Al-Zaher Ahmed Abdullah, Moreno Rafael, Fajardo Carlos Alberto, Arias-Badia Marcel, Farrera Martí, de Sostoa Jana, Rojas Luis Alfonso, Alemany Ramon
ProCure Program, IDIBELL-Institut Català d'Oncologia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Mol Ther Oncolytics. 2018 Jan 31;8:62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.omto.2018.01.003. eCollection 2018 Mar 30.
To enhance adenovirus-mediated oncolysis, different approaches that tackle the selectivity, tumor penetration, and spreading potential of oncolytic adenoviruses have been reported. We have previously demonstrated that insertion of the internalizing Arginine-Glycine-Aspartic (iRGD) tumor-penetrating peptide at the C terminus of the fiber or transgenic expression of a secreted hyaluronidase can improve virus tumor targeting and spreading. Here we report a new oncolytic adenovirus ICOVIR17K-iRGD in which both modifications have been incorporated. In xenografted A549 tumors in nude mice, ICOVIR17K-iRGD shows higher efficacy than the non-iRGD counterpart. To gain insights into the role of the immune system in oncolysis, we have studied ICOVIR17K-iRGD in the tumor isograft mouse model CMT64.6, partially permissive to human adenovirus 5 replication, in immunodeficient or immunocompetent mice. Whereas no efficacy was observed in the immunodeficient setting due to insufficient viral replication, partial efficacy and a polymorphonuclear and CD8+ T cell infiltrate were observed in the immunocompetent mice. The results indicate that the elicitation of a virus-induced anti-tumoral immune response is responsible for the observed partial anti-tumoral effect.
为了增强腺病毒介导的溶瘤作用,已有报道采用了多种方法来解决溶瘤腺病毒的选择性、肿瘤穿透性和扩散潜力问题。我们之前已经证明,在纤维蛋白的C末端插入内化的精氨酸-甘氨酸-天冬氨酸(iRGD)肿瘤穿透肽或分泌型透明质酸酶的转基因表达可以改善病毒对肿瘤的靶向性和扩散能力。在此,我们报告一种新的溶瘤腺病毒ICOVIR17K-iRGD,其中整合了这两种修饰。在裸鼠异种移植的A549肿瘤中,ICOVIR17K-iRGD显示出比非iRGD对应物更高的疗效。为了深入了解免疫系统在溶瘤中的作用,我们在部分允许人腺病毒5复制的肿瘤同基因小鼠模型CMT64.6中,在免疫缺陷或免疫健全的小鼠中研究了ICOVIR17K-iRGD。由于病毒复制不足,在免疫缺陷环境中未观察到疗效,而在免疫健全的小鼠中观察到部分疗效以及多形核细胞和CD8 + T细胞浸润。结果表明,病毒诱导的抗肿瘤免疫反应的激发是观察到的部分抗肿瘤作用的原因。