Alemtuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody specific to lymphocyte antigens. It is a recombinant DNA-derived humanized monoclonal antibody (Campath-1H) that is directed against the 21-28 kD cell surface glycoprotein, CD52. The Campath-1H antibody is an IgG1 kappa with the human variable framework and constant regions, and complementarity-determining regions from a murine (rat) monoclonal antibody (Campath-1G). Alemtuzumab is produced in mammalian cell (Chinese hamster ovary) suspension culture in a medium containing neomycin.
Alemtuzumab was approved by the FDA in 2001. It is marketed as LEMTRADA for multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment and CAMPTAH for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). The dose of alemtuzumab used for B-CLL is much higher than that for MS, and also at more frequent dosing.
用于烷化剂氟达拉滨(fludarabine)治疗失败的B细胞性慢性淋巴细胞白血病患者;亦可用于复发缓解型多发性硬化症治疗。
Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Chemnitz, Germany
Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
West London Renal and Transplant Centre, 4th Floor Ham House, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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