Abstract
Successful adenoviral (Ad) vector-mediated strategies for breast cancer gene therapy and virotherapy have heretofore been hindered by low transduction efficiency. This has recently been understood to result from a relative paucity of expression of the primary adenovirus receptor, coxsackie-adenovirus-receptor (CAR), on primary tumor cells. To further investigate this issue, we evaluated the expression of CAR on breast cancer cell lines as well as primary breast cancer cells. With the exception of one patient sample, CAR expression was notably higher in the tumor cells from patients compared to CAR expression in the tumor cell lines. Furthermore, we explored CAR-independent targeting strategies to breast cancer tissue by exploring a panel of infectivity-enhanced Ad vectors, which contain CAR-independent targeting motifs for their utility in breast cancer gene therapy and virotherapy. These targeting motifs included Ad 3 knob (Ad5/3), canine Ad serotype 2 knob (Ad5CAV-2), RGD (Ad5.RGD), polylysine (Ad5.pK7), or both RGD and polylysine (Ad5.RGD.pK7), and were tested using the breast cancer tissue slice model, which is the most stringent substrate system available. Of all the tested tropism modified Ad vectors, Ad5/3 exhibited the highest transductional efficiency in breast cancer. These preclinical results suggest that Ad5/3 is the most useful modification to achieve higher clinical efficacy of breast cancer gene therapy and virotherapy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1203-1210 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Cancer Biology and Therapy |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Sto 647/1-1 (to M. A. Stoff-Khalili), NIH Grant 5T32AI0749311 (to Q.L. Mathews), NIH RO1CA93796 (to G.P. Siegal), NIH grant R01-DK063615 (to M. Yamamoto), NIH Grant RO1CA083821, Breast CA Spore 5P50CA89019-04, DOD Idea Development Award W81XWH-05-1-0035 (to D.T. Curiel).
Keywords
- Ad5/3
- Adenovirus
- Breast cancer
- Fiber modification
- Gene therapy
- Model
- Transductional targeting