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Nanomedicinal strategies as efficient therapeutic interventions for delivery of cancer vaccines. Semin Cancer Biol 2019; 69:43-51. [PMID: 31618687 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 10/06/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The applications of gene therapy-based treatment of cancers were started almost two decades back as a boon over the chemotherapeutic treatment strategies. Gene therapy helps in correcting the genetic sequences for treatment of cancers, thus also acts like a vaccine to induce the cellular and humoral immunity. However, the cancer vaccines typically suffer from a series of biopharmaceutical challenges due to poor solubility, low systemic availability and lack of targeting ability. Owing to these challenges, the physicians and pharmaceutical scientists have explored the applications of nanocarriers as quite promising systems for effective treatment against the tumors. A series of nanotherapeutic systems are available to date for diverse drug therapy applications. Systematic understanding on the preparation, evaluation and application of nanomedicines as a carrier system for delivering the cancer vaccines is highly important. The present review article provides an in-depth understanding on the challenges associated with cancer vaccine delivery and current opportunities with diverse nanomedicinal carriers being available for treatment of cancers.
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Esau D. Viral Causes of Lymphoma: The History of Epstein-Barr Virus and Human T-Lymphotropic Virus 1. Virology (Auckl) 2017; 8:1178122X17731772. [PMID: 28983187 PMCID: PMC5621661 DOI: 10.1177/1178122x17731772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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In 1964, Epstein, Barr, and Achong published a report outlining their discovery of viral particles in lymphoblasts isolated from a patient with Burkitt lymphoma. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the first human cancer virus to be described, and its discovery paved the way for further investigations into the oncogenic potential of viruses. In the decades following the discovery of EBV, multinational research efforts led to the discovery of further viral causes of various human cancers. Lymphomas are perhaps the cancer type that is most closely associated with oncogenic viruses: infection with EBV, human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8, and hepatitis C virus have all been associated with lymphomagenesis. Lymphomas have also played an important role in the history of oncoviruses, as both the first human oncovirus (EBV) and the first human retrovirus (HTLV-1) were discovered through isolates taken from patients with unique lymphoma syndromes. The history of the discovery of these 2 key oncoviruses is presented here, and their impact on further medical research, using the specific example of HIV research, is briefly discussed.
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- Daniel Esau
- Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Hanke K, Hohn O, Bannert N. HERV-K(HML-2), a seemingly silent subtenant - but still waters run deep. APMIS 2016; 124:67-87. [PMID: 26818263 DOI: 10.1111/apm.12475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A large proportion of the human genome consists of endogenous retroviruses, some of which are well preserved, showing transcriptional activity, and expressing retroviral proteins. The HERV-K(HML-2) family represents the most intact members of these elements, with some having open and intact reading frames for viral proteins and the ability to form virus-like particles. Although generally suppressed in most healthy tissues by a variety of epigenetic processes and antiviral mechanisms, there is evidence that some members of this family are (at least partly) still active - particularly in certain stem cells and various tumors. This raises the possibility of their involvement in tumor induction or in developmental processes. In recent years, many new insights into this fascinating field have been attained, and this review focuses on new discoveries about coevolutionary events and intracellular defense mechanisms against HERV-K(HML-2) activity. We also describe what might occur when these mechanisms fail or become modulated by viral proteins or other viruses and discuss the new vistas opened up by the reconstitution of ancestral viral proteins and even complete HML-2 viruses.
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- Kirsten Hanke
- Department HIV and Other Retroviruses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Department HIV and Other Retroviruses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Department HIV and Other Retroviruses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Blackadar CB. Historical review of the causes of cancer. World J Clin Oncol 2016; 7:54-86. [PMID: 26862491 PMCID: PMC4734938 DOI: 10.5306/wjco.v7.i1.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Revised: 10/31/2015] [Accepted: 11/24/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In the early 1900s, numerous seminal publications reported that high rates of cancer occurred in certain occupations. During this period, work with infectious agents produced only meager results which seemed irrelevant to humans. Then in the 1980s ground breaking evidence began to emerge that a variety of viruses also cause cancer in humans. There is now sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans for human T-cell lymphotrophic virus, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, human papillomavirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and human herpes virus 8 according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Many other causes of cancer have also been identified by the IARC, which include: Sunlight, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, hormones, alcohol, parasites, fungi, bacteria, salted fish, wood dust, and herbs. The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research have determined additional causes of cancer, which include beta carotene, red meat, processed meats, low fibre diets, not breast feeding, obesity, increased adult height and sedentary lifestyles. In brief, a historical review of the discoveries of the causes of human cancer is presented with extended discussions of the difficulties encountered in identifying viral causes of cancer.
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Gallo RC. A historical personal perspective on human retroviruses and their infection of T cells. Transfusion 2014; 55:1-9. [PMID: 25413015 DOI: 10.1111/trf.12935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2014] [Revised: 09/29/2014] [Accepted: 09/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Robert C Gallo
- Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Global Virus Network, Baltimore, Maryland
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Mammerickx M, Burny A, Dekegel D, Ghysdael J, Kettmann R, Portetelle D. Study on the diagnosis of enzootic bovine leukosis by complement fixation. ZENTRALBLATT FUR VETERINARMEDIZIN. REIHE B. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. SERIES B 2010; 24:349-57. [PMID: 195423 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.1977.tb01009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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HTLV-1 was discovered in the US in 1979, and published in 1980. This was rapidly followed by four additional reports in early 1981 describing additional isolates, characterization of some of the HTLV-1 proteins, serological assays for specific antibodies indicative of HTLV-1 infection, and evidence for integrated DNA proviruses in infected cells. None of this early work was dependent upon or influenced by the subclassification of some T-cell malignancies as ATL (in Japan). Instead, I was stimulated by prior work from many investigators in the US and Europe on retroviruses which caused leukemia in animals and our discoveries were made possible by our technical approaches developed in the 1970s involving especially sensitive assays for RT as a surrogate marker for a retrovirus and our discovery of Il-2 which made it possible to culture human T cells. However, following our reports the same virus was isolated in Japan, and both groups provided evidence that HTLV-1 caused ATL, a subclassification of T-cell malignancies first recognized in Japan.
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Gallo RC. The discovery of the first human retrovirus: HTLV-1 and HTLV-2. Retrovirology 2005; 2:17. [PMID: 15743526 PMCID: PMC555587 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-2-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2005] [Accepted: 03/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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I describe here the history leading up to and including my laboratory's discovery of the first human retrovirus, HTLV-I, and its close relative, HTLV-II. My efforts were inspired by early work showing a retroviral etiology for leukemias in various animals, including non-human primates. My two main approaches were to develop criteria for and methods for detection of viral reverse transcriptase and to identify growth factors that could support the growth of hematopoietic cells. These efforts finally yielded success following the discovery of IL-2 and its use to culture adult T cell lymphoma/leukemia cells.
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- Robert C Gallo
- Institute of Human Virology University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute 701 E, Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202, USA.
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Kramme PM, Thomas CB, Schultz RD. Temporal stability of the virus load of cattle infected with bovine leukemia virus. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 1995; 45:347-54. [PMID: 7676615 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2427(94)05352-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The relative virus load of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infected cattle was measured by an immunoperoxidase infectivity assay (IPIA), and by immunoperoxidase staining of cultured leukocytes using a monoclonal antibody to the capsid protein (p24) of BLV. The results of paired sample data taken at different time points spanning 2-3 years show that BLV-infected cattle are stable regarding the amount of BLV produced by their peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Spearman's Rank Correlation demonstrated significant relationships between data from individual cattle taken at four different time points. In addition, this study documents the large range of variation in the virus load of individual cattle.
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- P M Kramme
- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA
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Van den Broeke A, Cleuter Y, Chen G, Portetelle D, Mammerickx M, Zagury D, Fouchard M, Coulombel L, Kettmann R, Burny A. Even transcriptionally competent proviruses are silent in bovine leukemia virus-induced sheep tumor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:9263-7. [PMID: 2848258 PMCID: PMC282719 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.23.9263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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To investigate the role of proviral integration and expression in cellular transformation induced by bovine leukemia virus (BLV), three BLV-induced tumors harboring a single proviral copy were selected upon restriction and hybridization analysis. Tumors 344 and 395 were shown to contain a full-size proviral copy, whereas in tumor 1345 the provirus appeared to be heavily deleted. RNA gel blot hybridization with an antisense RNA probe showed no transcription of the viral sequences in the fresh tumors or in sheep tumor cells growing in vitro. The proviruses were cloned and transfected in mammalian cell lines. Transient-expression experiments revealed that the complete proviruses were still able to express the trans-activating protein (Tat) as well as structural proteins, demonstrating that the nonexpression of a provirus in a tumor cell does not necessarily imply a structural alteration of the viral information. In contrast, sequence analysis of the provirus with a large deletion and transient-expression assays proved that this truncated provirus, isolated from a tumor, was unable to code for viral proteins. These data indicate that expression of viral genes, including tat, is not required for the maintenance of the transformed state.
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- A Van den Broeke
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Brussels, Belgium
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Miller JM, van der Maaten MJ. Bovine leukosis--its importance to the dairy industry in the United States. J Dairy Sci 1982; 65:2194-203. [PMID: 6296209 DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(82)82482-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Bovine leukosis describes lymphatic cancers of cattle. The most common form of this disease occurs in adult animals and is caused by bovine leukemia virus. Infection is widespread in the United States, especially in dairy cattle, but the virus produces tumors in only a small percentage of infected animals. Nevertheless, bovine leukemia virus has been receiving attention from the dairy industry because of its importance in health certification of cattle or semen intended for export. Another source of concern is whether bovine leukemia virus poses any risk to human health. These problems are discussed in the light of recent technological advances in tumor virus research and specifically regarding our current understanding of the biology of bovine leukemia virus.
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Burny A, Bex F, Chantrenne H, Cleuter Y, Dekegel D, Ghysdael J, Kettmann R, Leclercq M, Leunen J, Mammerickx M, Portatelle D. Bovine leukemia virus involvement in enzootic bovine leukosis. Adv Cancer Res 1978; 28:251-311. [PMID: 81603 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60649-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Mussgay M, Kaaden OR. Progress in studies on the etiology and serologic diagnosis of enzootic bovine leukosis. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1978; 79:43-72. [PMID: 206410 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-66853-1_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Kettmann R, Burny A, Cleuter Y, Ghysdael J, Mammerickx M. Distribution of bovine leukemia virus proviral DNA sequences in tissues of animals with enzootic bovine leukosis. Leuk Res 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(78)90004-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mammerickx M, Burny A, Dekegel D, Ghysdael J, Kettmann R, Portetelle D. Comparative study of four diagnostic methods of enzootic bovine leukosis. ZENTRALBLATT FUR VETERINARMEDIZIN. REIHE B. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. SERIES B 1977; 24:733-40. [PMID: 202114 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.1977.tb01047.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Kaaden OR, Frenzel B, Dietzschold B, Weiland F, Mussgay M. Isolation of a p15 polypeptide from bovine leukemia virus and detection of specific antibodies in leukemic cattle. Virology 1977; 77:501-9. [PMID: 193251 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(77)90475-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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