| abstract |
Disclosed is an antibody having an enhanced ADCC activity. Also disclosed is a method for producing the antibody. It was attempted to advance the technique of the amino acid mutation in an Fc region established by researchers of Genentech Inc. or the like, and a study was made on whether or not the ADCC activity can be enhanced by the mutation of an amino acid residue in an Fc region into cysteine (Cys) which may cause a drastic structural change that cannot be drawn by a computational search. As a consequence, a chemeric antibody is provided which has the mutation of an amino acid residue at least one position selected from the group consisting of 286th, 287th, 288th, 289th, 290th, 291st, 292nd, 294th, 298th, 301st, 302nd, 303rd, 305th, 306th, 307th, 308th and 309th positions into a Cys residue in an H-chain constant region. |