Systemic delivery of siRNA specific to tumor mediated by atelocollagen: combined therapy using siRNA targeting Bcl-xL and cisplatin against prostate cancer.
The largest obstacle to the effective use of short interfering RNA (siRNA) in an animal body is the ability to deliver it to the target tissue. Here we showed a systemic delivery method of siRNA specific to pregrown solid tumors via atelocollagen. Atelocollagen facilitated the selective uptake of siRNA into the tumors when an siRNA/atelocollagen complex was administered intravenously to mice. We chose a Bcl-xL protein as a model target to prove the therapeutic efficacy of the atelocollagen-mediated method. Bcl-xL acts as an anti-apoptotic factor, which is overexpressed in many cancers, including prostate cancer. One of the four designed siRNAs to human Bcl-xL potently inhibited the expression of Bcl-xL by the PC-3 human prostate cancer cell line in vitro, leading to cell apoptosis. Intravenous injections for3 consecutive days (siRNA, 100 microg/injection per day as a complex with atelocollagen) effectively downregulated Bcl-xL expression in the PC-3 xenograft. We administered four series of 3 consecutive days of intravenous injections each, for a total of 12 injections, which significantly inhibited tumor growth when the treatment was combined with cisplatin (2 mg/kg). Local injection of Bcl-xL siRNA also potently inhibited tumor growth. All of the tumors treated with Bcl-xL siRNA/atelocollagen complex via both intravenous and intratumoral injection showed terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling-positive apoptosis. There were no severe side effects such as interferon-alpha induction and liver or renal damage in mice. Our results indicate that systemic delivery of siRNA via atelocollagen, which specifically targets tumors, is safe and feasible for cancer therapy.
Department of Biochemistry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
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Shunji
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Nagahara
Naoki
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Makita
Yuzo
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Tarumi
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Kadomatsu
Yoshifumi
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Takei
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003094:Collagen / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000494:pharmacology*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D023041:Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays; D051020:bcl-X Protein / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; C059821:atelocollagen; D051020:bcl-X Protein; D003094:Collagen; D002945:Cisplatin