Detection of human osteosarcoma-associated antigen(s) by monoclonal antibodies.

Hybrid cell lines have been derived from a fusion between mouse myeloma cells, NS1, and spleen cells from mice immunized with freshly resected osteosarcoma cells from an untreated patient. Of the 276 hybrids obtained, five secreted antibodies which bound to osteosarcoma tissues but not to autologous skin fibroblasts. The antibodies from three of these five hybrids, OST6, OST7, and OST15, reacted with all of five osteosarcoma tissues and with one chondrosarcoma tissue but not with other malignant or benign tumors. Tests of various normal tissues were negative, except for weak binding to a subpopulation of chondrocytes in articular cartilage. The reciprocal binding inhibition test showed that OST6, OST7, and OST15 antibodies were directed against different antigenic determinants.