Cleveland Biolabs Inc., Buffalo, NY, USA.
Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Oncogene. 2018 Jan 25;37(4):439-449. doi: 10.1038/onc.2017.346. Epub 2017 Oct 2.
Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) is considered an attractive target for anticancer immunotherapy. TLR5 agonists, bacterial flagellin and engineered flagellin derivatives, have been shown to have potent antitumor and metastasis-suppressive effects in multiple animal models and to be safe in both animals and humans. Anticancer efficacy of TLR5 agonists stems from TLR5-dependent activation of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) that mediates innate and adaptive antitumor immune responses. To extend application of TLR5-targeted anticancer immunotherapy to tumors that do not naturally express TLR5, we created an adenovirus-based vector for intratumor delivery, named Mobilan that drives expression of self-activating TLR5 signaling cassette comprising of human TLR5 and a secreted derivative of Salmonella flagellin structurally analogous to a clinical stage TLR5 agonist, entolimod. Co-expression of TLR5 receptor and agonist in Mobilan-infected cells established an autocrine/paracrine TLR5 signaling loop resulting in constitutive activation of NF-κB both in vitro and in vivo. Injection of Mobilan into primary tumors of the prostate cancer-prone transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate (TRAMP) mice resulted in a strong induction of multiple genes involved in inflammatory responses and mobilization of innate immune cells into the tumors including neutrophils and NK cells and suppressed tumor progression. Intratumoral injection of Mobilan into subcutaneously growing syngeneic prostate tumors in immunocompetent hosts improved animal survival after surgical resection of the tumors, by suppression of tumor metastasis. In addition, vaccination of mice with irradiated Mobilan-transduced prostate tumor cells protected mice against subsequent tumor challenge. These results provide proof-of-concept for Mobilan as a tool for antitumor vaccination that directs TLR5-mediated immune response toward cancer cells and does not require identification of tumor antigens.
Toll 样受体 5(TLR5)被认为是癌症免疫治疗的一个有吸引力的靶点。TLR5 激动剂,细菌鞭毛蛋白和工程鞭毛蛋白衍生物,已被证明在多种动物模型中具有强大的抗肿瘤和转移抑制作用,并且在动物和人类中都是安全的。TLR5 激动剂的抗癌疗效源于 TLR5 依赖性激活核因子-κB(NF-κB),介导先天和适应性抗肿瘤免疫反应。为了将 TLR5 靶向的癌症免疫治疗扩展到不自然表达 TLR5 的肿瘤,我们创建了一种基于腺病毒的肿瘤内递药载体,命名为 Mobilan,它驱动表达自我激活的 TLR5 信号盒,该信号盒包含人 TLR5 和结构上类似于临床阶段 TLR5 激动剂,entolimod 的沙门氏菌鞭毛蛋白的分泌衍生物。在 Mobilan 感染的细胞中同时表达 TLR5 受体和激动剂,建立了一个自分泌/旁分泌 TLR5 信号环,导致 NF-κB 在体外和体内均持续激活。将 Mobilan 注射到前列腺癌易感的转基因腺癌小鼠(TRAMP)的原发性肿瘤中,导致参与炎症反应和将固有免疫细胞动员到肿瘤中的多种基因的强烈诱导,包括中性粒细胞和 NK 细胞,并抑制肿瘤进展。在免疫活性宿主的皮下生长的同源前列腺肿瘤中,将 Mobilan 注射到肿瘤内,通过抑制肿瘤转移,改善了手术后动物的生存。此外,用辐照的 Mobilan 转导的前列腺肿瘤细胞对小鼠进行疫苗接种,可保护小鼠免受随后的肿瘤挑战。这些结果为 Mobilan 作为一种抗肿瘤疫苗工具提供了概念验证,该工具将 TLR5 介导的免疫反应引导至癌细胞,并且不需要鉴定肿瘤抗原。
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