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JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 17, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12967-019-1771-0
Keywords
Microbubbles; Gene transfer; Prostate cancer; Innate immunity; Adaptive immunity
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- UMMC Intramural Grant
- NIH [CA138510-01]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [5U54GM115428]
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BackgroundGene transfer to malignant sites using human adenoviruses (hAds) has been limited because of their immunogenic nature and host specificity. Murine cells often lack some of the receptors needed for hAds attachment, thus murine cells are generally non-permissive for human adenoviral infection and replication, which limits translational studies.MethodsWe have developed a gene transfer method that uses a combination of lipid-encapsulated perfluorocarbon microbubbles and ultrasound to protect and deliver hAds to a target tissue, bypassing the requirement of specific receptors.ResultsIn an in vitro model, we showed that murine TRAMP-C2 and human DU145 prostate cancer cells display a comparable expression pattern of receptors involved in hAds adhesion and internalization. We also demonstrated that murine and human cells showed a dose-dependent increase in the percentage of cells transduced by hAd-GFP (green fluorescent protein) after 24h and that GFP transgene was efficiently expressed at 48 and 72h post-transduction. To assess if our image-guided delivery system could effectively protect the hAds from the immune system in vivo, we injected healthy immunocompetent mice (C57BL/6) or mice bearing a syngeneic prostate tumor (TRAMP-C2) with hAd-GFP/MB complexes. Notably, we did not observe activation of innate (TNF- and IL-6 cytokines), or adaptive immune response (neutralizing antibodies, INF-+ CD8(+) T cells).ConclusionsThis study brings us a step closer to demonstrating the feasibility of murine cancer models to investigate the clinical translation of image guided site-specific adenoviral gene therapy mediated by ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction.
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