title: Gene transfer to carcinoma of the breast with fiber-modified adenoviral vectors in a tissue slice model system.
abstract: Successful adenoviral (Ad) vector-mediated strategies for breast cancer gene therapy and virotherapy have heretofore been hindered by low transduction efficiency. This has recently been understood to result from a relative paucity of expression of the primary adenovirus receptor, coxsackie-adenovirus-receptor (CAR), on primary tumor cells. To further investigate this issue, we evaluated the expression of CAR on breast cancer cell lines as well as primary breast cancer cells. With the exception of one patient sample, CAR expression was notably higher in the tumor cells from patients compared to CAR expression in the tumor cell lines. Furthermore, we explored CAR-independent targeting strategies to breast cancer tissue by exploring a panel of infectivity-enhanced Ad vectors, which contain CAR-independent targeting motifs for their utility in breast cancer gene therapy and virotherapy. These targeting motifs included Ad 3 knob (Ad5/3), canine Ad serotype 2 knob (Ad5CAV-2), RGD (Ad5.RGD), polylysine (Ad5.pK7), or both RGD and polylysine (Ad5.RGD.pK7), and were tested using the breast cancer tissue slice model, which is the most stringent substrate system available. Of all the tested tropism modified Ad vectors, Ad5/3 exhibited the highest transductional efficiency in breast cancer. These preclinical results suggest that Ad5/3 is the most useful modification to achieve higher clinical efficacy of breast cancer gene therapy and virotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Human Gene Therapy, Department of Medicine and Gene Therapy Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA.
authors.forename: Mariam A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Stoff-Khalili
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stoff
authors.forename: Angel A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.forename: J Michael
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mathis
authors.forename: Maaike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Everts
authors.forename: Minghui
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waehler
authors.forename: Quiana L
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Mathews
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Rodney P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Rocconi
authors.forename: Gene P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Siegal
authors.forename: Dirk F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dall
authors.forename: Zeng B
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: David T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Curiel
mesh_terms: D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D062727:Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor-Like Membrane Protein; D005260:Female; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008954:Models, Biological; D011991:Receptors, Virus / Q000378:metabolism; D012703:Serotyping; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014161:Transduction, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: C568771:CLMP protein, human; D062727:Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor-Like Membrane Protein; D011991:Receptors, Virus