title: Inhibitory effect of recombinant adenovirus carrying immunocaspase-3 on hepatocellular carcinoma.
abstract: Previously, Srinivasula devised a contiguous molecule (C-cp-3 or immunocaspase-3) containing the small and large subunits similar to that in the active form of caspas-3 and found C-cp-3 had similar cleavage activity to the active form of caspase-3. To search for a new clinical application of C-cp-3 to treat hepatocellular carcinoma, recombinant adenoviruses carrying the C-cp-3 and a-fetoprotein (AFP) promoter (Ad-rAFP-C-cp-3) were constructed through a bacterial homologous recombinant system. The efficiency of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer and the inhibitory effect of Ad-rAFP-C-cp-3 on the proliferation of hepatocarcinoma cells were determined by X-gal stain and MTT assay, respectively. The tumorigenicity of hepatocarcinoma cells transfected by Ad-rAFP-C-cp-3 and the antitumor effect of Ad-rAFP-C-cp-3 on transplanted tumor in nude mice were detected in vivo. The results suggested that Ad-rAFP-C-cp-3 can inhibit specifically proliferation of AFP-producing human hepatocarcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo and adenovirus-mediated C-cp-3 transfer could be used as a new method to treat human hepatocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology & Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Xue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Haifeng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Daiming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000235:genetics; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D053148:Caspase 3 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D053148:Caspase 3