Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 148, Issue 1, Pages 128-139Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.33188
Keywords
gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy; intracellular therapy; suicide gene; tumor suicide gene exosomes
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- APVV Grant Agency [APVV-17-0369]
- Slovak League against Cancer
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Exosomes containing suicide gene mRNA secreted from engineered MSCs have the potential to be a specific therapy for tumors and potentially for metastases by inducing cell death in tumor cells without inhibiting the growth of normal cells. This innovative approach utilizes exosomes as a delivery system for suicide genes, showing promising results in cancer treatment.
Recently, we reported about exosomes possessing messenger RNA (mRNA) of suicide gene secreted from mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) engineered to express the suicide gene-fused yeast cytosine deaminase::uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (yCD::UPRT). The yCD::UPRT-MSC exosomes are internalized by tumor cells and intracellularly convert prodrug 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) to cytotoxic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Human tumor cells with the potential to metastasize release exosomes involved in the creation of a premetastatic niche at the predicted organs. We found that cancer cells stably transduced with yCD::UPRT gene by retrovirus infection released exosomes acting similarly like yCD::UPRT-MSC exosomes. Different types of tumor cells were transduced with the yCD::UPRT gene. The homogenous cell population of yCD::UPRT-transduced tumor cells expressed the yCD::UPRT suicide gene and secreted continuously exosomes with suicide gene mRNA in their cargo. All tumor cell suicide gene exosomes upon internalization into the recipient tumor cells induced the cell death by intracellular conversion of 5-FC to 5-FU and to 5-FUMP in a dose-dependent manner. Most of tumor cell-derived suicide gene exosomes were tumor tropic, in 5-FC presence they killed tumor cells but did not inhibit the growth of human skin fibroblast as well as DP-MSCs. Tumor cell-derived suicide gene exosomes home to their cells of origin and hold an exciting potential to become innovative specific therapy for tumors and potentially for metastases.
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