Enhanced delivery of mda-7/IL-24 using a serotype chimeric adenovirus (Ad.5/3) improves therapeutic efficacy in low CAR prostate cancer cells.
Gene therapy is being examined as a potential strategy for treating prostate cancer. Serotype 5 adenovirus (Ad.5) is routinely used as a vector for transgene delivery. However, the infectivity of Ad.5 is dependent on Coxsackie-adenovirus receptors (CARs); many tumor types show a reduction in this receptor in vivo, thereby limiting therapeutic gene transduction. Serotype chimerism is one approach to circumvent CAR deficiency; this strategy is used to generate an Ad.5/3-recombinant Ad that infects cancer cells through Ad.3 receptors in a CAR-independent manner. In this report, the enhanced transgene delivery and efficacy of Ad.5/3-recombinant virus was evaluated using an effective wide-spectrum anticancer therapeutic melanoma differentiation-associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24). Our data show that in low CAR human prostate cancer cells (PC-3), a recombinant Ad.5/3 virus delivering mda-7/IL-24 (Ad.5/3-mda-7) is more efficacious than an Ad.5 virus encoding mda-7/IL-24 (Ad.5-mda-7) in infecting tumor cells, expressing MDA-7/IL-24 protein, inducing cancer-specific apoptosis, inhibiting in vivo tumor growth and exerting an antitumor 'bystander' effect in a nude mouse xenograft model. Considering the fact that Ad.5-mda-7 has shown significant objective responses in a phase I clinical trial for solid tumors, Ad.5/3-mda-7 is predicted to exert enhanced therapeutic benefit in patients with prostate cancer.
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Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
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D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D062727:Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor-Like Membrane Protein; D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007378:Interleukins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy*; D011991:Receptors, Virus / Q000378:metabolism*; D019076:Transgenes; D023041:Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays; D000099180:Interleukin-24
D062727:Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor-Like Membrane Protein; D007378:Interleukins; D011991:Receptors, Virus; D000099180:Interleukin-24; C568771:CLMP protein, human; C568772:CLMP protein, mouse