摘要
Objective: To develop a novel adenoviral vector system, which combines the advantages of the antiangiogenic gene therapy and virus therapy, and to investigate its antitumor activity on lung cancer. Methods: A new kind of viral vector CNHK200, in which the Elb55kDa gene was deleted and the whole Ela gene was preserved, was constructed. Human angiostatin gene Kringle 1-5 (hA) was amplified and inserted into the genome of the replicative virus CNHK200, generating CNHK200-hA. The expression of hA and its effect on lung cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo were studied. Results: The novel vector system CNHK200-hA, just like the replicative virus ONYX-015, replicated in p53-deficient tumor cells but not in normal cells, and thus specifically killed tumor cells. In in vitro experiment, both CNHK200-hA and the non-replicative virus Ad-hA could kill tumor cells but the latter needed 100 times more MOI to achieve the same level of cell killing. In in vivo experiment, the therapeutic effect of CNHK200-hA on human lung cancer A549 xenografts in nude mice was significantly better than that of Ad-hA or that of ONYX-015. Conclusion: CNHK200-hA, which carries the angiostatin gene, has the advantages of specific tumor targeting, high expression of transgene in tumor cells and potent antitumor activity.
Objective: To develop a novel adenoviral vector system, which combines the advantages of the antiangiogenic gene therapy and virus therapy, and to investigate its antitumor activity on lung cancer. Methods: A new kind of viral vector CNHK200, in which the Elb55kDa gene was deleted and the whole Ela gene was preserved, was constructed. Human angiostatin gene Kringle 1-5 (hA) was amplified and inserted into the genome of the replicative virus CNHK200, generating CNHK200-hA. The expression of hA and its effect on lung cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo were studied. Results: The novel vector system CNHK200-hA, just like the replicative virus ONYX-015, replicated in p53-deficient tumor cells but not in normal cells, and thus specifically killed tumor cells. In in vitro experiment, both CNHK200-hA and the non-replicative virus Ad-hA could kill tumor cells but the latter needed 100 times more MOI to achieve the same level of cell killing. In in vivo experiment, the therapeutic effect of CNHK200-hA on human lung cancer A549 xenografts in nude mice was significantly better than that of Ad-hA or that of ONYX-015. Conclusion: CNHK200-hA, which carries the angiostatin gene, has the advantages of specific tumor targeting, high expression of transgene in tumor cells and potent antitumor activity.
基金
This work was supported by the NationalNatural Sciences Foundation of China (No.30572149) andthe National "863" High Technology R & D Project ofChina (No. 2003AA216030).