Reactivity of monoclonal anti-K 562 antibodies with cells of leukemia- and lymphoma-patients.

For further characterization, monoclonal anti-K 562 antibodies (1) were tested against blood or bone marrow cell samples of patients with various leukemias and lymphomas. One antibody, ZIK-C1-A/D9 (also designated Y) reactive in previous tests exclusively with K 562 cells, but not with normal blood cells, exhibited a selective binding to cells of most AML-patients and CML-patients in myeloid blast crisis. Cells of patients with other hematopoietic malignancies were negative, except three single cases (one lymphosarcoma, one AUL and one hairy cell leukemia). Antibody ZIK-C1-B/H5 (short name H) detected an antigenic determinant, preferentially expressed on cells of AML and CML patients, but also on normal granulocytes and some mononuclear cells. Two additional monoclonal anti-K 562 antibodies, ZIK-C1-A/F5 (short name C) and 2B7, yielded specificities shared by a variety of normal and malignant hematopoietic cells.