title: Listeria-based HPV-16 E7 vaccines limit autochthonous tumor growth in a transgenic mouse model for HPV-16 transformed tumors.
abstract: We have shown that Listeria-based cancer vaccines inhibit the growth of transplanted tumors in a transgenic mouse model of immune tolerance where HPV-16 E7 is expressed in the thyroid gland. In this study we determine whether these vaccines are able to inhibit autochthonous tumor growth in this animal model. Mice treated with Listeria vaccines expressing E7 had significantly smaller thyroid tumors than did mice treated with controls and possessed higher numbers of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells within the spleens, tumors, and peripheral blood. This study shows that Listeria-based vaccines are able to slow autochthonous tumor growth and break immunological tolerance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. dsewell@smail.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Duane A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sewell
authors.forename: Zhen Kun
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Paterson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000276:immunology; D008087:Listeria / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral / Q000276:immunology*; D050725:Papillomavirus E7 Proteins; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013154:Spleen / Q000276:immunology; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000276:immunology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral; D050725:Papillomavirus E7 Proteins; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines; C059731:oncogene protein E7, Human papillomavirus type 16; D007371:Interferon-gamma