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The histone deacetylase inhibitor valproic acid lessens NK cell action against oncolytic virus-infected glioblastoma cells by inhibition of STAT5/T-BET signaling and generation of gamma interferon. J Virol 2012; 86:4566-77. [PMID: 22318143 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.05545-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tumor virotherapy has been and continues to be used in clinical trials. One barrier to effective viral oncolysis, consisting of the interferon (IFN) response induced by viral infection, is inhibited by valproic acid (VPA) and other histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi). Innate immune cell recruitment and activation have been shown to be deleterious to the efficacy of oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) infection, and in this report we demonstrate that VPA limits this deleterious response. VPA, administered prior to oHSV inoculation in an orthotopic glioblastoma mouse model, resulted in a decline in NK and macrophage recruitment into tumor-bearing brains at 6 and 24 h post-oHSV infection. Interestingly, there was a robust rebound of recruitment of these cells at 72 h post-oHSV infection. The observed initial decline in immune cell recruitment was accompanied by a reduction in their activation status. VPA was also found to have a profound immunosuppressive effect on human NK cells in vitro. NK cytotoxicity was abrogated following exposure to VPA, consistent with downmodulation of cytotoxic gene expression of granzyme B and perforin at the mRNA and protein levels. In addition, suppression of gamma IFN (IFN-γ) production by VPA was associated with decreased STAT5 phosphorylation and dampened T-BET expression. Despite VPA-mediated immune suppression, mice were not at significantly increased risk for HSV encephalitis. These findings indicate that one of the avenues by which VPA enhances oHSV efficacy is through initial suppression of immune cell recruitment and inhibition of inflammatory cell pathways within NK cells.
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Deciphering the Multifaceted Relationship between Oncolytic Viruses and Natural Killer Cells. Adv Virol 2011; 2012:702839. [PMID: 22312364 PMCID: PMC3263705 DOI: 10.1155/2012/702839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2011] [Accepted: 09/14/2011] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Despite active research in virotherapy, this apparently safe modality has not achieved widespread success. The immune response to viral infection appears to be an essential factor that determines the efficacy of oncolytic viral therapy. The challenge is determining whether the viral-elicited immune response is a hindrance or a tool for viral treatment. NK cells are a key component of innate immunity that mediates antiviral immunity while also coordinating tumor clearance. Various reports have suggested that the NK response to oncolytic viral therapy is a critical factor in premature viral clearance while also mediating downstream antitumor immunity. As a result, particular attention should be given to the NK cell response to various oncolytic viral vectors and how their antiviral properties can be suppressed while maintaining tumor clearance. In this review we discuss the current literature on the NK response to oncolytic viral infection and how future studies clarify this intricate response.
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Naik JD, Twelves CJ, Selby PJ, Vile RG, Chester JD. Immune recruitment and therapeutic synergy: keys to optimizing oncolytic viral therapy? Clin Cancer Res 2011; 17:4214-24. [PMID: 21576084 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-2848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Oncolytic viruses consist of a diverse range of DNA and RNA viruses traditionally thought to mediate their effects by exploiting aberrations in tumor pathways, allowing preferential viral replication in, and killing of, tumor cells. Clinical development has progressed to late-phase trials, potentially heralding their introduction into clinical practice. However, despite this promise, the activity of oncolytic viruses has yet to achieve the potential suggested in preclinical models. To address this disparity, we need to recognize the complex interaction among oncolytic viruses, tumor, chemotherapy, and host immune system, and appreciate that direct oncolysis may not be the only factor to play an important role in oncolytic virus-mediated antitumor efficacy. Although key in inactivating viruses, the host immune system can also act as an ally against tumors, interacting with oncolytic viruses under the right conditions to generate useful and long-lasting antitumor immunity. Preclinical data also suggest that oncolytic viruses show synergy with standard therapies, which may offer improved clinical response rates. Here, we explore clinical and preclinical data on clinically relevant oncolytic viruses, highlighting areas of progress, uncertainty, and translational opportunity, with respect to immune recruitment and therapeutic synergy.
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- Jay D Naik
- Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Kubo T, Shimose S, Matsuo T, Fujimori J, Sakaguchi T, Yamaki M, Shinozaki K, Woo SLC, Ochi M. Oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus administered by isolated limb perfusion suppresses osteosarcoma growth. J Orthop Res 2011; 29:795-800. [PMID: 21437961 DOI: 10.1002/jor.21307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2010] [Accepted: 10/08/2010] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A significant limitation to oncolytic virotherapy in vivo is the lack of a clinically relevant means of delivering the virus. We evaluated the oncolytic activity of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in human osteosarcoma cells and explored isolated limb perfusion (ILP) as a novel oncolytic virus delivery system to extremity sarcoma in immune-competent rats. Human and rat osteosarcoma cells transduced with rVSV-lacZ uniformly expressed β-gal. VSV was fully capable of replicating its RNA genome in all osteosarcoma cell lines, and efficiently killed them in time- and dose-dependent manners, whereas normal bone marrow stromal cells were refractory to the virus. VSV delivered by ILP inhibited growth of osteosarcoma xenografts more potently than that injected intravenously and intratumorally in the hind limb of immune-competent rats. Histopathological sections of tumor lesions treated by ILP-delivered VSV showed positive for VSV-G protein. There were no VSV-G expressions in perfused leg muscle, nonperfused leg muscle, brain, lung, and liver in VSV-treated rats. Our findings show efficient VSV gene expression and replication in osteosarcoma cells, suggesting that osteosarcoma may be a promising target for oncolytic virotherapy with VSV. Furthermore, we firstly showed that ILP of VSV against extremity sarcoma caused antitumor activity.
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- Tadahiko Kubo
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.
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Willmon C, Diaz RM, Wongthida P, Galivo F, Kottke T, Thompson J, Albelda S, Harrington K, Melcher A, Vile R. Vesicular stomatitis virus-induced immune suppressor cells generate antagonism between intratumoral oncolytic virus and cyclophosphamide. Mol Ther 2010; 19:140-9. [PMID: 20978474 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2010.224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Despite having potent oncolytic activity, in vitro, direct intratumoral injection of oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) into established AE17ova mesothelioma tumors in C57Bl/6 mice had no therapeutic effect. During studies to combine systemic cyclophosphamide (CPA) with VSV to suppress the innate immune reaction against VSV, we observed that CPA alone had highly significant antitumor effects in this model. However, against our expectations, the combination of CPA and VSV consistently reduced therapeutic efficacy compared to CPA alone, despite the fact that the combination increased intratumoral VSV titers. We show here that CPA-mediated therapy against AE17ova tumors was immune-mediated and dependent upon both CD4 T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. However, intratumoral VSV induced a transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)-dependent suppressive activity, mediated by CD11b(+)GR-1(+) cells that significantly inhibited both antigen-specific T-cell activation, and CPA-activated, NK-dependent killing of AE17ova tumor cells. Overall, our results show that treatment with oncolytic viruses can induce a variety of immune-mediated consequences in vivo with both positive, or negative, effects on antitumor therapy. These underexplored immune consequences of treatment with oncolytic viruses may have significant, and possibly unexpected, impacts on how virotherapy interacts in combination with other agents which modulate antitumor immune effectors.
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- Candice Willmon
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Wojton J, Kaur B. Impact of tumor microenvironment on oncolytic viral therapy. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 2010; 21:127-34. [PMID: 20399700 DOI: 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2010.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment have been shown to play a very significant role in the initiation, progression, and invasiveness of cancer. These tumor-stromal interactions are capable of altering the delivery and effectiveness of therapeutics into the tumor and are also known to influence future resistance and re-growth after treatment. Here we review recent advances in the understanding of the tumor microenvironment and its response to oncolytic viral therapy. The multifaceted environmental response to viral therapy can influence viral infection, replication, and propagation within the tumor. Recent studies have unveiled the complicated temporal changes in the tumor vasculature post-oncolytic virus (OV) treatment, and their impact on tumor biology. Similarly, the secreted extracellular matrix in solid tumors can affect both infection and spread of the therapeutic virus. Together, these complex changes in the tumor microenvironment also modulate the activation of the innate antiviral host immune response, leading to quick and efficient viral clearance. In order to combat these detrimental responses, viruses have been combined with pharmacological adjuvants and "armed" with therapeutic genes in order to suppress the pernicious environmental conditions following therapy. In this review we will discuss the impact of the tumor environment on viral therapy and examine some of the recent literature investigating methods of modulating this environment to enhance oncolysis.
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- Jeffrey Wojton
- Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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The very deep knowledge acquired on the genetics and molecular biology of herpes simplex virus (HSV), has allowed the development of potential replication-competent and replication-defective vectors for several applications in human healthcare. These include delivery and expression of human genes to cells of the nervous systems, selective destruction of cancer cells, prophylaxis against infection with HSV or other infectious diseases, and targeted infection to specific tissues or organs. Replication-defective recombinant vectors are non-toxic gene transfer tools that preserve most of the neurotropic features of wild type HSV-1, particularly the ability to express genes after having established latent infections, and are thus proficient candidates for therapeutic gene transfer settings in neurons. A replication-defective HSV vector for the treatment of pain has recently entered in phase 1 clinical trial. Replication-competent (oncolytic) vectors are becoming a suitable and powerful tool to eradicate brain tumours due to their ability to replicate and spread only within the tumour mass, and have reached phase II/III clinical trials in some cases. The progress in understanding the host immune response induced by the vector is also improving the use of HSV as a vaccine vector against both HSV infection and other pathogens. This review briefly summarizes the obstacle encountered in the delivery of HSV vectors and examines the various strategies developed or proposed to overcome such challenges.
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- Roberto Manservigi
- Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine - Section of Microbiology, University of Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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Manservigi R, Argnani R, Marconi P. HSV Recombinant Vectors for Gene Therapy. Open Virol J 2010; 4:123-56. [PMID: 20835362 DOI: 10.2174/1874357901004030123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2009] [Revised: 03/13/2010] [Accepted: 03/31/2010] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The very deep knowledge acquired on the genetics and molecular biology of herpes simplex virus (HSV), has allowed the development of potential replication-competent and replication-defective vectors for several applications in human healthcare. These include delivery and expression of human genes to cells of the nervous systems, selective destruction of cancer cells, prophylaxis against infection with HSV or other infectious diseases, and targeted infection to specific tissues or organs. Replication-defective recombinant vectors are non-toxic gene transfer tools that preserve most of the neurotropic features of wild type HSV-1, particularly the ability to express genes after having established latent infections, and are thus proficient candidates for therapeutic gene transfer settings in neurons. A replication-defective HSV vector for the treatment of pain has recently entered in phase 1 clinical trial. Replication-competent (oncolytic) vectors are becoming a suitable and powerful tool to eradicate brain tumours due to their ability to replicate and spread only within the tumour mass, and have reached phase II/III clinical trials in some cases. The progress in understanding the host immune response induced by the vector is also improving the use of HSV as a vaccine vector against both HSV infection and other pathogens. This review briefly summarizes the obstacle encountered in the delivery of HSV vectors and examines the various strategies developed or proposed to overcome such challenges.
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- Roberto Manservigi
- Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine - Section of Microbiology, University of Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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VEGF blockade decreases the tumor uptake of systemic oncolytic herpes virus but enhances therapeutic efficacy when given after virotherapy. Gene Ther 2010; 17:922-9. [PMID: 20508601 PMCID: PMC2900405 DOI: 10.1038/gt.2010.82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Effective therapies for metastatic sarcomas remain elusive. Oncolytic viruses have shown promise as anticancer agents, but their access to metastatic sites following systemic delivery is low. As systemic delivery of small-molecule chemotherapy is enhanced by previous treatment with antiangiogenic agents because of changes in intravascular-to-tumor interstitial pressure, we sought to determine whether antiangiogenic pretreatment increases the antitumor efficacy of systemic virotherapy by increasing virus uptake into tumor. Virus biodistribution and antitumor effects were monitored in tumor-bearing mice given antihuman vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or antimouse VEGFR2 before or after an intravenous (i.v.) injection of virus. Without pretreatment, the average virus titers in the tumor samples amplified 1700-fold over 48 h but were undetectable in other organs. After antiangiogenic treatment, average virus titers in the tumor samples were unchanged or in some cases decreased up to 100-fold. Thus, antiangiogenic pretreatment failed to improve the tumor uptake of systemic oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV), in contrast to previously reported enhanced uptake of small molecules. Superior tumor control because of the combined effects of virus and anti-VEGF was seen most dramatically when anti-VEGF was given after virus. Our data suggest that i.v. oHSV can treat distant sites of disease and can be enhanced by antiangiogenic therapy, but only when given in the proper sequence.
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Kaur B, Cripe TP, Chiocca EA. "Buy one get one free": armed viruses for the treatment of cancer cells and their microenvironment. Curr Gene Ther 2010; 9:341-55. [PMID: 19860649 DOI: 10.2174/156652309789753329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Oncolytic viral therapy is a promising biological therapy for the treatment of cancer. Recent advances in genetic engineering have facilitated the construction of custom-built oncolytic viruses that can be exquisitely targeted to tumors by exploiting each cancer's unique biology and their efficacy can be further enhanced by "arming" them with additional therapeutic genes. Such an approach allows the virus to unload its "therapeutic cargo" at the tumor site, thereby enhancing its anti-neoplastic properties. While several clever strategies have been recently described using genes that can induce cellular apoptosis/suicide and/or facilitate tumor/virus imaging, viruses armed with genes that also affect the tumor microenvironment present an exciting and promising approach to therapy. In this review we discuss recently developed oncolytic viruses armed with genes encoding for angiostatic factors, inflammatory cytokines, or proteases that modulate the extracellular matrix to regulate tumor vascularization, anti-tumor immune responses and viral spread throughout the solid tumor.
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- Balveen Kaur
- Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Comprehensive Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Medical Center, 400 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,USA.
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Agarwalla PK, Barnard ZR, Curry WT. Virally mediated immunotherapy for brain tumors. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2009; 21:167-79. [PMID: 19944975 DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2009.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Brain tumors are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Malignant brain tumors occur in approximately 80,000 adults. Furthermore, the average 5-year survival rate for malignant brain tumors across all ages and races is approximately 30% and has remained relatively static over the past few decades, showing the need for continued research and progress in brain tumor therapy. Improved techniques in molecular biology have expanded understanding of tumor genetics and permitted viral engineering and the anticancer therapeutic use of viruses as directly cytotoxic agents and as gene vectors. Preclinical models have shown promising antitumor effects, and generation of clinical grade vectors is feasible. In parallel to these developments, better understanding of antitumor immunity has been accompanied by progress in cancer immunotherapy, the goal of which is to stimulate host rejection of a growing tumor. This article reviews the intersection between the use of viral therapy and immunotherapy in the treatment of malignant gliomas. Each approach shows great promise on its own and in combined or integrated forms.
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- Pankaj K Agarwalla
- Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Ottolino-Perry K, Diallo JS, Lichty BD, Bell JC, McCart JA. Intelligent design: combination therapy with oncolytic viruses. Mol Ther 2009; 18:251-63. [PMID: 20029399 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2009.283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Metastatic cancer remains an incurable disease in the majority of cases and thus novel treatment strategies such as oncolytic virotherapy are rapidly advancing toward clinical use. In order to be successful, it is likely that some type of combination therapy will be necessary to have a meaningful impact on this disease. Although it may be tempting to simply combine an oncolytic virus with the existing standard radiation or chemotherapeutics, the long-term goal of such treatments must be to have a rational, potentially synergistic combination strategy that can be safely and easily used in the clinical setting. The combination of oncolytic virotherapy with existing radiotherapy and chemotherapy modalities is reviewed along with novel biologic therapies including immunotherapies, in order to help investigators make intelligent decisions during the clinical development of these products.
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- Kathryn Ottolino-Perry
- Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Alvarez-Breckenridge C, Kaur B, Chiocca EA. Pharmacologic and chemical adjuvants in tumor virotherapy. Chem Rev 2009; 109:3125-40. [PMID: 19462957 DOI: 10.1021/cr900048k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge
- Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Comprehensive Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Kottke T, Thompson J, Diaz RM, Pulido J, Willmon C, Coffey M, Selby P, Melcher A, Harrington K, Vile RG. Improved systemic delivery of oncolytic reovirus to established tumors using preconditioning with cyclophosphamide-mediated Treg modulation and interleukin-2. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 15:561-9. [PMID: 19147761 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-08-1688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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PURPOSE The goals of this study were (a) to investigate whether preconditioning of immunocompetent mice with PC-61-mediated regulatory T-cell (Treg) depletion and interleukin-2 (IL-2) would enhance systemic delivery of reovirus into subcutaneous tumors and (b) to test whether cyclophosphamide (CPA), which is clinically approved, could mimic PC-61 for modification of Treg activity for translation into the next generation of clinical trials for intravenous delivery of reovirus. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN C57Bl/6 mice bearing subcutaneous B16 tumors were treated with CPA or PC-61 followed by 10 injections of low-dose IL-2. Mice were then treated with intravenous reovirus. Virus localization to tumor and other organs was measured along with tumor growth and systemic toxicity. RESULTS Preconditioning with PC-61 and IL-2 enhanced localization of intravenous oncolytic reovirus to tumors with significantly increased antitumor therapy compared with controls (P < 0.01). However, with the maximal achievable dose of reovirus, Treg modification + IL-2 was also associated with systemic toxicity. CPA (100 mg/kg) did not deplete, but did functionally inhibit, Treg. CPA also mimicked PC-61, in combination with IL-2, by inducing "hyperactivated" NK cells. Consistent with this, preconditioning with CPA + IL-2 enhanced therapy of intravenously delivered, intermediate-dose reovirus to a level indistinguishable from that induced by PC-61 + IL-2, without any detectable toxicity. CONCLUSION With careful reference to ongoing clinical trials with dose escalation of reovirus alone and in combination with CPA, we propose that future clinical trials of CPA + IL-2 + reovirus will allow for both improved levels of virus delivery and increased antitumor efficacy.
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- Timothy Kottke
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Immunology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Grandi P, Peruzzi P, Reinhart B, Cohen JB, Chiocca EA, Glorioso JC. Design and application of oncolytic HSV vectors for glioblastoma therapy. Expert Rev Neurother 2009; 9:505-17. [PMID: 19344302 DOI: 10.1586/ern.09.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most common human brain tumors. The tumor is generally highly infiltrative, making it extremely difficult to treat by surgical resection or radiotherapy. This feature contributes to recurrence and a very poor prognosis. Few anticancer drugs have been shown to alter rapid tumor growth and none are ultimately effective. Oncolytic vectors have been employed as a treatment alternative based on the ability to tailor virus replication to tumor cells. The human neurotropic herpes simplex virus (HSV) is especially attractive for development of oncolytic vectors (oHSV) because this virus is highly infectious, replicates rapidly and can be readily modified to achieve vector attenuation in normal brain tissue. Tumor specificity can be achieved by deleting viral genes that are only required for virus replication in normal cells and permit mutant virus replication selectively in tumor cells. The anti-tumor activity of oHSV can be enhanced by arming the vector with genes that either activate chemotherapeutic drugs within the tumor tissue or promote anti-tumor immunity. In this review, we describe current designs of oHSV and the experience thus far with their potential utility for glioblastoma therapy. In addition, we discuss the impediments to vector effectiveness and describe our view of future developments in vector improvement.
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- Paola Grandi
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Shillitoe EJ. Gene therapy: the end of the rainbow? HEAD & NECK ONCOLOGY 2009; 1:7. [PMID: 19331651 PMCID: PMC2669079 DOI: 10.1186/1758-3284-1-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2009] [Accepted: 03/30/2009] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The increased understanding of the molecular basis of oral cancer has led to expectations that correction of the genetic defects will lead to improved treatments. Nevertheless, the first clinical trials for gene therapy of oral cancer occurred 20 years ago, and routine treatment is still not available. The major difficulty is that genes are usually delivered by virus vectors whose effects are weak and temporary. Viruses that replicate would be better, and the field includes many approaches in that direction. If any of these are effective in patients, then gene therapy will become available in the next few years. Without significant advances, however, the treatment of oral cancer by gene therapy will remain as remote as the legendary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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- Edward J Shillitoe
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
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Prestwich RJ, Harrington KJ, Pandha HS, Vile RG, Melcher AA, Errington F. Oncolytic viruses: a novel form of immunotherapy. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2009; 8:1581-8. [PMID: 18925850 DOI: 10.1586/14737140.8.10.1581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Oncolytic viruses are novel anticancer agents, currently under investigation in Phase I-III clinical trials. Until recently, most studies have focused on the direct antitumor properties of these viruses, although there is now an increasing body of evidence that the host immune response may be critical to the efficacy of oncolytic virotherapy. This may be mediated via innate immune effectors, adaptive antiviral immune responses eliminating infected cells or adaptive antitumor immune responses. This report summarizes preclinical and clinical evidence for the importance of immune interactions, which may be finely balanced between viral and tumor elimination. On this basis, oncolytic viruses represent a promising novel immunotherapy strategy, which may be optimally combined with existing therapeutic modalities.
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- Robin J Prestwich
- Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Tumor-selective replication-competent viral vectors, such as oncolytic herpes simplex virus (HSV) type I (HSV-1), represent an attractive strategy for tumor-based therapies because these viruses can replicate and spread in situ exhibiting cytopathic effects through direct oncolytic activity. These lytic viruses offer a distinct advantage over other forms of cancer therapies in that they are self-perpetuating and can spread not only in the tumor itself, but also to distant micrometastases. Translational studies aimed at identifying novel virotherapies for human cancers are incumbent upon the appropriate experimental models. While animal models are the preferred choice for efficacy studies of HSV virotherapy, we have developed a novel complementary approach toward assessing the effectiveness of oncolytic HSV therapy in both brain and prostate cancers. This experimental model takes advantage of previously published work in which human prostate cancer biopsies and rodent brain slices can be easily maintained ex vivo. The advantage of these systems is that the three-dimensional structure remains intact. Thus, all of the factors that may affect viral entry and replication, such as cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, and interstitial fluid within this three-dimensional milieu remain preserved. Moreover, with respect to the brain, this system offers the advantage of direct access to brain cells, such as microglia and astrocytes, and circumvents the problems associated with the presence of the blood-brain barrier.
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- Giulia Fulci
- Brain Tumor Research Center, Simches Research Building, Neurosurgery Service, Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Use of biological therapy to enhance both virotherapy and adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer. Mol Ther 2008; 16:1910-8. [PMID: 18827807 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2008.212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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To protect viral particles from neutralization, sequestration, nonspecific adhesion, and mislocalization following systemic delivery, we have previously exploited the natural tumor-homing properties of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells. Thus, OT-I T cells, preloaded in vitro with the oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), can deliver virus to established B16ova tumors to generate significantly better therapy than that achievable with OT-I T cells, or systemically delivered VSV, alone. Here, we demonstrate that preconditioning immune-competent mice with Treg depletion and interleukin-2 (IL-2), before adoptive T-cell therapy with OT-I T cells loaded with VSV, leads to further highly significant increases in antitumor therapy. Therapy was associated with antitumor immune memory, but with no detectable toxicities associated with IL-2, Treg depletion, or systemic dissemination of the oncolytic virus. Efficacy was contributed by multiple factors, including improved persistence of T cells; enhanced delivery of VSV to tumors; increased persistence of OT-I cells in vivo resulting from tumor oncolysis; and activation of NK cells, which acquire potent antitumor and proviral activities. By controlling the levels of virus loaded onto the OT-I cells, adoptive therapy was still effective in mice preimmune to the virus, indicating that therapy with virus-loaded T cells may be useful even in virus-immune patients. Taken together, our data show that it is possible to combine adoptive T-cell therapy, with biological therapy (Treg depletion+IL-2), and VSV virotherapy, to treat established tumors under conditions where none of the individual modalities alone is successful.
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Brown CW, Bell JC. Oncolytic Viruses: A New Weapon to Fight Cancer. J Med Imaging Radiat Sci 2008; 39:115-127. [PMID: 31051886 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmir.2008.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Remission from cancer after viral infection was first noted in the beginning of the 20th century, and with advances in virotherapy and genetic engineering, the advent of an approved viral therapeutic in North America is fast approaching. Mechanisms of tumour selectivity and killing, along with information obtained from clinical trials are reviewed here. Although oncolytic viruses are generally safe and well tolerated, their overall anti-tumour efficacy has varied. This article outlines strategies to improve the efficacy of the oncolytic platform without compromising its impressive safety profile. It will highlight new methods being developed to quantify the activity of oncolytic viruses in real time. Harnessing the factors that control the tumour microenvironment and the immune system are the key to enhancing the oncolytic activity. The purpose of this article is to introduce and provide an overview of the current state of cancer killing of oncolytic viruses. The reader will acquire knowledge of the basic principles of oncolytic viruses and their use in the clinical setting. This review summarizes articles retrieved from Medline using key words such as "virus," "oncolytic virus," "virotherapy," "cancer," and "clinical trials." Review articles published in the English language from 2005 onward were read and corroborating data and conclusions were summarized. When appropriate, cited references were also reviewed and incorporated. The reader is directed to references we found most concise.
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- Christopher W Brown
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Regional Cancer Center, Ottawa, Ontario; Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Regional Cancer Center, Ottawa, Ontario.
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Thomas MA, Spencer JF, Toth K, Sagartz JE, Phillips NJ, Wold WSM. Immunosuppression enhances oncolytic adenovirus replication and antitumor efficacy in the Syrian hamster model. Mol Ther 2008; 16:1665-73. [PMID: 18665155 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2008.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We recently described an immunocompetent Syrian hamster model for oncolytic adenoviruses (Ads) that permits virus replication in tumor cells as well as some normal tissues. This model allows exploration of interactions between the virus, tumor, normal organs, and host immune system that could not be examined in the immunodeficient or nonpermissive animal models previously used in the oncolytic Ad field. Here we asked whether the immune response to oncolytic Ad enhances or limits antitumor efficacy. We first determined that cyclophosphamide (CP) is a potent immunosuppressive agent in the Syrian hamster and that CP alone had no effect on tumor growth. Importantly, we found that the antitumor efficacy of oncolytic Ads was significantly enhanced in immunosuppressed animals. In animals that received virus therapy plus immunosuppression, significant differences were observed in tumor histology, and in many cases little viable tumor remained. Notably, we also determined that immunosuppression allowed intratumoral virus levels to remain elevated for prolonged periods. Although favorable tumor responses can be achieved in immunocompetent animals, the rate of virus clearance from the tumor may lead to varied antitumor efficacy. Immunosuppression, therefore, allows sustained Ad replication and oncolysis, which leads to substantially improved suppression of tumor growth.
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- Maria A Thomas
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63104, USA
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Wu L, Huang TG, Meseck M, Altomonte J, Ebert O, Shinozaki K, García-Sastre A, Fallon J, Mandeli J, Woo SL. rVSV(M Delta 51)-M3 is an effective and safe oncolytic virus for cancer therapy. Hum Gene Ther 2008; 19:635-47. [PMID: 18533893 PMCID: PMC2775926 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2007.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2007] [Accepted: 03/31/2008] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is being developed as a novel therapeutic agent for cancer treatment, although it is toxic in animals when administered systemically at high doses. Its safety can be substantively improved by an M Delta 51 deletion in the viral genome, and yet VSV(M Delta 51) induces a much greater, robust cellular inflammatory response in the host than wild-type VSV, which severely attenuates its oncolytic potency. We have reported that the oncolytic potency of wild-type VSV can be enhanced by vector-mediated expression of a heterologous viral gene that suppresses cellular inflammatory responses in the lesions. To develop an effective and safe VSV vector for cancer treatment, we tested the hypothesis that the oncolytic potency of VSV(M Delta 51) can be substantively elevated by vector-mediated expression of M3, a broad-spectrum and high-affinity chemokine-binding protein from murine gammaherpesvirus-68. The recombinant vector rVSV(M Delta 51)-M3 was used to treat rats bearing multifocal lesions (1-10 mm in diameter) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in their liver by hepatic artery infusion. Treatment led to a significant reduction of neutrophil and natural killer cell accumulation in the lesions, a 2-log elevation of intratumoral viral titer, substantively enhanced tumor necrosis, and prolonged animal survival with a 50% cure rate. Importantly, there were no apparent systemic and organ toxicities in the treated animals. These results indicate that the robust cellular inflammatory responses induced by VSV(M Delta 51) in HCC lesions can be overcome by vector-mediated intratumoral M3 expression, and that rVSV(M Delta 51)-M3 can be developed as an effective and safe oncolytic agent to treat advanced HCC patients in the future.
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- Lan Wu
- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
- Present address: Second Medical Department, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, D-81675 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
- Present address: Second Medical Department, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, D-81675 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
- Present address: Department of Clinical Oncology, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
- Emerging Pathogens Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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Kottke T, Galivo F, Wongthida P, Diaz RM, Thompson J, Jevremovic D, Barber GN, Hall G, Chester J, Selby P, Harrington K, Melcher A, Vile RG. Treg depletion-enhanced IL-2 treatment facilitates therapy of established tumors using systemically delivered oncolytic virus. Mol Ther 2008; 16:1217-1226. [PMID: 18431359 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2008.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2008] [Accepted: 03/28/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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There are several roadblocks that hinder systemic delivery of oncolytic viruses to the sites of metastatic disease. These include the tumor vasculature, which provides a physical barrier to tumor-specific virus extravasation. Although interleukin-2 (IL-2) has been used in antitumor therapy, it is associated with endothelial cell injury, leading to vascular leak syndrome (VLS). Here, we demonstrate that IL-2-mediated VLS, accentuated by depletion of regulatory T cells (Treg), facilitates localization of intravenously (i.v.) delivered oncolytic virus into established tumors in immune-competent mice. IL-2, in association with Treg depletion, generates "hyperactivated" natural killer (NK) cells, possessing antitumor activity and secreting factors that facilitate virus spread/replication throughout the tumor by disrupting the tumor architecture. As a result, the combination of Treg depletion/IL-2 and systemic oncolytic virotherapy was found to be significantly more therapeutic against established disease than either treatment alone. These data demonstrate that it is possible to combine biological therapy with oncolytic virotherapy to generate systemic therapy against established tumors.
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- Timothy Kottke
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Qiao J, Wang H, Kottke T, White C, Twigger K, Diaz RM, Thompson J, Selby P, de Bono J, Melcher A, Pandha H, Coffey M, Vile R, Harrington K. Cyclophosphamide facilitates antitumor efficacy against subcutaneous tumors following intravenous delivery of reovirus. Clin Cancer Res 2008; 14:259-69. [PMID: 18172278 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-1510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether it is possible to achieve truly systemic delivery of oncolytic reovirus, in immunocompetent hosts, using cyclophosphamide to overcome some of the barriers to effective intratumoral delivery and replication of i.v. injected virus. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN I.v. delivery of reovirus was combined with different regimens of i.p. administered cyclophosphamide in C57Bl/6 mice bearing established s.c. B16 tumors. Intratumoral viral replication, tumor size, and survival were measured along with levels of neutralizing antibody (NAb) in the blood. Finally, differential toxicities of the virus/cyclophosphamide regimens were monitored through viral replication in systemic organs, survival, and cardiac damage. RESULTS Repeated i.v. injection of reovirus was poorly effective at seeding intratumoral viral replication/oncolysis. However, by combining i.v. virus with cyclophosphamide, viral titers of between 10(7) and 10(8) plaque-forming units per milligram were recovered from regressing tumors. Doses of cyclophosphamide that ablated NAb were associated with severe toxicities, characterized by viral replication in systemic organs--toxicities that are mirrored by repeated reovirus injections into B-cell knockout mice. Next, we restructured the dosing of cyclophosphamide and i.v. virus such that a dose of 3 mg cyclophosphamide was administered 24 h before reovirus injection, and this schedule was repeated every 6 days. Using this protocol, high levels of intratumoral viral access and replication ( approximately 10(7) plaque-forming units per milligram tumor) were maintained along with systemically protective levels of NAb and only very mild, non-life-threatening toxicity. CONCLUSION NAb to oncolytic viruses play a dual role in the context of systemic viral delivery; on one hand, they hinder repeated administration of virus but on the other, they provide an important safety mechanism by which virus released from vigorous intratumoral replication is neutralized before it can disseminate and cause toxicity. These data support the use of cyclophosphamide to modulate, but not ablate, patient NAb, in development of carefully controlled clinical trials of the systemic administration of oncolytic viruses.
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- Jian Qiao
- Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55902, USA
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Lang SI, Kottke T, Thompson J, Vile RG. Unbiased selection of bone marrow derived cells as carriers for cancer gene therapy. J Gene Med 2008; 9:927-37. [PMID: 17721895 DOI: 10.1002/jgm.1089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is currently great interest in development of cell-based carriers for delivery of viral vectors to metastatic tumors. To date, several cell carriers have been tested based largely upon their predicted tumor-localizing properties. However, cell types may exist which can be mobilized from the circulation by a tumor which have not yet been identified. Here we use an unbiased screen of bone marrow (BM) cells to identify cells which localize to tumors and which might serve as effective candidate cell carriers without any prior prediction or selection. METHODS Unsorted BM cells from green fluorescent protein (GFP)-transgenic donor mice were adoptively transferred into C57Bl/6 mice bearing pre-established subcutaneous B16 melanoma tumors. Forty-eight hours and eight days later, tumors, organs and blood were analyzed for GFP-expressing cells by flow cytometry. The phenotype of GFP cells in organs was determined by co-staining with specific cell surface markers. RESULTS CD45(+) hematopoietic cells were readily detected in tumor, spleen, bone marrow, blood and lung at both time points. Within these CD45(+) cell populations, preferential accumulation in the tumor was observed of cells expressing Sca-1, c-kit, NK1.1, Thy1.2, CD14, Mac-3 and/or CD11c. Lymphodepletion increased homing to spleen and bone marrow, but not to tumors. CONCLUSIONS We have used an in vivo screen to identify populations of BM-derived donor cells which accumulate within tumors. These studies will direct rational selection of specific cell types which can be tested in standardized assays of cell carrier efficiency for the treatment of metastatic tumors.
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- Susanne I Lang
- Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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King GD, Muhammad AKMG, Curtin JF, Barcia C, Puntel M, Liu C, Honig SB, Candolfi M, Mondkar S, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. Flt3L and TK gene therapy eradicate multifocal glioma in a syngeneic glioblastoma model. Neuro Oncol 2007; 10:19-31. [PMID: 18079358 DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2007-045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The disseminated characteristics of human glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) make it a particularly difficult tumor to treat with long-term efficacy. Most preclinical models of GBM involve treatment of a single tumor mass. For therapeutic outcomes to translate from the preclinical to the clinical setting, induction of an antitumor response capable of eliminating multifocal disease is essential. We tested the hypothesis that expression of Flt3L (human soluble FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand) and TK (herpes simplex virus type 1-thymidine kinase) within brain gliomas would mediate regression of the primary, treated tumor mass and a secondary, untreated tumor growing at a distant site from the primary tumor and the site of therapeutic vector injection. In both the single-GBM and multifocal-GBM models used, all saline-treated control animals succumbed to tumors by day 22. Around 70% of the animals bearing a single GBM mass treated with an adenovirus expressing Flt3L (AdFlt3L) and an adenovirus expressing TK (AdTK + GCV) survived long term. Approximately 50% of animals bearing a large primary GBM that were implanted with a second GBM in the contralateral hemisphere at the same time the primary tumors were being treated with AdFlt3L and AdTK also survived long term. A second multifocal GBM model, in which bilateral GBMs were implanted simultaneously and only the right tumor mass was treated with AdFlt3L and AdTK, also demonstrated long-term survival. While no significant difference in survival was found between unifocal and multifocal GBM-bearing animals treated with AdFlt3L and AdTK, both treatments were statistically different from the saline-treated control group (p < 0.05). Our results demonstrate that combination therapy with AdFlt3L and AdTK can eradicate multifocal brain tumor disease in a syngeneic, intracranial GBM model.
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- Gwendalyn D King
- Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles 90048, USA
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Rhim JH, Tosato G. Targeting the Tumor Vasculature to Improve the Efficacy of Oncolytic Virus Therapy. J Natl Cancer Inst 2007; 99:1739-41. [DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djm234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Fulci G, Dmitrieva N, Gianni D, Fontana EJ, Pan X, Lu Y, Kaufman CS, Kaur B, Lawler SE, Lee RJ, Marsh CB, Brat DJ, van Rooijen N, Rachamimov AS, Hochberg FH, Weissleder R, Martuza RL, Chiocca EA. Depletion of peripheral macrophages and brain microglia increases brain tumor titers of oncolytic viruses. Cancer Res 2007; 67:9398-406. [PMID: 17909049 PMCID: PMC2850558 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-1063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Clinical trials have proven oncolytic virotherapy to be safe but not effective. We have shown that oncolytic viruses (OV) injected into intracranial gliomas established in rodents are rapidly cleared, and this is associated with up-regulation of markers (CD68 and CD163) of cells of monocytic lineage (monocytes/microglia/macrophages). However, it is unclear whether these cells directly impede intratumoral persistence of OV through phagocytosis and whether they infiltrate the tumor from the blood or the brain parenchyma. To investigate this, we depleted phagocytes with clodronate liposomes (CL) in vivo through systemic delivery and ex vivo in brain slice models with gliomas. Interestingly, systemic CL depleted over 80% of peripheral CD163+ macrophages in animal spleen and peripheral blood, thereby decreasing intratumoral infiltration of these cells, but CD68+ cells were unchanged. Intratumoral viral titers increased 5-fold. In contrast, ex vivo CL depleted only CD68+ cells from brain slices, and intratumoral viral titers increased 10-fold. These data indicate that phagocytosis by both peripheral CD163+ and brain-resident CD68+ cells infiltrating tumor directly affects viral clearance from tumor. Thus, improved therapeutic efficacy may require modulation of these innate immune cells. In support of this new therapeutic paradigm, we observed intratumoral up-regulation of CD68+ and CD163+ cells following treatment with OV in a patient with glioblastoma.
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- Giulia Fulci
- Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service, and Center for Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital-East Building, Charlestown, Massachusetts
- Brain Tumor Research Center, Neurosurgery Service, Simches Research Building, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio
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- Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service, and Center for Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital-East Building, Charlestown, Massachusetts
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- Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service, and Center for Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital-East Building, Charlestown, Massachusetts
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- Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service, and Center for Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital-East Building, Charlestown, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Brain Tumor Research Center, Neurosurgery Service, Simches Research Building, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service, and Center for Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital-East Building, Charlestown, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio
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Smith KD, Shao MY, Posner MC, Weichselbaum RR. Tumor genotype determines susceptibility to oncolytic herpes simplex virus mutants: strategies for clinical application. Future Oncol 2007; 3:545-56. [DOI: 10.2217/14796694.3.5.545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Oncolytic Herpes simplex virus -1 (HSV-1) mutants based on deletion of the γ134.5 gene are promising therapies for cancer. Δγ134.5 mutant replication and cytolysis is tumor cell type specific and severely attenuated in normal tissues. The basis for attenuation lies in the activation of the protein kinase R (PKR)-mediated host cellular defense pathway, which inhibits protein synthesis in infected cells. Tumor cells which overexpress MAPK kinase (MEK) activity support robust replication of Δγ134.5 mutants via MEK-mediated inhibition of PKR, resulting in tumor oncolysis. Systemic delivery of γ134.5 mutants may allow selective targeting and destruction of metastases from a broad range of solid human tumors that overexpress MEK. Barriers to systemic HSV-1 oncolytic therapy include innate immunity, adaptive immunity and hepatic adsorption. Immunomodulating agents may overcome innate immunity to HSV-1-based vectors. Preclinical data combined with the pervasiveness of HSV-1 despite widespread immunity suggest that preexisting immunity may not eliminate oncolytic efficacy. In the future, biopsy-determined tumor MEK status may select patients for Δγ134.5 oncolytic therapy.
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- Kerrington D Smith
- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Surgical Oncology, 1515 Holcombe Blvd. Unit 444, Houston TX 77030, USA
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- University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of General Surgery, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 6040, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 5031, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Center for Advanced Medicine 1338, Department of Radiation & Cellular Oncology, 5758 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 9006, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Li H, Zeng Z, Fu X, Zhang X. Coadministration of a Herpes Simplex Virus-2–Based Oncolytic Virus and Cyclophosphamide Produces a Synergistic Antitumor Effect and Enhances Tumor-Specific Immune Responses. Cancer Res 2007; 67:7850-5. [PMID: 17699791 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-1087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Despite their unique property of selective replication and propagation in tumor tissues, oncolytic viruses have had only limited antitumor effects in cancer patients. One of the major reasons is probably the host's immune defense mechanisms, which can restrict the ability of the virus to replicate and spread within tumors. The innate immune system, which can be rapidly activated during virus infection, likely plays a more pivotal antiviral role than does acquired immunity, as the antitumor effect of an oncolytic virus is mainly generated during the acute phase of virus replication. To exploit the potential of cyclophosphamide, a cancer chemotherapeutic drug that also inhibits innate immune responses, to enhance the activity of oncolytic viruses, we evaluated the effect of coadministration of this drug with a herpes simplex virus-2-based oncolytic virus (FusOn-H2) against Lewis lung carcinoma, which is only semipermissive to infection with FusOn-H2. This strategy synergistically enhanced the antitumor effect against lung carcinoma growing in mice. It also potentiated the ability of FusOn-H2 to induce tumor-specific immune responses. Together, our results suggest that coadministration of FusOn-H2 with cyclophosphamide would be a feasible way to enhance the antitumor effects of this oncolytic virus in future clinical trials.
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- Hongtao Li
- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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The advent of gene therapy in the early 1990's raised expectations for brain tumor therapies; however, whereas clinical trials in patients with malignant gliomas provided evidence of safety, therapeutic benefit was not convincing. These early forays resembled the historical introductions of other therapies that seemed promising, only to fail in human trials. Nevertheless, re-study in the laboratory and retesting in iterative laboratory-clinic processes enabled therapies with strong biological rationales to ultimately show evidence of success in humans and become accepted. Examples, such as organ transplantation, monoclonal antibody therapy and antiangiogenic therapy, provide solace that a strategy's initial lack of success in humans provides an opportunity for its further refinement in the laboratory and development of solutions that will translate into patient success stories. The authors herein summarize results from clinical trials of gene therapy for malignant gliomas, and discuss the influence of these results on present thought in preclinical research.
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- Giulia Fulci
- Brain Tumor Research Center, Simches Research Building CRPZN-3800, Neurosurgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Breitbach CJ, Paterson JM, Lemay CG, Falls TJ, McGuire A, Parato KA, Stojdl DF, Daneshmand M, Speth K, Kirn D, McCart JA, Atkins H, Bell JC. Targeted inflammation during oncolytic virus therapy severely compromises tumor blood flow. Mol Ther 2007; 15:1686-93. [PMID: 17579581 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mt.6300215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are selected or designed to eliminate malignancies by direct infection and lysis of cancer cells. In contrast to this concept of direct tumor lysis by viral infection, we observed that a significant portion of the in vivo tumor killing activity of two OVs, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and vaccinia virus is caused by indirect killing of uninfected tumor cells. Shortly after administering the oncolytic virus we observed limited virus infection, coincident with a loss of blood flow to the interior of the tumor that correlated with induction of apoptosis in tumor cells. Transcript profiling of tumors showed that virus infection resulted in a dramatic transcriptional activation of pro-inflammatory genes including the neutrophil chemoattractants CXCL1 and CXCL5. Immunohistochemical examination of infected tumors revealed infiltration by neutrophils correlating with chemokine induction. Depletion of neutrophils in animals prior to VSV administration eliminated uninfected tumor cell apoptosis and permitted more extensive replication and spreading of the virus throughout the tumor. Taken all together, these results indicate that targeted recruitment of neutrophils to infected tumor beds enhances the killing of malignant cells. We propose that activation of inflammatory cells can be used for enhancing the effectiveness of oncolytic virus therapeutics, and that this approach should influence the planning of therapeutic doses.
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- Caroline J Breitbach
- Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Vähä-Koskela MJ, Heikkilä JE, Hinkkanen AE. Oncolytic viruses in cancer therapy. Cancer Lett 2007; 254:178-216. [PMID: 17383089 PMCID: PMC7126325 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2007.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2006] [Revised: 02/01/2007] [Accepted: 02/05/2007] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Oncolytic virotherapy is a promising form of gene therapy for cancer, employing nature’s own agents to find and destroy malignant cells. The purpose of this review is to provide an introduction to this very topical field of research and to point out some of the current observations, insights and ideas circulating in the literature. We have strived to acknowledge as many different oncolytic viruses as possible to give a broader picture of targeting cancer using viruses. Some of the newest additions to the panel of oncolytic viruses include the avian adenovirus, foamy virus, myxoma virus, yaba-like disease virus, echovirus type 1, bovine herpesvirus 4, Saimiri virus, feline panleukopenia virus, Sendai virus and the non-human coronaviruses. Although promising, virotherapy still faces many obstacles that need to be addressed, including the emergence of virus-resistant tumor cells.
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- Markus J.V. Vähä-Koskela
- Åbo Akademi University, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy and Turku Immunology Centre, Turku, Finland
- Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Turku, Finland
- Corresponding author. Address: Åbo Akademi University, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy and Turku Immunology Centre, Turku, Finland. Tel.: +358 2 215 4018; fax: +358 2 215 4745.
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- Åbo Akademi University, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy and Turku Immunology Centre, Turku, Finland
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- Åbo Akademi University, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy and Turku Immunology Centre, Turku, Finland
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Kanai R, Eguchi K, Takahashi M, Goldman S, Okano H, Kawase T, Yazaki T. Enhanced therapeutic efficacy of oncolytic herpes vector G207 against human non-small cell lung cancer--expression of an RNA-binding protein, Musashi1, as a marker for the tailored gene therapy. J Gene Med 2007; 8:1329-40. [PMID: 16955534 DOI: 10.1002/jgm.965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Oncolytic herpes vectors like G207 have shown considerable promise in the treatment of solid tumors, but their potency must be enhanced for the full achievement of therapeutic efficacy. Deletion of the innate gamma34.5 gene made these vectors extremely safe, but their efficacy was also severely attenuated. Use of tumor-specific promoters is one method to direct toxicity and enhance efficacy against tumors. Recently, Musashi1 has been shown expressed in some tumor tissues. METHODS Eleven human cancer cell lines including five non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) were investigated. Musashi1 mRNA expression was examined by RT-PCR analysis. Western blotting was also performed. Transcriptional activity of P/musashi1 in NSCLCs was assayed by GFP reporter plasmids. Then we constructed a defective amplicon vector containing musashi1 promoter/ICP34.5 with G207 as helper virus (dvM345). In vitro cytotoxicity against NSCLCs and growth characteristics of helper virus were examined. A Lu-99 subcutaneous tumor model was used in an animal study. The tumor volume treated with G207 alone or dvM345 was measured. RESULTS Musashi1 mRNA was detected in four cell lines. Two in five NSCLCs were positive, and P/musashi1 was proved functional within them. Against these cell lines, dvM345 showed enhanced cytotoxicity, and helper viral growth was augmented. A subcutaneous tumor study confirmed the enhanced therapeutic efficacy of G207 by dvM345 without compromising safety. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that Musashi1 might be involved in the development of several carcinomas including NSCLC. In the context of oncolytic herpes vector strategy, the P/musashi1-ICP34.5 method could be used for the treatment of cancers expressing Musashi1.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics
- Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/genetics
- Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/metabolism
- Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/therapy
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Female
- Genetic Therapy/methods
- Genetic Vectors
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms/genetics
- Lung Neoplasms/metabolism
- Lung Neoplasms/therapy
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Oncolytic Virotherapy/methods
- Oncolytic Viruses/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- RNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Transplantation, Heterologous
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- Ryuichi Kanai
- Molecular Neurosurgery Laboratory, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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Huch M, Abate-Daga D, Roig JM, González JR, Fabregat J, Sosnowski B, Mazo A, Fillat C. Targeting the CYP2B1/Cyclophosphamide Suicide System to Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors Results in a Potent Antitumoral Response in Pancreatic Cancer Models. Hum Gene Ther 2006; 17:1187-200. [PMID: 17069538 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2006.17.1187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The CYP2B1/cyclophosphamide (CPA) suicide gene therapy approach has been shown to be highly promising in clinical trials for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. However, delivering the therapeutic gene to a sufficient number of tumor cells able to trigger a complete response remains a challenge. Target-specific delivery of adenovirus to fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) has been obtained in a variety of tumor models and has been shown to highly increase transduction efficiency. In the present paper we have tested the therapeutic outcome of retargeting the adenoviral vector, Ad-CYP2B1, to FGFRs, using an FGF2-Fab' conjugate, in pancreatic cancer models. First, we show a heterogeneous subcellular distribution of overexpressed FGFR-1 in pancreatic cancer cells. Higher transduction efficiency was observed in five of the six cell lines studied after FGF2-AdGFPLuc infection. Interestingly, an association between FGFR-1 membrane cell expression and viral entry was found. Moreover, tumors injected with FGF2-AdGFPLuc showed enhanced and persistent transgene expression. Importantly, we demonstrate the relevant enhanced cytotoxic effect of the FGF2-Ad-CYP2B]/CPA system in four of the six cell lines studied. Moreover, retargeting Ad-CYP2B1/CPA to FGFRs resulted in a potent antitumoral effect and in an increased survival rate, in two human pancreatic xenograft models. Thus, our results indicate that redirecting adenoviruses to FGFRs highly increases the potency of the suicide system CYP2B1/CPA. Consequently, it may constitute a promising approach to the treatment of patients with pancreatic tumors, in which a high proportion of FGF receptors precisely localize to the plasma membrane.
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- Meritxell Huch
- Programa Gens i Malaltia, Centre de Regulació Genòmica-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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Kim JH, Oh JY, Park BH, Lee DE, Kim JS, Park HE, Roh MS, Je JE, Yoon JH, Thorne SH, Kirn D, Hwang TH. Systemic armed oncolytic and immunologic therapy for cancer with JX-594, a targeted poxvirus expressing GM-CSF. Mol Ther 2006; 14:361-70. [PMID: 16905462 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2006.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2006] [Revised: 05/16/2006] [Accepted: 05/16/2006] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Targeted oncolytic viruses and immunostimulatory therapeutics are being developed as novel cancer treatment platforms. These approaches can be combined through the expression of immunostimulatory cytokines from targeted viruses, including adenoviruses and herpesviruses. Although intratumoral injection of such viruses has been associated with tumor growth inhibition, eradication of distant metastases was not reported. The major limitations for this approach to date have been (1) inefficient intravenous virus delivery to tumors and (2) the lack of predictive, immunocompetent preclinical models. To overcome these hurdles, we developed JX-594, a targeted, thymidine kinase(-) vaccinia virus expressing human GM-CSF (hGM-CSF), for intravenous (i.v.) delivery. We evaluated two immunocompetent liver tumor models: a rabbit model with reproducible, time-dependent metastases to the lungs and a carcinogen-induced rat liver cancer model. Intravenous JX-594 was well tolerated and had highly significant efficacy, including complete responses, against intrahepatic primary tumors in both models. In addition, whereas lung metastases developed in all control rabbits, none of the i.v. JX-594-treated rabbits developed detectable metastases. Tumor-specific virus replication and gene expression, systemically detectable levels of hGM-CSF, and tumor-infiltrating CTLs were also demonstrated. JX-594 holds promise as an i.v.-delivered, targeted virotherapeutic. These two tumor models hold promise for the optimization of this approach.
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- J H Kim
- Department of Pharmacology and MRCCMT, Dong-A University Medical College, Busan 604-714, South Korea
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Lun X, Senger DL, Alain T, Oprea A, Parato K, Stojdl D, Lichty B, Power A, Johnston RN, Hamilton M, Parney I, Bell JC, Forsyth PA. Effects of intravenously administered recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV(deltaM51)) on multifocal and invasive gliomas. J Natl Cancer Inst 2006; 98:1546-57. [PMID: 17077357 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND An ideal virus for the treatment of cancer should have effective delivery into multiple sites within the tumor, evade immune responses, produce rapid viral replication, spread within the tumor, and infect multiple tumors. Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) has been shown to be an effective oncolytic virus in a variety of tumor models, and mutations in the matrix (M) protein enhance VSV's effectiveness in animal models. METHODS We evaluated the susceptibility of 14 glioma cell lines to infection and killing by mutant strain VSV(deltaM51), which contains a single-amino acid deletion in the M protein. We also examined the activity and safety of this strain against the U87 and U118 experimental models of human malignant glioma in nude mice and analyzed the distribution of the virus in the brains of U87 tumor-bearing mice using fluorescence labeling. Finally, we examined the effect of VSV(deltaM51) on 15 primary human gliomas cultured from surgical specimens. All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS All 14 glioma cell lines were susceptible to VSV(deltaM51) infection and killing. Intratumoral administration of VSV(deltaM51) produced marked regression of malignant gliomas in nude mice. When administered systemically, live VSV(deltaM51) virus, as compared with dead virus, statistically significantly prolonged survival of mice with unilateral U87 tumors (median survival: 113 versus 46 days, P = .0001) and bilateral U87 tumors (median survival: 73 versus 46 days, P = .0025). VSV(deltaM51) infected multifocal gliomas, invasive glioma cells that migrated beyond the main glioma, and all 15 primary human gliomas. There was no evidence of toxicity. CONCLUSIONS Systemically delivered VSV(deltaM51) was an effective and safe oncolytic agent against laboratory models of multifocal and invasive malignant gliomas, the most challenging clinical manifestations of this disease.
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- XueQing Lun
- Department of Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Bozac A, Berto E, Vasquez F, Grandi P, Caputo A, Manservigi R, Ensoli B, Marconi P. Expression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 tat from a replication-deficient herpes simplex type 1 vector induces antigen-specific T cell responses. Vaccine 2006; 24:7148-58. [PMID: 16884834 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.06.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2005] [Revised: 06/23/2006] [Accepted: 06/26/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Herpes simplex type-1 virus (HSV-1) based vectors have been widely used in different gene therapy approaches and also as experimental vaccines against HSV-1 infection. Recent advances in the HSV-1 technology do support the use of replication defective HSV-1 as vaccine vectors for delivery of foreign antigens. We have examined the ability of a recombinant replication-defective HSV-1 vector expressing the HIV-1 Tat protein to induce long-term Tat-specific immune responses in the Balb/c murine model. The results showed that vector administration by the subcutaneous route elicits anti-Tat specific T-cell mediated immune responses in mice characterized by the presence of the Tat-specific cytotoxic activity and production of high levels of IFN-gamma.
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- Aleksandra Bozac
- University of Ferrara, Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, Section of Microbiology, Via Luigi Borsari 46, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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Huch M, Abate-Daga D, Roig JM, González JR, Fabregat J, Sosnowski B, Mazo A, Fillat C. Targeting the CYP2B1/Cyclophosphamide Suicide System to Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors Results in a Potent Antitumoral Response in Pancreatic Cancer Models. Hum Gene Ther 2006. [DOI: 10.1089/hum.2006.17.ft-259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Lamfers MLM, Fulci G, Gianni D, Tang Y, Kurozumi K, Kaur B, Moeniralm S, Saeki Y, Carette JE, Weissleder R, Vandertop WP, van Beusechem VW, Dirven CMF, Chiocca EA. Cyclophosphamide increases transgene expression mediated by an oncolytic adenovirus in glioma-bearing mice monitored by bioluminescence imaging. Mol Ther 2006; 14:779-88. [PMID: 16996314 PMCID: PMC2819149 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2006.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2005] [Revised: 08/07/2006] [Accepted: 08/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Approaches to improve the oncolytic potency of replication-competent adenoviruses include the insertion of therapeutic transgenes into the viral genome. Little is known about the levels and duration of in vivo transgene expression by cells infected with such "armed" viruses. Using a tumor-selective adenovirus encoding firefly luciferase (AdDelta24CMV-Luc) we investigated these questions in an intracranial mouse model for malignant glioma. Luciferase expression was detected by bioluminescence imaging, and the effect of the immunosuppressive agent cyclophosphamide (CPA) on transgene expression was assessed. Intratumoral AdDelta24CMV-Luc injection led to a localized dose-dependent expression of luciferase. Surprisingly, this expression decreased rapidly during the course of 14 days. In contrast, mice injected with nonreplicating Ad.CMV-Luc demonstrated stable transgene expression. Treatment of mice with CPA in combination with AdDelta24CMV-Luc retarded the loss of transgene expression. Staining of mouse brains for inflammatory cells demonstrated decreased tumor infiltration by immune cells in CPA-treated mice. Moreover, in immunodeficient NOD/SCID mice loss of transgene expression was less rapid and not prevented by CPA treatment. Together, our data demonstrate that transgene expression and viral replication decrease rapidly after intratumoral injection of oncolytic adenovirus in mouse brains and that treatment with the immunomodulator CPA prolongs viral-mediated gene expression.
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MESH Headings
- Adenoviridae/genetics
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic/analysis
- Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating/administration & dosage
- Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating/pharmacology
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cyclophosphamide/administration & dosage
- Cyclophosphamide/pharmacology
- Female
- Genetic Vectors/administration & dosage
- Genetic Vectors/genetics
- Glioma/genetics
- Glioma/metabolism
- Glioma/pathology
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Leukocyte Common Antigens/analysis
- Luciferases/genetics
- Luciferases/metabolism
- Luminescent Measurements/methods
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, Nude
- Mice, SCID
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Oncolytic Viruses/genetics
- Transgenes/genetics
- Transplantation, Heterologous
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- Martine L M Lamfers
- Department of Neurosurgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1007 MB, The Netherlands.
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Fulci G, Breymann L, Gianni D, Kurozomi K, Rhee SS, Yu J, Kaur B, Louis DN, Weissleder R, Caligiuri MA, Chiocca EA. Cyclophosphamide enhances glioma virotherapy by inhibiting innate immune responses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:12873-8. [PMID: 16908838 PMCID: PMC1568940 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605496103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Clinical trials are testing oncolytic viruses (OVs) as therapies for cancer. We have shown that animals that have brain tumors and are treated with a herpes simplex virus (HSV)-derived OV live significantly longer when cyclophosphamide (CPA) is preadministered. Here, we explore the mechanisms behind this finding. In a syngeneic rat glioma model, intratumoral HSV administration is associated with rapid increase of natural killer cells, microglia/macrophages (CD68+ and CD163+), and IFN-gamma. Pretreatment with CPA enhances HSV replication and oncolysis and reduces an HSV-mediated increase in CD68+ and CD163+ cells and intratumoral IFN-gamma. Molecular imaging shows CPA pretreatment to inhibit HSV-induced infiltration of tumor-associated phagocytic cells. Our results reveal molecular and cellular mechanisms that inhibit intratumoral spread of HSV and suggest a therapeutic path for improving the efficacy of virotherapy as a treatment for cancer.
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- Giulia Fulci
- *Dardinger Center for Neuro-Oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210
- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service
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- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service
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- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service
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- *Dardinger Center for Neuro-Oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH 43210
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- *Dardinger Center for Neuro-Oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Pathology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, East Building, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129; and
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- *Dardinger Center for Neuro-Oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210
- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service
- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH 43210
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Peltoniemi J, Broberg EK, Nygårdas M, Erälinna JP, Waris M, Hukkanen V. Enhancement of Th2 responses to replicative herpes simplex virus type 1 vectors by immunomodulative chemotherapy. Int Immunopharmacol 2006; 6:817-29. [PMID: 16546713 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2005.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2005] [Revised: 11/21/2005] [Accepted: 12/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Replicating, neuroattenuated gamma(1)34.5-deleted herpes simplex virus (HSV)-vectors are tools for experimental therapy of gliomas and autoimmune diseases. Immunomodulative treatment with Linomide (quinoline-3-carboxamide) has earlier been shown to facilitate some virus infections and reduce autoimmunity. Now we aimed at elucidating the safety of immunomodulatory therapy during infection of mice with HSV vectors. We focused on immunological and virological changes in the nervous system. BALB/c mice were infected intranasally with the HSV-1 recombinant viruses R3616, R3659 and R8306 (with mouse IL-4 transgene) and either treated with Linomide or left untreated as control groups. Treatment with Linomide was started 7 days before infection. Virological analysis consisted of viral culture and PCR for HSV DNA. Cytokine responses were studied with quantitative RT-PCR and EIA. Immunomodulatory treatment did not change the clinical course of infections. The expression of IL-4 and IL-10 in brains increased in Linomide-treated mice, particularly in infection with R8306. The expression of IL-23p19 was decreased in brains in Linomide-treated, vector-infected mice, in comparison with nontreated but virus-infected animals. Immunomodulatory treatment did not increase the viral load in brains in any of the mouse groups infected with R3616, R3659 or R8306. Immunomodulative treatment with Linomide did not compromise the safety of replicating HSV-vectors, not even the one with IL-4 transgene, suggesting that combination of immunomodulation with virotherapy may be beneficial in the treatment of certain diseases of the central nervous system. Further investigations are needed to elucidate the effects of immunomodulatory therapy in order to improve vector survival and efficacy of gene therapy.
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- Jutta Peltoniemi
- Department of Virology, University of Turku, Kiinamyllynkatu 13, 20520 Turku, Finland.
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Cancer remains a serious threat to human health, causing over 500 000 deaths each year in US alone, exceeded only by heart diseases. Many new technologies are being developed to fight cancer, among which are gene therapies and oncolytic virotherapies. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a neurotropic DNA virus with many favorable properties both as a delivery vector for cancer therapeutic genes and as a backbone for oncolytic viruses. Herpes simplex virus type 1 is highly infectious, so HSV-1 vectors are efficient vehicles for the delivery of exogenous genetic materials to cells. The inherent cytotoxicity of this virus, if harnessed and made to be selective by genetic manipulations, makes this virus a good candidate for developing viral oncolytic approach. Furthermore, its large genome size, ability to infect cells with a high degree of efficiency, and the presence of an inherent replication controlling mechanism, the thymidine kinase gene, add to its potential capabilities. This review briefly summarizes the biology of HSV-1, examines various strategies that have been used to genetically modify the virus, and discusses preclinical as well as clinical results of the HSV-1-derived vectors in cancer treatment.
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- Y Shen
- Mary Crowley Medical Research Center, Dallas, TX 75201, USA
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Kambara H, Saeki Y, Chiocca EA. Cyclophosphamide allows for in vivo dose reduction of a potent oncolytic virus. Cancer Res 2006; 65:11255-8. [PMID: 16357128 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-2278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The success of cancer virotherapy depends on its efficacy versus toxicity profile in human clinical trials. Progress towards clinical trials can be hampered by the relatively elevated doses of oncolytic viruses administered in animal models to achieve an anticancer effect and by the even higher doses required in humans to approximate an animal bioequivalent dose. Such elevated doses of injected viral proteins may also lead to undesirable toxicities and are also very difficult to produce in a biotechnological setting. We report that a relatively potent herpes simplex virus type 1 oncolytic virus (rQNestin34.5) produces 45% survivors at a dose of 3 x 10(4) plaque-forming units (pfu) in a 9-day-old mouse model of human glioma. Unlike our previous findings with less potent oncolytic viruses, though, the preadministration of cyclophosphamide did not enhance this survival or affect oncolytic virus tumor distribution and tumor volume. However, when oncolytic virus doses were reduced (3 x 10(3) and 3 x 10(2) pfu), cyclophosphamide significantly enhanced both animal survival and oncolytic virus tumor distribution and also reduced tumor volumes. These findings thus show that cyclophosphamide allows for dose reduction of doses of a relatively potent oncolytic virus, a finding with implications for the development of clinical trials.
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- Hirokazu Kambara
- Dardinger Center for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, 43210, USA
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Tyminski E, Leroy S, Terada K, Finkelstein DM, Hyatt JL, Danks MK, Potter PM, Saeki Y, Chiocca EA. Brain tumor oncolysis with replication-conditional herpes simplex virus type 1 expressing the prodrug-activating genes, CYP2B1 and secreted human intestinal carboxylesterase, in combination with cyclophosphamide and irinotecan. Cancer Res 2005; 65:6850-7. [PMID: 16061668 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-0154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The treatment of malignant glioma is currently ineffective. Oncolytic viruses are being explored as a means to selectively lyse tumor cells in the brain. We have engineered a mutant herpes simplex virus type 1 with deletions in the viral UL39 and gamma(1)34.5 genes and an insertion of the two prodrug activating genes, CYP2B1 and secreted human intestinal carboxylesterase. Each of these can convert the inactive prodrugs, cyclophosphamide and irinotecan (CPT-11), into their active metabolites, respectively. This new oncolytic virus (MGH2) displays increased antitumor efficacy against human glioma cells both in vitro and in vivo when combined with cyclophosphamide and CPT-11. Importantly, cyclophosphamide, CPT-11, or the combination of cyclophosphamide and CPT-11 does not significantly affect oncolytic virus replication. Therefore, MGH2 provides effective multimodal therapy for gliomas in preclinical models when combined with these chemotherapy agents.
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- Edyta Tyminski
- Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service and Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
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Benencia F, Courrèges MC, Conejo-García JR, Mohamed-Hadley A, Zhang L, Buckanovich RJ, Carroll R, Fraser N, Coukos G. HSV oncolytic therapy upregulates interferon-inducible chemokines and recruits immune effector cells in ovarian cancer. Mol Ther 2005; 12:789-802. [PMID: 15925544 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2005.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2004] [Revised: 03/18/2005] [Accepted: 03/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Cooperation between oncolytic herpes simplex virus (HSV) and host effector immune mechanisms has been previously described. In the present study, we investigated the mechanism underlying such cooperation in a murine syngeneic model of ovarian carcinoma. Therapeutic administration of HSV-1716, a replication-restricted mutant, resulted in significant reduction of tumor growth and a significant survival advantage. Intratumoral injection of HSV-1716 induced expression of IFN-gamma, MIG, and IP-10 in the tumor. This was accompanied by a significant increase in the number of tumor-associated NK and CD8+ T cells expressing CXCR3 and CD25. Ascites from HSV-1716-treated animals efficiently induced in vitro migration of NK and CD8+ T cells, which was dependent on the presence of MIG and IP-10. Murine monocytes and dendritic cells (DCs) were responsible for the production of MIG and IP-10 upon HSV-1716 infection. In monocytes, this was partially abrogated by neutralizing antibodies against IFN-alpha and -beta, thus indicating a role for type-1 IFNs in the reported effect. Human ovarian carcinomas showed high numbers of monocytes and DCs. Upon HSV-1716 infection, human monocyte-derived DCs produced large amounts of IFN-gamma and upregulated MIG and IP-10 expression. These results indicate that HSV-1716 induces an inflammatory response that may facilitate antitumor immune response upon oncolytic therapy.
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- Fabian Benencia
- Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Shillitoe EJ, Pellenz C. Factors That Limit the Effectiveness of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 for Treatment of Oral Cancer in Mice. Clin Cancer Res 2005; 11:3109-16. [PMID: 15837767 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-04-2302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Although the growth of experimental oral cancers can be inhibited by infection with the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), the effect is incomplete. To define factors that might limit the effectiveness of the virus, we examined the roles of the innate immune system and the replication status of the tumor cells. AT-84 tumors were induced in strains of mice that had specific immune defects and were treated with the virus. Explanted tumors and tumor cells in culture were also infected. No differences in viral replication or in the effect of virus on the tumor were seen between mice with a lack of T or B lymphocytes, natural killer cells, phagocytic spleen cells, or complement. The virus did not replicate significantly more in tumors that were maintained as explants. Immediately after recovery of cells from a tumor the proportion of cells in the S phase was around 18%, and replication of virus in those cells was very limited. After 3 weeks in culture, the proportion in S had increased to 50% and both the recovery of virus from the cells and the toxic effect of the virus on the cells had increased significantly. The innate immune system thus seemed to have a minimal effect on replication of HSV-1 when used as an oncolytic virus for oral cancers in mice. Instead, the fraction of cells in the S phase was important. Because human oral cancers, like mouse tumors, have a low fraction of cells in the S phase, it is likely that the in vivo use of HSV-1 as cancer therapy will be limited by the replication of the virus.
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- Edward J Shillitoe
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY College of Medicine, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA.
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Ries SJ, Brandts CH. Oncolytic viruses for the treatment of cancer: current strategies and clinical trials. Drug Discov Today 2004; 9:759-68. [PMID: 15450242 DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6446(04)03221-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Tumor-selective replicating viruses offer appealing advantages over conventional cancer therapy and are a promising new approach for the treatment of human cancer. The development of virotherapeutics is based on several strategies that each provides a different foundation for tumor-selective targeting and replication. Results emerging from clinical trials with oncolytic viruses demonstrate the safety and feasibility of a virotherapeutic approach and provide early indications of efficacy. Strategies to overcome potential obstacles and challenges to virotherapy are currently being explored and are discussed here. Importantly, the successful development of systemic administration of oncolytic viruses will extend the range of tumors that can be treated using this novel treatment modality.
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- Stefan J Ries
- University of Müster, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 33, D-48129 Münster, Germany.
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Zinn KR, Szalai AJ, Stargel A, Krasnykh V, Chaudhuri TR. Bioluminescence imaging reveals a significant role for complement in liver transduction following intravenous delivery of adenovirus. Gene Ther 2004; 11:1482-6. [PMID: 15295616 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The effect of complement on transgene expression was evaluated in vivo and in vitro using mice lacking complement components. Complement component 3 (C3) deficient mice (C3-/-) and appropriate wild-type controls were intravenously injected with a replication incompetent, luciferase-expressing normal Ad5 (Ad5Luc1), or fibritin-fiber Ad5 (Ad5FFLuc1). Repeated, noninvasive bioluminescence imaging was conducted over 35 days. Our data show for the first time that C3 facilitates both short- and long-term hepatic expression of luciferase following systemic delivery. C3-/- mice showed significantly less (P < 0.05) luciferase expression in their liver than treatment-matched wild-type mice when 2.3 x 10(9) (Ad5Luc1) and 4.0 x 10(9) (Ad5Luc1 or Ad5FFLuc1) viral particles (v.p.) were infused. The maximal difference in luciferase activity between C3-/- and wild-type mice was 99-fold difference at 3 days for the 2.3 x 10(9) v.p. dose (Ad5Luc1), 35-fold at 13 days for the 4.0 x 10(9) v.p. dose (Ad5Luc1), and 22-fold at 13 days for the 4.0 x 10(9) v.p. dose (Ad5FFLuc1). Preincubation of Ad5Luc1 with wild-type, C1q-/-, or factor B (FB) deficient mouse sera for 5 min significantly (P < 0.05) increased transduction of mouse liver cells, as compared to preincubation with C3-/- sera or PBS. These results suggest the classical or alternate complement pathway enhances Ad5-mediated liver transduction.
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- K R Zinn
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
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Wakimoto H, Fulci G, Tyminski E, Chiocca EA. Altered expression of antiviral cytokine mRNAs associated with cyclophosphamide's enhancement of viral oncolysis. Gene Ther 2004; 11:214-23. [PMID: 14712306 PMCID: PMC2825886 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are being used as anticancer agents in preclinical and clinical trials. Propagation of OVs inside infected tumors is critical to their efficacy and is mediated by the productive generation of progeny OVs within infected tumor cells. In turn, this progeny can spread the infection to other tumor cells in successive rounds of oncolysis. Previously, we had found that, in rats, cyclophosphamide (CPA) pretreatment increased infection of brain tumors by an intra-arterially administered herpes simplex virus type 1 OV, because it inhibited activation of complement responses, mediated by innate IgM. We also have previously shown that other pharmacologic inhibitors of complement, such as cobra venom factor (CVF), allowed for increased infection. However, in these studies, further inhibition of complement responses by CVF did not result in additional infection of brain tumor cells or in propagation of OV to surrounding tumor cells. In this study, we sought to determine if CPA did lead to increased infection/propagation from initially infected tumor cells. Unlike our results with CVF, we find that CPA administration does result in a time-dependent increase in infection of tumor cells, suggestive of increased propagation, in both syngeneic and athymic models of brain tumors. This increase was due to increased survival of OV within infected tumors and brain surrounding tumors. CPA's effect was not due to a direct enhancement of viral replication in tumor cells, rather was associated with its immunosuppressive effects. RT-PCR analysis revealed that CPA administration resulted in impaired mRNA production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of several cytokines (interferons alpha/beta, interferon gamma, TNFalpha, IL-15, and IL-18) with anti-HSV function. These findings suggest that the CPA-mediated facilitation of OV intraneoplastic propagation is associated with a general decrease of antiviral cytokines mRNAs in PBMCs. These findings not only suggest a potential benefit for the addition of transient immunosuppression in clinical applications of oncolytic HSV therapy, but also suggest that innate immunomodulatory pathways may be amenable to manipulation, in order to increase OV propagation and survival within infected tumors.
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- H Wakimoto
- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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