SOLUBLE FORM OF CARBONIC ANHYDRASE IX (s-CA IX), ASSAY TO DETECT s-CA IX, CA IX's COEXPRESSION WITH HER-2/neu/c-erbB-2, AND CA IX-SPECIFIC MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY AGAINST NON-IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, among other MN/CA IX-related inventions, new MN/CA IX-specific antibodies generated from MN/CA IX-deficient mice, preferably monoclonal antibodies and immunoreactive fragments and recombinant variants thereof.SOLUTION: Subsets of the new antibodies are to either the proteoglycan-like (PG) domain or to the carbonic anhydrase (CA) domain of MN/CA IX, and methods are provided by which antibodies can be prepared to the residual MN/CA IX domains. Such new MN/CA IX-specific antibodies, fragments and variants are useful diagnostically/prognostically and therapeutically for cancer and precancer. Particularly preferred are the new monoclonal antibodies, fragments and variants that are specific for the non-immunodominant epitopes of MN/CA IX, which antibodies are, among other uses, useful to detect soluble MN/CA IX (s-CA IX) in body fluids, alone but preferably in combination with antibodies specific to the immunodominant epitopes of MN/CA IX, for example, in a sandwich assay.