Anti-ALK antibodies in patients with ALK-positive malignancies not expressing NPM-ALK

Christine Damm-Welk; Faraz Siddiqi; Matthias Fischer; Barbara Hero; Vignesh Narayanan; David Ross Camidge; Michael Harris; Amos Burke; Thomas Lehrnbecher; Karen Pulford; Ilske Oschlies; Reiner Siebert; Suzanne Turner; Wilhelm Woessmann

doi:10.7150/jca.15238

Anti-ALK antibodies in patients with ALK-positive malignancies not expressing NPM-ALK

Christine Damm-Welk^*, Faraz Siddiqi, Matthias Fischer, Barbara Hero, Vignesh Narayanan, David Ross Camidge, Michael Harris, Amos Burke, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Karen Pulford, Ilske Oschlies, Reiner Siebert, Suzanne Turner, Wilhelm Woessmann

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Abstract

Patients with Nucleophosmin (NPM)- Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) fusion positive Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma produce autoantibodies against ALK indicative of an immune response against epitopes of the chimeric fusion protein. We asked whether ALK-expression in other malignancies induces specific antibodies. Antibodies against ALK were detected in sera of one of 50 analysed ALK-expressing neuroblastoma patients, 13 of 21 ALK positive non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients, 13 of 22 ALK translocation-positive, but NPM-ALK-negative lymphoma patients and one of one ALK-positive rhabdomyosarcoma patient, but not in 20 healthy adults. These data suggest that boosting a pre-existent anti-ALK immune response may be more feasible for patients with ALK-positive NSCLC, lymphomas and rhabdomyosarcomas than for tumours expressing wild-type ALK.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1383-1387
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Cancer
Volume	7
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.15238
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the staff of the NHL-BFM laboratory for expert technical assistance.This work was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Jose Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung (DJCLS08/09) to WW, and RS. CDW and WW are additionally supported by the von behring röntgen stiftung (60-0011) and the Forschungshilfe Peiper, IO and RS by the Kinderkrebsinitiative Buchholz/Holm-Seppensen and KP by Bloodwise, the Julian Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund and the Sam Foye Fund. SDT is a Bloodwise University Senior Lecturer and is also supported by the Alex Hulme Foundation and the Sam Foye Fund. MH is supported by a PhD studentship from the Wellcome Trust.

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© Ivyspring International Publisher.

Keywords

ALK-antibody titre
Lymphoma
Neuroblastoma
NSCLC

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Oncology

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