Novel Immunocompetent Murine Tumor Model for Evaluation of Conditionally Replication-Competent (Oncolytic) Murine Adenoviral Vectors
Autor: | Melinda VanRoey, Karin Jooss, Katherine R. Spindler, Ying Ge, Derek Ko, Betty Li, Michael K. Robinson, Satya Yendluri, Thomas Harding |
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Rok vydání: | 2009 |
Předmět: |
Oncolytic adenovirus
Transgene Immunology Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Genetic Therapy Biology medicine.disease_cause Microbiology Virology Virus Adenoviridae Oncolytic virus Mice Oncolytic Viruses Gene Delivery Immune system Viral replication Neoplasms Insect Science Models Animal medicine Animals Vector (molecular biology) |
Zdroj: | Journal of Virology. 83:3450-3462 |
ISSN: | 1098-5514 0022-538X |
DOI: | 10.1128/jvi.02561-08 |
Popis: | Oncolytic adenoviral vectors that express immunostimulatory transgenes are currently being evaluated in clinic. Preclinical testing of these vectors has thus far been limited to immunodeficient xenograft tumor models since human adenoviruses do not replicate effectively in murine tumor cells. The effect of the immunostimulatory transgene on overall virus potency can therefore not be readily assessed in these models. Here, a model is described that allows the effective testing of mouse armed oncolytic adenovirus (MAV) vectors in immunocompetent syngeneic tumor models. These studies demonstrate that the MAV vectors have a high level of cytotoxicity in a wide range of murine tumor cells. The murine oncolytic viruses were successfully armed with murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (mGM-CSF) by a novel method which resulted in vectors with a high level of tumor-specific transgene expression. The mGM-CSF-armed MAV vectors showed an improved level of antitumor potency and induced a systemic antitumor immune response that was greater than that induced by unarmed parental vectors in immunocompetent syngeneic tumor models. Thus, the oncolytic MAV-1 system described here provides a murine homolog model for the testing of murine armed oncolytic adenovirus vectors in immunocompetent animals. The model allows evaluation of the impact of virus replication and the host immune response on overall virus potency and enables the generation of translational data that will be important for guiding the clinical development of these viruses. |
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