Enhanced delivery of mda-7/IL-24 using a serotype chimeric adenovirus (Ad.5/3) improves therapeutic efficacy in low CAR prostate cancer cells

R. Dash, I. Dmitriev, Z. Z. Su, S. K. Bhutia, B. Azab, N. Vozhilla, A. Yacoub, P. Dent, D. T. Curiel, D. Sarkar, P. B. Fisher

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Abstract

Gene therapy is being examined as a potential strategy for treating prostate cancer. Serotype 5 adenovirus (Ad.5) is routinely used as a vector for transgene delivery. However, the infectivity of Ad.5 is dependent on Coxsackie-adenovirus receptors (CARs); many tumor types show a reduction in this receptor in vivo, thereby limiting therapeutic gene transduction. Serotype chimerism is one approach to circumvent CAR deficiency; this strategy is used to generate an Ad.5/3-recombinant Ad that infects cancer cells through Ad.3 receptors in a CAR-independent manner. In this report, the enhanced transgene delivery and efficacy of Ad.5/3-recombinant virus was evaluated using an effective wide-spectrum anticancer therapeutic melanoma differentiation- associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24). Our data show that in low CAR human prostate cancer cells (PC-3), a recombinant Ad.5/3 virus delivering mda-7/IL-24 (Ad.5/3-mda-7) is more efficacious than an Ad.5 virus encoding mda-7/IL-24 (Ad.5-mda-7) in infecting tumor cells, expressing MDA-7/IL-24 protein, inducing cancer-specific apoptosis, inhibiting in vivo tumor growth and exerting an antitumor bystander effect in a nude mouse xenograft model. Considering the fact that Ad.5-mda-7 has shown significant objective responses in a phase I clinical trial for solid tumors, Ad.5/3-mda-7 is predicted to exert enhanced therapeutic benefit in patients with prostate cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)447-456
Number of pages10
JournalCancer gene therapy
Volume17
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2010

Keywords

  • Coxsackie-adenovirus receptors
  • Mda-7/IL-24
  • PC-3
  • Tropism-modified adenoviruses

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