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Efficacy of HSV-TK/GCV system suicide gene therapy using SHED expressing modified HSV-TK against lung cancer brain metastases
oleh: Tomoya Oishi, Masahiko Ito, Shinichiro Koizumi, Makoto Horikawa, Taisuke Yamamoto, Satoru Yamagishi, Tomohiro Yamasaki, Tetsuro Sameshima, Tetsuro Suzuki, Haruhiko Sugimura, Hiroki Namba, Kazuhiko Kurozumi
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Diterbitkan: | Elsevier 2022-09-01 |
Deskripsi
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers, and the number of patients with intracranial metastases is increasing. Previously, we developed an enzyme prodrug suicide gene therapy based on the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-TK)/ganciclovir (GCV) system using various mesenchymal stem cells to induce apoptosis in malignant gliomas through bystander killing effects. Here, we describe stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) as gene vehicles of the TK/GCV system against a brain metastasis model of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We introduced the A168H mutant TK (TKA168H) into SHED to establish the therapeutic cells because of the latent toxicity of wild type. SHED expressing TKA168H (SHED-TK) exhibited chemotaxis to the conditioned medium of NSCLC and migrated toward implanted NSCLC in vivo. SHED-TK demonstrated a strong bystander effect in vitro and in vivo and completely eradicated H1299 NSCLC in the brain. SHED-TK cells implanted intratumorally followed by GCV administration significantly suppressed the growth of H1299 and improved survival time. These results indicate that the TKA168H variant is suitable for establishing therapeutic cells and that intratumoral injection of SHED-TK followed by GCV administration may be a useful strategy for therapeutic approaches.