich high molecular weight fraction ), efficiently blocked binding of myeloid cells to immobilized elam - 1 . another source of sialyl - le x determinants is fucosylated α 1 - acid glycoprotein ( α 1 - agp ) ( biou et al ., biochim . biophys . acta . 913 : 308 , 1987 ; wieruszeski et al ., febs lett . 238 : 390 , 1988 ). chemical analysis of human α 1 - agp has shown that fucose is present on a minor fraction of n - linked glycans ( schmid et al ., biochim . biophys . acta . 492 : 291 , 1977 ; fournet et al ., biochemistry 17 : 5206 , 1978 ), but that the asialo protein at least partially blocks the binding of anti - cd15 antibodies ( gooi et al ., eur . j . immunol . 13 : 306 , 1983 ; tetteroo et al ., eur . j . immunol . 14 : 1089 , 1984 ). a modest ( 35 ± 9 %) reduction in binding of hl60 cells to elam - 1 ( adsorbed to plastic ) was achieved with 200 μg / ml of the protein . to extend these results , enzymatically - fucosylated α 1 - agp was prepared in vitro . the biosynthesis of the sialyl - le x determinant is controlled by a specific α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase ( campbell et al ., cell 35 : 303 , 1983 ; campbell et al ., j . biol . chem . 259 : 11208 , 1984 ), which adds fucose to the n - acetylglucosamine moiety of terminal n - acetyllactosamine or its 3 - sialyl adduct ; a genetically and biochemically distinct specific α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase is known to only add fucose to the asialyl precursor ( prieels et al ., eur . j . biochem . 130 : 347 , 1983 ; muramatsu et al ., eur . j . biochem . 157 : 71 , 1986 ). a third fucosyltransferase is known to form both α ( 1 , 3 ) and a α ( 1 , 4 ) linkages , apparently to unsialylated substrates ( prieels et al ., j . biol . chem . 256 : 10456 , 1981 ; lowe et al ., infra ). biosynthesis of the sialyl - le x determinant proceeds by sequential sialylation followed by fucosylation because α ( 2 , 3 ) sialytransferase cannot recognize the fucosylated terminal n - acetyllactosamine that is cd15 ( holmes et al ., j . biol . chem . 261 : 3737 , 1986 ). α 1 - acid glycoprotein is a good substrate for the α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase of amniotic fluid ( e . g ., hanisch et al ., carbohydr . res . 178 : 23 , 1988 ), an enzyme which forms sialyl - le x from sialylated and nonsialylated precursors , respectively . amniotic fluid fucosyltransferase was isolated by affinity chromatography and evaluated for its ability to convert α 1 - agp into an elam - 1 ligand as follows . α ( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase was isolated from concentrated amniotic fluid by fetuin - agarose chromatography as previously described in hanisch et al . ( carbohydr . res . 178 : 23 , 1988 ) and mitsakos et al . ( biol . chem . hoppe - seyler 369 : 661 , 1988 ). 0 . 8 μci gdp 14 c - fucose ( 225 ci / mole ) and 100 μg of bovine α 1 - agp ( sigma , st . louis , mo .) were added to a reaction mix containing 25 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 0 , 35 mm mgcl 2 and 1 mm atp in a final volume of 120 μl . the reaction was allowed to proceed for 24 h . at 37 °, at which time approximately 10 % of the 14 c - labeled fucose had been incorporated into tca - insoluble material . unincorporated label was removed by centrifugal ultrafiltration ( centricon 10 , amicon , danvers , mass .). 20 μl of a 1 : 5 dilution of the labelled material , or 10 μl of a 1 : 5 dilution of a similarly constituted reaction mixture lacking labelled gdp - fucose , was adsorbed to plastic dishes ( as described above ) or to 96 well microtiter plates ( falcon 3911 , becton dickinson , oxnard , calif .). wells were incubated at 22 ° with elam - rg or cd8 - rg at 1 μg / ml for 1 hr ., washed with pbs , and incubated with a radioiodinated goat anti - human igg antibody ( dupont / nen , boston , mass .) for an additional hr . following washing , labelled antibody binding was measured in a gamma counter . results shown in fig9 are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation of quadruplicate determinations and are representative of two independent experiments . fig9 shows that α 1 - agp incubated with fucosyltransferase in the presence of gdp - fucose bound significantly more elam - rg than did α 1 - agp alone , or α 1 - agp incubated with enzyme in the absence of gdp - fucose . the fucosylated glycans of asialo - α - agp bear the terminal structure galβ ( 1 - 4 )-( fucα ( 1 - 3 )) glcnacβ ( 1 - 4 ) man , while the nonfucosylated termini of the asialoprotein consist of the n - acetyllactosamine group joined either β ( 1 - 4 ), β ( 1 - 2 ), or α ( 1 - 6 ) to mannose ( fournet et al ., biochemistry 17 : 5206 , 1978 ). hence neither any pre - existing sialyl - le x determinants of α 1 - agp nor any of the potential fucosyl adducts to n - acetylglucosamine can be joined to galactose . these results , together with the inhibition of elam - 1 binding by mucin o - linked glycans , indicate that the sialyl - le x grouping by itself has appreciable affinity for elam - 1 . it remains to be determined , though , whether quantitatively stronger elam - 1 binding might be promoted by residues neighboring the sialyl - le x determinants on granulocytes or by steric factors affecting their accessibility . it has been reported that the release of il - 8 from il - 1 - treated endothelial cells causes granulocytes to lose the ability to bind to il - 1 induced endothelium ( gimbrone et al ., science 246 : 1601 , 1989 ). the effect of il - 1 and il - 8 on sialyl - le x surface antigen expression was determined as follows . granulocytes were incubated with il - 1β ( 10 ng / ml ; pepro tech , rock hill , n . j .) or il - 8 ( 25 ng / ml ; pepro tech , rock hill , n . j .) for 20 min . at 37 °, washed three times , and incubated with a monoclonal antibody to either cd15 ( pm - 81 ), cd65 ( vim2 ) or sialyl - le x ( cslex1 ) ( described above ) on ice . results in fig1 are given as the relative mean fluorescence intensity ( mfi ) determined by flow cytometry , as a percent of the mfi of granulocytes incubated in parallel without cytokines , and are representative of four experiments . fig1 shows that neither il - 1 nor il - 8 caused a substantial reduction in the expression of cell surface sialyl - le x . to test the ability of supernatants harvested from granulocytes exposed to il - 8 to block binding to elam - 1 , granulocytes ( 5 × 10 7 / ml ) were incubated with il - 1 or il - 8 ( at the concentrations above ) for 1 hr . at 37 °. supernatants were collected after centrifugation and incubated with elam - rg - coated dishes . cells were added after 30 min . and binding was determined as described above . immunoadsorption was performed with 40 μl of protein - a agarose beads ( sigma , st . louis , mo .) to which 10 μg of affinity purified rabbit anti - mouse igm were adsorbed , followed by 5 μl of cslex1 ascites . control beads were similarly prepared but were not incubated with cslex1 . the beads were washed with pbs and incubated with the supernatants for 1 hr . at 4 °. results are shown in fig1 and are expressed as the percent of cells bound , relative to the number bound in the presence of supernatants of granulocytes incubated without cytokine under the same conditions . data shown are mean ± standard deviation of triplicate determinations in three independent experiments . fig1 shows that supernatants harvested from cultures of granulocytes treated with il - 8 , but not il - 1 , blocked the adhesion of hl60 cells to immobilized elam - 1 , and the binding inhibition could be specifically reversed by adsorption of the supernatants with solid - phase cslex1 , but not with the immunoadsorption matrix alone . other embodiments are within the claims . for example , the invention encompasses any antibody with decreased ability to fix complement and bind an f c receptor as a result of attached carbohydrate side chains ; as described above , these include antibodies useful for their immunologic specificity ( e . g ., antibodies , e . g ., my904 , todd et al ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 840 , 793 ) which competitively inhibit cell - cell interactions as well as antibodies which are used only as carriers for therapeutic carbohydrate groups . because n - linked glycan addition sites are well known to be : asparagine ( n ), x , serine ( s ) or threonine ( t ), where x stands for any residue except proline , one skilled in the art may design a molecule having any number of such sites and thus any number of carbohydrate side chains . glycosylation sites are incorporated into the antibody sequence , for example , by in vitro site - directed mutagenesis . non - complement fixing and non - f c receptor binding antibodies would be used for purposes other than treating inflammation . for example , such an antibody directed against gpii b iii a may be used to inhibit platelet aggregation and therefore would be useful for the treatment of myocardial infarction . antibodies to proteins , such as fibrin or one of the clotting cascade proteins , would be useful for inhibiting thrombotic formation . in general , any antibody ( including , without limitation , anti - mo - 1 and anti - cd14 ) proposed or demonstrated to have a therapeutic use may be improved by the addition of carbohydrate moieties which mask the antibody &# 39 ; s ability to fix complement and bind an f c receptor . this characteristic would be particularly important , for example , for immunoglobulin fusion proteins ( for example , an α 1 - agp - igg1 fusion protein ). in this case , a protein of interest is fused ( for example , genetically ) to an immunoglobulin molecule to increase the protein &# 39 ; s serum half life . because these fusion proteins have an extended life in the patient , they are more likely to be recognized as foreign antigens , and it is therefore particularly useful for such proteins to evade the patient &# 39 ; s f c receptor binding and complement fixation systems . for the purpose of blocking interactions between cells or proteins , any other appropriate carrier molecule may be utilized . generally , proteins are preferred because of their relatively long half - lives in serum . one class of carrier proteins are serum proteins such as albumin ( e . g ., bovine serum albumin or human serum albumin ), transferrin , or α - 2 macroglobulin . the carrier proteins can contain endogenous glycan addition sites or sites may be introduced into the dna sequence of the carrier protein ( as described above ) by , for example , site - directed mutagenesis . the carrier molecule , less preferably , may be a lipid . in one example , the lipid , with one or more attached carbohydrate moieties ( e . g ., sialyl - le x determinants ), is delivered as a liposome to a target cell wall ( e . g ., an endothelial cell wall ). the liposome may block a cell or protein interaction or may be used to deliver a drug to its appropriate site of action . cell adhesion molecules in addition to elam - 1 may be inhibited by attachment of appropriate carbohydrate recognition moieties to a carrier molecule as described above . such cell adhesion molecules may include , without limitation , lfa - 1 , lfa - 3 , icam - 1 , padgem , mel - 14 , lam - 1 , a cadherin , cell - cam , or an n - cam . other glycans may be attached including , without limitation , any n - linked glycan , o - linked glycan , gmp - 140 , leu8 , and phosphatidyl inositol phosphate glycans . in cases where the glycan addition signal is known , it may be introduced into the dna sequence of an organic carrier molecule as described above . alternatively , if the precise site is not known , but the general region of such an addition site in some naturally - occurring molecule has been defined , a dna fragment ( from the sequence encoding the naturally - occurring molecule ) which includes that region may be cloned into the dna sequence of the desired carrier molecule ( e . g ., an igg1 - or α 1 - agp - encoding sequence ). production of carrier molecules bearing carbohydrate moieties may be carried out in a cell , preferably , a eukaryotic cell other than yeast . mammalian cells , e . g ., mammalian cell lines , provide particularly suitable hosts . these cells generally synthesize the necessary precursor molecules and produce or can be engineered to produce the enzymes responsible for carbohydrate attachment . for the attachment of sialyl - le x determinants , mammalian cell lines such as cho and lec11 are particularly suitable . alternatively , carbohydrate moieties may be attached to a carrier molecule in vitro , i . e ., extracellularly . in one example , α -( 1 , 3 ) fucosyltransferase would be bound to a solid support ( e . g ., a column ) and the desired carrier molecule passed over 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