title: Recombinant vaccinia interleukin-2-infected tumor cell vaccines in immunotherapy of murine colon adenocarcinoma.
abstract: A recombinant vaccinia virus (vCF13) containing and expressing the gene for human interleukin (IL)-2(vCF13) was compared to a recombinant vaccinia transfection control strain containing the LacZ gene at the same insertion site (vTFCLZ-1) for their ability to augment the immunogenicity of murine colon adenocarcinoma cell lines CT26 and CA51 in Balb/c mice. Both recombinant vaccinia strains abolished tumorigenicity of 10(5) CT26 or CA51 tumor cells. vCF13-infected tumor cells that secreted human IL-2 as measured by both CTLL-2 and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays induced delay in tumorigenesis when administered in two weekly subcutaneous injections 1 week prior to challenge with 10(5) uninfected tumor cells. Although three of five vCF13-CT26 immunized mice developed tumors by day 14 after challenge, intralesional injection of these tumors with vCF13 induced rapid regression, whereas all five tumors that developed in vTFCLZ-1 immunized mice showed no response to intralesional vTFCLZ-1. These preliminary results provide support for the potential utility of recombinant vaccinia/IL-2 in tumor immunotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Florida International University, Miami 33199.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bash
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000628:therapy*; D000818:Animals; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D016233:Immunotherapy, Active; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D014616:Vaccinia virus / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2